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Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social |
Also, I will donate $500 to the Heritage Foundation if this historian of the early Republic ever once argued for the necessity of or even mentioned “presidential immunity” before Donald Trump made it up.
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Richard Koenig
@rich-king.bsky.social
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I thought Nixon made it up (?).
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The_Turtle_Moves
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One of the (many) upsetting things I learned from the Trump admin was that apparently there's people who are still trying to avenge Nixon. I honestly thought one of the things we all had in common was an understanding that Tricky Dick was a cartoon villain. Like Hitler and Putin and the KKK
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Rob of Denver
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To no one’s shock, he misapplies (lies, turns to propaganda) the federalist papers to his argument, specifically federalist 70…
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Bennett Gilbert
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Correct. It is not only nowhere in founding materials, denying immunity to the head of state also was a cause of the 1688 English revolution.
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Steuard Jensen
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This probably isn't news to you, but I'm told that a bunch of hard-core conservatives have been firmly in favor of this ever since Nixon said, "when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal", because they see the Watergate scandal as an unjustified attack on a noble President.
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Wandering White Shark, PhD (he/him, still pagan)
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Newt Gingrinch told Trump about Peter. And he said so on NPR... (I AM SHITTING YOU, NOT!!!)
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Fourteen Kittens in a Trenchcoat
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