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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Law Creep
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If Washington had ordered the military (very different concept then) to kill Jefferson, the country would have immediately collapsed.
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Noah
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Yea, a lotta problems with the Constitution that’d be nice to fix, but this isn’t one of them. This is a problem with the court, and can only be fixed by fixing the court.
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BygoneBegotRisk
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But I thought out Supreme Court overlords were “originalists”…
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Buchman
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It's also not like immunity is actually in the constitution.
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Flying Mezerkis
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IANAL But nothing I have understood about this case, the legal arguments or the decision is based on the lack of clarity in the Constitution.
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Els Jones🖤🤍💜🩶
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uggghhh, this is such a bad take--not yours. yes the constitution is vague, but it and the federalist papers--all which judges look at--is pretty fucking clear that no one is above the law. to blame this on the constitution and not 3 wild judges is a helluva take
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Coolbone Minoxidil
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Still needs replaced but yeah ok rewriting the constitution is not the most urgent thing in these conditions
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James Debord
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Also, I'm absolutely fine with the 2A as it was written and intended.
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Pwnallthethings
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Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
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Fuzzy Mike
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Woj
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This supreme court spent months discussing if Biden would take advantage of this ruling and have them killed and once they decided it was safe and he'd chicken out of doing his duty they made the president a tyrant. That's the only thing they spent this time thinking about.
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Brianomite 🧨
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Never, until now
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Warhammerchick
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Yeah, they weren't at all unclear about that.
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Ham Elliot
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I doubt the founders every really considered a Congress elected by the people would tolerate a President's abuse of power to such an extreme extent. They certainly didn't give the courts power to do anything.
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Ian W. Evans
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Hamilton would be pretty stoked, tho
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists
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It's hokum whipped up by cranks playing Air Bud.
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Hexadecim8
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Arguing on the bad faith terms of a group of justices that were never really serious about things like established precedent or “constitutional originalism” cedes ground to people who are actually just cynical political operators at the end of the day (the justices themselves)
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Ostrich, Booster Pack Blueskyer
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Charlie brown had hoes. Source: Originalism, you activist liberal
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Joseph S.
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If there was ever one thing they were clear about, it's this fucking thing. Any fucking person talking about the "founder's opinions" or originalism and supports this opinion is a craven liar and has finally showed their true colors.
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