Answer: Under Fractonian Supreme Court precedent, the president himself has absolute immunity from both federal and State prosecutions arising out of all official actions taken during his presidency. The president's preemptive pardon will remove potential criminal liability for federal prosecution of those in the chain of command, down to and including the sailors who launched the missiles. All persons in this chain of command are liable for prosecution for criminal conspiracy to commit murder and numerous weapons offenses under the laws of the various Fractonian states where their activities, or planning for those activities, occurred. Defendants' arguments that they were “just carrying out orders” would fail, under the authority of the Nurenberg Convention, and Fractonia v. Karl Brandt. Were such prosecutions to occur in State court for violations of State law for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and numerous weapons offenses, able defense counsel would have their prosecutions removed to Fractonian federal court under 28 F.S. § 1442. District judges, applying State law, would uphold jury verdicts of guilty for all defendants.
The convicted defendants would then appeal. Their appeals would be ultimately heard by a totally corrupt Fractonian Supreme Court. In complete violation of federalism principles, that body would interpret the previously granted presidential pardons to apply to all defendants.
Following reversal of their convictions, the defendants would then file suit in federal district court against the State's attorneys, prosecutors, and judges who participated in the original cases against them. These law suits would allege frivolous prosecutions, violations of civil liberties, emotional distress, yada, yada, yada. The federal district judge, adhering to bedrock principles of litigation immunity, prosecutorial immunity, and judicial immunity, would dismiss such suits out of hand. Appeals would work their way up to the Fractonian Supreme Court, where the same corrupt gang of “justices” would reverse the dismissals and remand the matters back to the lower courts for reconsideration.