You could always sanitize your history and apply for a job with project 2025 and go in as a chaos agent or a mole. That needs to be a thing, but on the down low.
Does that qualify as John Lewis “good trouble?” Disrupting Heritage Foundation should line up pretty well with the cause of civil rights.
Read at least the first paragraph of the sections in the 1000 page project25 document and you will see that SCOTUS is creating the legal framework for its execution. Just read a little of it, I dare all of you.
Heritage Foundation actually boasts about having done it before for Reagan.
Nixon got a blanket pardon before ever being charged. Maybe Trump could just pre-pardon everyone in his administration. New employees can receive forms notifying them that they are automatically pardoned for any crimes they may be asked to commit.
Not that this court will give a crap but the Supreme Court early on expressly held otherwise—which of course will show again that the court’s new reading of presidential accountability is antithetical to that at the time of the founding. (We know that but still.) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
I mean it's all just up the fuck in the air now isn't it? There is effectively no law, a point I intend to make when I harangue my congress people about this. I'm starting to inform people as of this moment, I obey laws of decency and morality 'cause I'm civilized. I won't comply with Project 2025
Presumably the justices will also conclude that they, too, enjoy absolute immunity for any conduct while they are on the Court, regardless of corrupt intention, bribes, villainy, etc
Qualified Immunity for the police is already perfectly structured for this. Combine the two and you have an easy framework for a "logical" decision along that line.
it encourages (explicitly, in trump’s case) mafia rules, with cabinet heads and bosses under them finding creative ways to please the boss and press their own agendas
With the overturn of Chevron & its intended destruction of the regulatory state, & the immunity decision, I've been thinking a lot about Kershaw's concept of "working toward the Fuhrer" - privately loyal guys who aren't given explicit orders, but instead allowed to anticipate, & then given cover.
So much of what we know about Trump's criminality and corruption came from criminal investigations of his officials.
That won't happen again.
Roberts will make some infinite regress quip and waggishly declare that Trump v. U.S. requires "immunity all the way down."
We’re already there.
In the same stroke, the court affirmed that the president has complete discretion to fire any executive employees, even if it is because they refused to commit crimes, and has unfettered (federal) pardon rights.
And why only the president and his minions? Governors, members of Congress, even your local city council all take actions that may be controversial and therefore must have total immunity to be able to function.
