If Trump is convicted, Secret Service protection may be obstacle to imprisonment

[jmowreader]

32. This is not how I'm reading it

The law that gives the Secret Service its authority is 18 USC 3056.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3056

Paragraph A reads, "Under the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect the following persons..."

Please note that the word "shall" is not in there.

Secretary Mayorkas could very easily decide that because the Bureau of Prisons has security guards, so long as Trump is kept separate from other prisoners at all times there is no need for Secret Service protection for him as long as he's in jail. This would naturally lead to the conclusion the only place suitable for holding him is ADX Florence, but DU has decided long ago that's where he needs to go. Well...except for those of us who would send him to Gitmo, reopen Alcatraz for him, stand him up against the wall or keelhaul him under a supertanker, but for most of you guys Supermax will do wonderfully.