• JakenVeina@midwest.social
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    2 hours ago

    We talking about the one that says the President can’t be prosecuted for official acts?

    The thing most people miss about that decision is that it’s not a power grant to the Presidency. It’s a power grab by the Supreme Court. They conveniently don’t define what counts as an “official act” that the President can’t be prosecuted for, so that whenever it comes up again, we just end up right back at the Supreme Court for them to decide what’s “official” and what isn’t. And we know their game plan on that kinda thing, from everything else in the past decade, they’ll pull a bunch of old nonsense out of their ass to rule whichever way they please, and then say at the and “this decision is a unique outcome of unique circumstances” or whatever, so they’re free to rule completely differently next time.

    The charitable interpretation of the ruling is “the way to get a President to stop doing bad shit is for Congress to impeach them” so in theory, that’s still a check on Presidental power, but we all know how much Congress is loathe to use any amount of power to do anything, what little they haven’t abdicated already.

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    Yes, that’s fundamentally what the ruling means.

    The U.S. President can no longer be prosecuted for “presidential duties”, which can be defined arbitrarily.

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      So basically you are telling me that I can hold a press conference (presidential right or dutie) and tell the public or world that he is about to cheat on his wife with a 16 year old girl scout after this meeting? Almost like Wag The Dog alluded to.? And go one about her name her parents where they live and what their parents do?

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    If POTUS ignores a SCOTUS ruling then the Justice Department is tasked with taking action against the elements of the administration that violates/ignores the ruling.

    Now whatever that is worth with this administration, let the games begin.

    Also that would be something that would get the POTUS impeached. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

    Republicans neutered that under Clinton

    If the POTUS actually gave a shit about the US or wasn’t a convicted felon, 36 times over, they would make sure it never came to that. That isn’t the type of shit anyone with any sense would allow to happen.

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      If a normal Pres got in after him how could he setback or rollback the SCOTUS ruling so other Pres don’t end up like out current DOUCHE.

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        So the POTUS cant roll it back a SCOTUS ruling.

        The POTUS executes the ruling. Hence the word executive.

        What the next POTUS will do is have some agency’ s lawyers interpret the ruling and turn that into actions and or lines of business for the agency they are part of.