So, this means Biden could totally just order Trump killed right now and it’d be 100% legal.
Using “I was going to vote for Joe Biden after the immunity ruling, but he refuses to blow up the SC Justices before they overturn gay marriage so I won’t” as a reason now lmao
They literally have no excuses anymore. Everything that democratic voters insist that their guy wanted to do but couldn’t is 100% doable now. With the power of legal assasination given to the presidency, all that shit would now be possible. That dems won’t do it is proof of their lack of interest or conviction in their stated goals
I encourage Joe Biden to gather all the right wing state governors and every single Republican he can for a grand July 4th celebration with an announcement. Tell them he wants to discuss something with immigration and funding from the federal government… that’ll probably get them to show up. Just a big ol’ freedom BBQ in and around the Capitol building.
And then he can do the funniest thing in history
Oh no that would be bad and wrong, he’d have to put Trump on an international terrorism list first, THEN he could do what Obama did and murder Trump and his children with a drone strike
Imagine Matt Miller and Kirby telling the press gaggle that there would be an internal investigation into the alleged drone striking of an ex-president
“It’s tough cookies, folks. Look. Donald Trump wasn’t a good guy. And hey, I get it, and we’re investigating. But you know what? I don’t hear any of you talking about what he did on Jan 6. Did you forget? I didn’t and President Biden didn’t either. It’s a tragic thing that his entire extended family is dead. I agree! But let’s not forget who he was and what he did. It’s real tough, folks. So let the pentagon look into it, and we’ll let you know. Alright anymore questions? No more about Trump.”
Look, at this time it’s impossible for you to know- for anyone to know, what happened at Mar a Lago. Okay? Now, (speaking over the reporter) NOW, the Republicans are saying one thing, and the Pentagon hasn’t completed their investigation. We’re going to wait for the results of that investigation, but what I will say is there’s reason to believe that Mar a Lago was being used to store military hardware.
Misfired hamas missile that came back down and hit mar a Lago. Because it was actually fired from Mar a Lago. Secret hamas base all along.
I’m far from knowledgeable on constitutional law, but skimming the linked ruling, it’s very vague and seems to basically say that the supreme Court gets to decide if something is constitutional or not. So a united executive branch and judicial branch can do whatever they want with impunity.
They say the president has absolute immunity from criminal persecution “for actions within his conclusive and preclu- sive constitutional authority.” And he also has presumptive immunity for “all his official acts.” And ofc I’m sure it’s up to the supreme to decide what qualifies an an official act, whether the presumptive immunity should be upheld, and whether an action is within the presidents “conclusive and precious I’ve constitutional authority”.
Okay so just kill all the Republican court justices first, appoint new ones and have them rule the act an official one, then drone strike Mar-a-Lago. Simple.
giving the biden regime the green light to merc trump legally, but they’d rather give him a second term
if he’s as bad as they say he is, it’s their moral imperative to k*ll him. It’s like how you have to off hitler if you have a time machine.
a MORAL IMPERATIVE to KILL someone? Um sweaty killing is always IMMORAL.
Unless the target is brown
It’s very hard for me to square that idea that trump is an existential threat who must be stopped by any means necessary, and the notion that Biden is allowed to do anything legally.
Obama murdered a 16-year-old who wasn’t even accused of a crime and got away with it, but I guess the rules are different when the victim is Muslim
I tried to explain this to libs back in 2018ish. If Trump is a fascist, why would voting him out do anything? Ya’ll are either being hyperbolic, or you’re being cowards.
Trump is a fascist, but that is because everyone in the U.S. government follows the logic of fascism, because neoliberalism is just fascism without the campy outfits. He just not a systemic-ending fascist.
The issue is he’s an anti institutionalist corporate oligarch, which in a vacuum is neutral and par for the course, but in this case, one of the few things keeping America from completely coming apart at the seams are the institutions who want to make sure arsenic isn’t in kids’ toothpaste and shit.
If Biden gets Trump assassinated by the CIA will it be considered official business?
yeah, the decision says exercises of constitutional authority have immunity. they’re /presumed/ to be official acts. so if assassinations are covered by the president, he’s free to kill off his political enemies.
As commander in chief, ordering military objectives is a constitutionally declared duty of the president so it seems very clear to me as that’s a conclusive constitutional duty. This line seems relevant: “[…] President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclu- sive constitutional authority”
the obvious rules based liberal solution to trump is fucking divest presidential powers, instead of giving even more expansive executive
This is why you all need to vote. If we had blue judges in the Supreme Court this would have never happened. As long as you vote we will have democracy back in about 300 years.
I know they won’t do it, but if Dems had any guts they would just explicitly challenge Marbury v. Madison, and just start ignoring Supreme Court decisions. You know the right wingers would do exactly that if they were in a similar predicament with a 6-3 liberal majority court.
the SC completely invented their power from whole cloth and (almost) every subsequent administration has just gone with it
Democracy
sorry i hated learning government in school, i know the president could pack the court but you’re telling me they aren’t even obligated to honor their decisions and ignore them?
The supreme court has no explicit constitutional mechanism or authority to enforce their decisions, so they literally made one up, the idea that when they declare a law unconstitutional it just suddenly stops being a law.
Everyone just goes along with it because the whole country was designed from the ground up to prevent good things and only elect people who want to prevent good things. But there’s literally no reason the rest of the government couldn’t just go “thanks for your opinion but we don’t gaf”
