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Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social |
important points here.
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Andy Pearlman
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Doesn't the POTUS just go to OLC and ask for an opinion that X is an official act? Yes, assuming OLC is trying to do their job, they say honestly, no, doing a coup is not an official act. But if POTUS has stacked the office, they say yes.
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Steph Sleeper
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Yes and every ruling on official/unofficial takes 4 months so what is the actual point. (Oh.)
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Jonathan Hassid
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The problem is that "official acts" will become whatever the right wing majority on the Supreme Court likes. Anything they dislike will suddenly become "unofficial acts."
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Chris Warren
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Hard cases make bad law. Trump is a very hard case, so this all makes sense.
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Julia Azari
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couple of observations from reading the decision: 1. this is really bad. 2. in practice, the status quo has also been bad, and i'm honestly unsure how much of a departure this is from the status quo. i'm still mad about the lack of accountability for Nixon, George W. Bush etc. ...
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