In my dark fantasy, John Woo (of the famed torture memo) would be taken and waterboarded until he confesses to kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, selling nuclear secrets to Nambia, and masterminding 9/11.
I would go with “imprisoned” instead of “killed,” but yes, that’s the basic idea.
As he should be. Do your research, sheeple!
I shudder to think what you’d do to John Yoo.
He would herald him for his groundbreaking work in the Hong Kong action film genre.
Yes that. John Woo never made a typo.
And at what point would a flock of pigeons be released to flutter up dramatically in the background?
Trump has claimed both that Trump has done nothing wrong and is innocent, and also claimed that Biden is a criminal. Yet Trump is pushing for presidential absolute immunity which Trump does not need, as Trump has done nothing wrong, and gives Biden a get out of jail free card for all his criminal activities.
Full and complete presidential immunity for anything Trump has done in the past, present or future.
Jail for Biden now because he had done crime things to be detailed in two weeks.
Trump And The Magat’s see nothing wrong whatsoever with these two statements.
As I recall it was mostly Roberts who suggested that the case pushed back down to the lower court (effectively delaying it past the election). My feeling is that his primary goal is to keep the federal judiciary out of politics as much as possible. He doesn’t want to become kingmaker either by knocking Trump off the ballot or incarcerating him during the election. So he is kick everything he can down the road.
On the other hand I don’t think that he much likes Trump. So I bet that once the election is over they will have a ruling explicitly codifies the general rule that you don’t indict a sitting president, and carefully lays out a limited set of national security related powers that would be exempt from prosecution once they leave office, but which would not cover anything Trump tried to do.
That *is* getting involved in politics though.
The SC has done the absolute maximum that they could have done to postpone this trial. Firstly rejecting the case when Jack Smith requested they hear it and waited for it to bubble up through the lower court. Then they pushed it to the end of their schedule, and asked for oral arguments, then have pushed their decision timeline to the last possible date.
And all on a legal argument that all legal experts I’ve seen have said is completely preposterous on its face. Even the SC could not hold their noses long enough to discuss the merits of the case, they had to insist – completely in contradiction to normal court policy – on only discussing abstractions and not the actual case on the docket.
The SC didn’t need to get involved; the lower court ruling was very well reasoned. They have chosen to get involved, and tried to help Trump to the best of their ability.
This is what I don’t understand - I can understand them wanting a president who shares their own political opinions. What I can’t understand is them specifically wanting Trump rather than any other possible Republican nominee. If they had done things differently, earlier, maybe someone else would have been the nominee. Maybe someone who did actually agree with them rather than someone who really does not have any ideology.
Thank you. Your entire summary is exactly on point. How the SCOTUS has manipulated this decision is one of the dirtiest things I’ve ever seen them do.
How about a demonstration of just how bad this is, but that also lets Biden appear in a better light? Biden has the military round up all the SC justices, and has them taken to the Supreme Court itself, where he, at gun point, forces them to issue a new ruling indicating that the old ruling was batshit insane, and has been rescinded in its entirely.
Then Biden pardons himself on the basis of his actions being “legal” at the time he took them.
And “official”!! Don’t forget, they must be “official” actions!!
“I was led astray by bad influences; those Supreme Court justices with their “Everything’s legal so long as you don’t get caught” and their dirty dancing and their smoking! Oh, my mother would be so disappointed to see how low I’ve fallen, to consort with such ragamuffins.”