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how do you rebut presumption of immunity? nobody knows. but you can't consider the president's motive in rebutting it or the fact that murder is against the law. doesn't matter if president says to his advisors "I would like to kill rival because I hate them." inadmissible
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it does seem like he could confess to it in the state of the union address and it probably wouldn't be admissible either
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I think this also makes washington dc effectively a law-free zone, the president could just straight-up coup the DC government
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bonus points for having it done in DC or abroad, where there's nobody to bring state charges either
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short of burning down us-east-1 or whatever you're not going to get it all, and if you do get it all you're in "butlerian jihad" levels of data destruction
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I suppose they could drone strike every datacenter they might be stored in but that does seem unlikely to be effective
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creedthoughtsgov.com
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weirdly, they have at no point noticed that if that happens, they are out of a job
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and it was a good chunk of her big gender blog post/manifesto, she clearly has thought about this and thought it important enough to publish
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9. Presidential pardons don't count if they're issued after early voting begins in any state. Any pardon that isn't transmitted from the White House to Congress and made public does not count.
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8. and in case it's not covered by 2), a Vice President elevated by resignation can't pardon the ex-President, and an acting President can't pardon anyone at all.
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4. Conviction for felonies committed in any part while in office shall disqualify the President for any future public office
5. Any judge may not rule on the immunity of the President that appointed them
6. This amendment is self-executing
7. We really mean it
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a galaxy brain idea: could you encode Chevron into law
(yes this runs directly into the SCOTUS buzzsaw, but still)
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Update #8359 from NROL-111 (TOP SECRET)
1. Octopus Pillars
2. Fiery Grotto of Selfies
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every girl has 2 wolves inside of her. the issue is she also has a bag of grain and a chicken inside of her too. she also has a rowboat that can only carry 2 of the 3 types of things inside of her at any given time. how does the girl get to the other side of the river without losing the grain or th
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for example, wills details how yoo tried to argue that the president has an exclusive power to enter the country into war because the “declare” in Article I’s “Congress shall have the power to declare war” actually means that Congress shall have the power to *notify* the country of war.
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“Don’t you think she looks tired?”
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"Don't you think she looks tired?"
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On the same morning, the Court said:
1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor.
2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.
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or their local walmart runs out of stuff
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