Also, little pissed the reasoning for the latter was “We don’t want a president to be concerned about criminal culpability because it may stop them from acting!” and I mean, actually, yes, I want our executive to be considering whether they’re breaking the fucking law before acting.
The blythe dismissal of international law by several recent Tory prime ministers is one of my reasons for voting against the the Tories on Thursday. And they too of course have long claimed the mantle of 'the party of Law and Order'.
It’s like “The President is responsible for the execution and enforcement of the laws, so if he has to break a few of those laws to do so, you know, sometimes you gotta kill the patient to cure the disease.”
The “nuclear time bomb will go off if we don’t torture this guy!” remedy was always meant to be getting pardoned by the next Pres if it was really justified, I thought
I remember when we used to think that Supreme Court Justices typically had higher than average intelligence
now we know they merely have higher than average avarice