The year of the election in this story doesn’t matter. The events described do.
A demagogic President loses reelection. His scores of frivolous appeals to the courts, on fabricated claims of widespread election fraud, all fail. However, the President has another plan.
He meets in secret with his Secretary of Defense, Joints Chief of Staff, and a few trusted high ranking generals. The President conspires and enlists them in his plan to retain power in defiance of the election results. The United States military will seize the electoral college certificates and thereby prevent Congress from certifying the result. The plan does not require seizing them in all 50 states, just enough states to prevent any certification of results in favor of his opponent. The President hopes to throw the election to the House, where his party has a clear majority.
The effort to seize the electoral college certificates as they are kept in state Capitols fails. Loyalists to America secure them or resist the efforts to take them. The defense of the certificates results in a number of deaths as various elements of the military attempt to use force to take them.
The military leaders involved in the plot are arrested and charged. Some are charged with murder. However, in his last act as President, just hours before leaving office, the President who led the insurrection fully pardons all those who participated in it with him. For some he extracts payments, bribes, in order to secure the pardon.
One would hope that in a just America, where the rule of law prevails, at least the ringleader of this deadly insurrection could be prosecuted. However, under today’s Supreme Court decision, he could not be.
You see, the President acted as Commander in Chief, one of his “core Constitutional powers” that has “absolute immunity” from prosecution. The families of the dead will find no justice in this “republic” led by an effective King above all law.
