Yes. That’s what they’d do if they simply that goal in mind with zero regard for law or scruples or precedent or …
And meanwhile they’d not rule while Biden is still Pres, lest he choose to take his newly conferred absolute immunity and use it to order the slaughter of the lunatic fringe Reactionary Right.
SCOTUS certainly does seem to be helping Trump directly.
Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, said Friday it’s clear that the Supreme Court, which has operated with a comfortable conservative majority since Trump’s presidency, is doing the ex-president’s bidding.
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Tribe said, realistically, an appropriate time for the court to reach a decision on Trump would have been sometime in December, and Trump’s trial would’ve been completed by now.
Instead, it’s taken the Supreme Court more than twice the time to rule on Trump’s immunity—a matter an appeals court comprehensively rejected—than it took to rule on the much more complex United States vs. Richard Nixon case, which took 54 days.
What’s more, the arguments in Trump’s case were so outlandish that it should have been easy for the court to dispatch with them quickly, one former Supreme Court law clerk said this week. - SOURCE
That specific speculation seemed crazily partisan a while ago. But the continuing delays make the concerns increasingly reasonable to me.
I have no personal experience in the military.
But my job brings me in contact with a fair number of senior officers, mostly Colonels. And I find them to be bright and thoughtful people, all that I have known. They might lean right, but none of them have ever exhibited to me what I would call an authoritarian tendency.
Just anecdotal, I realize.
Ahem.
Do any of y’all that were so dismissive of my raising this improbable subject for discussion feel like dialing back some of the disdain now that the Supreme Court has officially taken a step into the outer territories of Batshit-Crazy? Maybe knock off one of those zeroes?
Not me.
Not really. Look, before the decision a sitting president was already immune for all intents and purposes. The only recourse was to Impeach him.
And the decision only applies to Official acts.
Not a zero.
OK, but you would have added a couple of zeroes if the SC had come through with the most anodyne, vanilla, leftish, anti-immunity decision we can imagine, right?
I am currently more terrified of the SC’s tropism toward supporting fascism in the U.S. than I was last week, which is saying something.
Yeah, they can say anything that they want. Good luck trying to enforce it.
I never said that the current Supreme Court is not a menace. I merely said that your scenario was apocalyptic fiction. The gulf between that is as large as your hyperbolizing.
Supreme Court legitimacy was already hanging by a thread after McConnel’s light treason when he refused to give Merrick Garland a vote. Multiple unequivocally bad rulings were made saying racism wasn’t a thing in the south anymore, corruption is only when a briefcase full of money is exchange prior to a favor, unlimited money in politics is free speech to name a few.
The repeal of Roe v Wade signaled to me the that the Supreme Court had definitely veered into illegitimacy, disregarding precedent like that…based on what? The bible? Founders wept!
I’m afraid we’re too much in denial to accept what has happened. Even low-information voters agree this supreme court is the worst in 40 years, and they are under-estimating how bad it is. It’s probably the worst in the past 70 years. Maybe longer.
The insane anti-science stance of not protecting abortion for women as a human right or weakening environmental protection laws, pollution laws and all agencies who are already been weak and captured by special interests are beyond the pale. Giving presidents immunity for breaking the law? Just to protect their favorite felon? Utterly nuts, as the dissent noted.
Instead of a golden age of information and learning, it feels like we’re living in a golden age of grifting and conning.
It goes a lot deeper than that. The president is now near legally immune from any action he/she takes while president. The hill to climb to make them legally accountable is almost insurmountable given the recent SCOTUS decision.
Do you really think the recent decision was just saying keep doing things like always?
I have to agree. Corrupt SCOTUS and some of congress will say that if he (let’s face it, this is for Trump) did it while president, it’s an official presidential act.
SCOTUS just made bribes legal by calling them gratuities. Phuuuulease. Clarence must be angling for a boat/yacht.