Mr. President, Your Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Is Ready
Mr. President, Your Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Is Ready
The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.
Trump wouldn't be where he is if media like The NY Times didn't circlejerk his existence. Had the media ignored their cash cow from the start we wouldn't be facing the end of democracy.
Well put. They took the clicks, like the rest them. They took a crook and game show host and made him President and they have never taken an ounce of responsibility.
The abject failure of corporate news in assessing our current situation of befuckededness cannot be overstated.
It's funny (or 'funny' if you prefer) that US Republicans are monarchists instead of republicans.
Remember when they were complaining that Obama was acting like a king? It turns out they like kings after all.
Maybe they're just looking for certain.... Characteristics..... in a King.
iTs a rEpUbLiC nOt a dEmoCraCy.
There's a reason why they keep saying that recently, they don't want democracy. They want to backflip themselves into selecting how leaders are chosen and who gets to choose.
Too bad Biden has repeatedly said he won't use it to his advantage to stop fascism and what he's telling us would be the end of American democracy...
You can't half ass the fight against fascism.
Be a use they'll always do everything they can.
If trump is an existential threat to American democracy, we need to start fucking acting like it.
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions. This is a situation in which I would cheer for someone pulling the ladder up behind them. Use their God-King power to destroy their God-King power. Come on, King Biden.
So I've seen lots of commentary about this ruling, but I kind of assumed that the panic was overblown. After all, the ruling said presidents were only immune for "official acts" but could still be held accountable for "unofficial acts", right? Well fuck, turns out I was wrong.
“In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the president’s motives,” [Chief Justice] Roberts writes. “Such an inquiry would risk exposing even the most obvious instances of official conduct to judicial examination on the mere allegation of improper purpose, thereby intruding on the Article II interests that immunity seeks to protest.”
They're literally saying that there is no way to determine what is an official act and what is not. So Biden could order someone to go shoot Trump, and we couldn't even inquire into if he was acting in an official capacity or not.
Well, agencies have failed, justice has failed, and we expect the military (or some part of it) will also fail next.
A military coup probably won't happen. The federal government is still pretty in line with the people's interest, even if the media makes it seem otherwise.
Somehow “probably won’t happen” is a bit underwhelming. The amount of neo-nazis and assorted relevant flavors in the military is too damned high.
There’s also the practical matter of the Constitution preventing them from law enforcement (which - yeah, i know). I’m saying the odds that it’s us out here alone are . . . well, also, too damned high.
Biden should just shit can the tRump appointed judges. Tell them they have two choices; You resign, or you die.
Pretty sure their timing of releasing this ruling and immediate adjournment was no coincidence. I hope the conservative justices shit bricks the next time they're all in the same room.
Really annoyed with all these articles written as if he's going to be re-elected, or he suddenly skates on his convictions. That's not how this works.
No one believed he would be elected the first time. We have to take this seriously
He's... literally leading in polls for all the swing states that will elect the next president. People that care about democracy are panicking, and for good reason.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In 1977, nearly three years after leaving office in disgrace, President Richard Nixon gave a series of interviews to David Frost, a British journalist.
“Such an inquiry would risk exposing even the most obvious instances of official conduct to judicial examination on the mere allegation of improper purpose, thereby intruding on the Article II interests that immunity seeks to protest.” In other words, the why of a president’s actions cannot be held as evidence against him, even if they’re plainly illegitimate.
Turning to Trump’s attempt to pressure Mike Pence into delaying certification of the Electoral College, Roberts says that this too was an official act.
But more troubling than the court’s interference in the democratic process are the disturbing implications of the majority’s decision, which undermines the foundations of republican government at the same time that it purports to be a strike in defense of the constitutional order.
“The court,” Sotomayor writes, “effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding.” When he uses his official powers in any way, she continues, “he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution.
In their relentless drive to protect a Republican president and secure his power for a future administration, the conservative majority has issued a fundamentally anti-republican opinion.
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