Sounds like SCOTUS ought to agree with that reasoning. Plus, it leaves an opening for Biden to appoint a real Justice that won’t do the bidding of billionaire handlers.
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Especially after Joe’s demonstrated he’s willing to have them shot if they don’t. >.>
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I wanted to go to the Calvinball championship, but they keep changing the date!
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Article II, paras. 2-4, plus the 12th Amendment. It’s not his fucking job to decide how the states elect their electors.
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That’ll have to be litigated and go back to the Supreme Court.
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Sotomayor:
When [the president] uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune.
Biden needs to do this.
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Correct. But Roberts says otherwise.
Roberts trumps the Constitution in this ruling.
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This would stop all the debate headlines then…
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I used to think “Supreme Court” meant highest in the land.
TIL it just means a court covered in sour cream and diced tomatoes.
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Try to jibe this with overturning Chevron. Judges get to decide policy, but the President can officially do whatever the President wants.
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I am hearing analysis that tRump will be immune (only for him) moving forward. That anytime he consults with his DOJ that that will be an official act even if it’s used for illegal means. That sounds completely anathema to the law in its current form. It sounds like “Yes, we will let this crappy ex-reality TV star be able to whatever he wants he wants because he’s a Republican so there!”
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This is why the oligarchy must die.
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The Supreme Court has made our system unworkable, possibly even unsalvageable.
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Roberts just needs the benefit of additional briefing before he can decide whether trump beats the Constitution. He does not actually grant immunity, just kicks the can down the endlessly appealable road.
The cynicism really is astounding.
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“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
— John W. Dean (@JohnWDean) July 1, 2024
Richard Nixon, 1974
Affirmed, US Supreme Court, 2024
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No, the decision gives all decisions about presidential criminality to the supreme court, which as the dissents point out make SCOTUS a completely political/partisan body. it is not cynical, it is about paving the way for christofascism.
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It’s not political rivals that he needs to go after, it’s partisans wearing robes that are tearing the country apart.
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He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
Sound like official acts to me …
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Could do a lot more…remove six supreme court justices. Get rid of every member of the Federalist and Heritage Society, remove several members of Congress… Could be fun…
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The bit that “even if the action is illegal, you can’t look at motive or discussion about commuting the illegal act” is truly fucked up. This is a ruling that flys up its own ass so far that it makes Bush v Gore seem like a fount of jurisprudence restraint and perfect logic.
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