• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    It depends on if he’s gonna get granted diplomatic immunity or not, and even then it’s not like the feds have been very serious about trials lately. According to the constitution, everyone under US jurisdiction has constitutional rights like right to public defense and a trial by jury. By definition everyone in US soil except foreign diplomats and enemy combatants are within US jurisdiction, thus they’re supposed to have constitutional rights. But given how this current (and past) admin are kinda loose with what kind of trials they give foreign citizens on US soil, I’m not holding my breath. And I don’t really know what kind of precedent there is for prosecution in regards to foreign heads of state given criminal trials on US soil. It’s only happened like what, twice?

    Actually now that I type all that out I have to wonder if all the ICE raids and deportations were like trial runs of how to prosecute foreign citizens without all that pesky litigation.