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Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social |
it says a great deal that roberts has time in his majority opinion to mock the dissents for their "tone of chilling doom" but can't actually manage to rebut this hypo. because he can't
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Grudgie the Whale
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They seem to enshrine the exact thing they claim is dangerous bsky.app/profile/grud...
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dorian
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does the supreme court ever issue errata to their opinions?
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Pwnallthethings
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The only light at the end of the tunnel for every version of this hypo, and it is a very dim one, involves that president doing the act, being charged anyway after leaving office, the government losing on TvUS grounds but appealing it back up to SCOTUS anyway, and them overruling it
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Connor Tapp
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the most disturbing thing about the Roberts court isn’t that they’re partisan hacks (though they obviously are, and it sucks) but that they are actual morons with big vocabularies and expensive taste in wine
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KC Momkin
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The opinion wasn't written to clarify things for the lower courts based on a good faith interpretation of Constitution (which they swore to uphold). It was written to "legally" undo Constitutional limits on the president that are the bedrock of our system. By making accountability extraordinarily...
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Jay Marose
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They could’ve have delivered the entire decision as Roy Cohn would, “Good luck proving it.”
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austin
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he mocks the dissent because of course they can always make up a rule to avoid some absurd or universally undesired outcome (framing the dissent as overwrought, despite the merits), but this ruling bolsters their power not to in order to achieve a desired end result. another power play
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Paul Crider
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It's just gaslighting.
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