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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social |
When I say the Supreme Court went beyond law, I don’t mean that I disagree with their interpretation of any legal text. I mean their immunity grant isn’t based in any. The Constitution does not address it either way. They invented new powers from nothing.
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DemonNinjaLlama
@demonninjallama.bsky.social
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Which is why this decision is illegitimate.
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Popehat
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My favorite part of the opinion is where Roberts, reacting to Jackson pointing that out, says “yeah, but so what? We do that all the time.”
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Penny Rosenberg
@pennyrosenberg.bsky.social
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I mean, the wholesale creation of the “major questions doctrine” should have warned us. 🤷♀️
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Flying Pace
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Would you agree it's treason?
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Paul from Connecticut
@pcity90.bsky.social
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But, but…Article 1, sec. 3!
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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”
@legalminimum.bsky.social
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I honestly wonder if they thought they were doing this: we like Trump but not the way he’s talking about arresting Biden; we need to make that impossible while he does everything else we (are paid to) authorize; also, what Trump did might be illegal but wasn’t that big a deal.
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Paul Craig
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Thank you for this.
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The chicken lady
@chickenlady.bsky.social
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But It *IS*! Their immunity is based on – the Russian one. Perhaps you might not have looked far enough... It is notable that Putin did the same 2d after the US election in 2020. Notable:fake electors were in place. As well as the plans for violence: kidnapping,shooting of Pelosi et alii
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travelincatdoc, dvm jd
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Whatever happened to "strict constructionists"?
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Casmilus
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Ironic since the long-running conservative critique of Roe was that it invented a right to privacy not stated in the Constitution (allegedly)
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