Are political potshot allowed in IMHO?

[Saint_Cad]

Historical myths debunked. Someone brought up President Grant getting a speeding ticket in his carriage and it is heading off the rails about Trump & SCOTUS & official acts & carte blanche &c.

@LSLGuy

True, but trump driving a car would be. Or so spake SCOTUS. Once l’etat cest moi, everything is an official act; yes, even pooping.

@Little_Nemo

I’ll speculate that the current Supreme Court chose to create an ambiguous standard that it could interpret as it wishes. Actions done by a Republican President will be deemed “official acts” that are covered by legal immunity while actions done by a Democratic President will be deemed to fall outside of this protection and subject to criminal charges. I feel they’ve intentionally established IOKIARDI as a legal precedent.

Dr Deth called this out

@DrDeth

No politics please. The story about Grant is fine, modern day SCOTUS should perhaps be in P&E? Thanks

And immediately after Puzzlegal has

@puzzlegal

nevermind

So did he report it and it was deemed ok? Or are those even related? Did Puzzlegal think it was not derailed enough yet? Did DD even report it? I have no clue hence this thread.