Democrat floats theory Biden could dispatch military to 'take out' conservative justices under immunity ruling

A California lawmaker questioned if President Biden could send in the military to "take out" conservative Supreme Court justices and be immune from punishment in light of Monday's presidential immunity decision.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., floated the theory as a hypothetical scenario while on MSNBC reacting to the Supreme Court decision handed down in Trump v. United States.

The ruling that a president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office has infuriated Democrats. The decision has significant implications for former President Trump, whose prosecution on charges related to Jan. 6 and alleged 2020 election interference spurred the Supreme Court to hear the case.

Lofgren referenced past controversial comments from Trump to suggest that the ruling could give him "wide range" to make changes to the Constitution, incite mob violence and not accept the results of the election.

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"So we’ve got a problem here. If he cannot be accountable – if any president cannot be held accountable under the laws that exist, that’s a complete departure from our history," she argued.

"I guess, you know, theoretically, President Biden, acting within the scope of his official duties, could dispatch the military to take out the conservative justices on the court, and he’d be immune," she continued, posing the question to MSNBC legal analyst, former top prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, Andrew Weissmann.

This followed other startling theories in the dissenting opinion from the liberal members of the court in Monday's ruling.

"The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the