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Sarah Posner@sarahposner.bsky.social |
Just started reading the immunity opinion and it is *so* striking how Roberts emphasizes this is the first time a former president has been criminally prosecuted, addressing it very antiseptically and without reference to the first time a president tried to block the peaceful transfer of power.
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Benny6Toes
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"Never before has a president been criminally prosecuted! It's an incredibly novel case! We never could have expected it! Is it justified? Who can say! Certainly not we, the neutral arbiters of law and order, who are charged with such things. It is unknowable because this is so incredibly novel!"
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HBSteveB
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Roberts pathetic written opinion reads like something a mediocre college student would write.
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Taco Avenger
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The Pearl Clutcher Court
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Mark Hamilton
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Perhaps he needed to ask himself why this particular president was the first to feel that he needed immunity.
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Norbizness
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You and your "wild hypotheticals" (how the majority treats the dissent later on)
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RDS (formerly shawphd)
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It’s so painfully clear that legal issues are entirely academic to him He has no fear that any of his decisions might affect *him*
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Sarah Posner
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"certain tape recordings" (we won't dwell on what those were and we're now kind of sad about that precedent)
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Michael Kohler
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I didn't think it possible that anyone would beat out Taney for worst Chief Justice ever, but here we are. Fitting, since I also didn't think anyone could beat Buchanan and Johnson for worst POTUS but that record was shattered as well.
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Howdini
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