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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
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Roman Vilgut
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So to be clear: if the us-president (as of now: Joe Biden) orders a navy seals team to kill his oponnent (as of now: Donald Trump), he is immune. If I were Trump, I would upgrade my Bodyguards...
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Fioko
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Sounds like Biden should give Seal Team 6 a ring
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C.V. Danes
@cvdanes.bsky.social
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Having Donald Trump arrested and sent to Gitmo as an enemy of the state? Immune.
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Robert Wood
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Doesn't this essentially authorize Biden to have Trump assassinated?
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Puffin
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Personally I think a presidential writ of attainder is not within official discretion but what do I know?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of...
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@ridder.bsky.social
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I find myself thinking about how , upon Trump's first election, we were told by all the cool heads that were guardrails, norms, cabinet and staff, etc., that would hold him in check. Feels so... quaint.
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Skip Ashseed
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On the bright side, this is a green light for Biden to de-classify every part of every investigation into Trump, expose all his tax returns and private messages, seize all his assets as part of a brand new investigation into his connections with Russia..... He'd have to fire Garland first though.
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Denise
@zunzie.bsky.social
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Every time I think it can't get worse it gets worse. God, where are we headed?
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WAP
@wetasspword.bsky.social
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Yeah that's all stuff that was already happening in the past with presidents
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James Downie
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Sotomayor: "In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law." Happy Fourth, everyone!
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Jason the Warrenator 🏴
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Yep they have created a Dictator or Monarch to rule 300 million Americans and overseas interests !! WTAF !
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Buttbird
@buttbird.bsky.social
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Interesting
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moss 🍉
@mossen.bsky.social
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the use of the word King here is important.
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Uglesett
@uglesett.bsky.social
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Ok, so if Biden _really_ wanted to appoint, say, six new supreme court judges...
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Little Brown Eyed Girl
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@jdllama.bsky.social
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Translation: If Trump had just used his "official" power to throw a coup, and overthrow the Constitution, then this SCOTUS would have said that its A-Okay. If Trump takes office again, he won't leave, and he will point to this decision to justify all his aggrandizements of power to stay in office.
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Gonzai
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The Court just authorized another Night of Long Knives.
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