Trump could tell the military to kill a political opponent under the Supreme Court's groundbreaking presidential immunity ruling, an attorney has told Newsweek.Greg Germain, a business attorney and law professor at Syracuse University in New York, said that he concurred with Supreme Court judge, Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote a scathing dissent in which she warned that the Trump immunity ruling would allow a president to kill off political rivals.
The ruling means that special counsel Jack Smith cannot proceed with core allegations in the 2020 election interference case—or must at least defend their use in future proceedings before the trial judge.The case focuses on Trump's actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, such as creating false slates of pro-Trump electors in states he had lost to President Joe Biden.