Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
Yes it does. It makes perfect sense when you realize Roberts wants the Republican candidate for President to win the election. Trump being convicted of serious felonies would have imperiled that outcome, so you get this.
For a time Roberts seemed to worry about his legacy, but that is now far in the past.
It is a 3 minutes til molatovs time in the US, and I fear that shooting members of the Federalist society might be overdue.
I hate this court so much and even I am astonished by this case. It writes new provisions into Art 2 of the constitution that were unnecessary to decide the case at hand and that cannot be repealed by legislative action or even undone without a new case of presidential law breaking before the court
- I agree that it was judicial overreach
- However, letting courts review constitutionality of law as well as executive branch actions is a good thing that should've been in the Constitution, and is kind of implied by having a Supreme Court.
It is also important to note that the 3/4s of the states contain ones with less population than a medium large city. Wyoming has as much power as California in the constitutional amendment process.
Very true and I have plenty of objections to the amendment process. But the point is that rewriting the constition normally does—and should—require something more than 6 people who watch too much Fox News just wanting something
Don’t be silly! We’ve always had an enabling act! It’s why we celebrate our founding fathers giving the president absolute power every July fourth.
(Yes, sarcasm!)
Rebalance the court and have them sua sponte revisit it. They basically make their own rules anyway, nothing to stop them from doing it other than tradition, and the FedSoc bloc doesn't pay any attention to that stuff anyway if it stands in the way of what they want.
I have a hard time seeing the libs doing that. A law passed by Congress regulating executive abuse/corruption would be better than not having one, so I think Dems should do that first. Then maybe the administration that signs it could engineer a test case (get a parking ticket or something idk)
That assumes any law regulating the presidential abuses would be in direct contravention of this ruling, which I think it would have to be. Anyway you could get it overturned that way and I think it's an easier path to get lib jurists on board
The Court has never, in the past, reopened cases and revisited its own prior rulings sua sponte. But it's never done a lot of things that seem to be happening right now. And Congress could arrange to request reconsideration if they wanted to, at least as legitimately as... whatever *this* is.
That would be fine by me! But even if Dems come around to court expansion, I find it hard to see that happening. I think comprehensive legislation regulating executive abuses followed by an engineered test case is probably the way to go about it
🔥🇺🇸🔥 In the face of Monday's #treasonous#SCOTUS' presidential immunity ruling, this #July4th#IndependenceDay is MUCH diminished. We have a new monarch called the "President." King George III must be 🤣🤣🤣 laughing his ass off in his grave. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Steph
Maybe you can think about how you're gonna explain this period to her later when she's old enough. Maybe that won't help her but it might help you? I find I never run out of people to blame but that only helps the internals so much bsky.app/profile/bosh...
Where we're at now: Everybody go vote and hope these fascists don't overturn it on equally specious grounds....
And I keep coming back to Bush v Gore. That never should've been tolerated, but nobody had the guts to stand up to them. Seems like exhibit A in "how we got here." Such a bad scene.
I was doing my morning routine - walking the dog, throwing disc golf discs in the park - and I threw one pretty wonky and had to walk way out of my way to go retrieve it when I was suddenly gripped with frustragestion and yelled out "WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO???"
Thankfully, I was alone.
Me too. There is just no way around it. It’s official that the corrupt, illiberal rot infecting conservatism goes all the way to the top. Most of us have been assuming it for years, but now it’s unmistakably as bad as we feared. Hopefully the apathetic half of our country starts paying attention.
