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Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social |
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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Filipe Campante
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I guess the fact that they remain the “ultimate arbiter” is exactly what will allow the true objective to be achieved: immunity for Republican presidents only…
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@topperskid.bsky.social
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Reading Coll’s: Achilles Trap, and we can’t afford stupid presidents like W & Trump. Biden may not be brilliant, but he is ‘Ike’ careful in his use of power.
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Julia Azari
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in practice, presidents have been enjoying a lot of immunity. This codifies it in a way that's quite alarming in the abstract, but even more alarming in the case considered. The decision references Trump's discussions with Pence about trying to interfere with the EC vote counting as "official"
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