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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 7 days
idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
Avatar Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 7 days
John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7 days
They don't even need to imagine! The individual literally named in the case is one of the worst people on the planet. He's got a track record of doing or attempting some of the worst shit imaginable. This isn't some distant hypothetical!
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7 days
“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 7 days
the problem is that they might have a hard time transcribing [JUSTICE PUTS FINGERS IN EARS AND SAYS LA LA LA LA LA LA LA]
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Cloud's Strife @jmgreene28.bsky.social · 7 days
Begging Justice Roberts to recall the bygone era called “2017”
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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 6 days
Obama spied on Trump? So what? He was The President. He could do whatever he wanted.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 6 days
No, Democratic presidents have zero authority to do anything that the courts don’t approve, but now they just can’t be criminally prosecuted for it
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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social · 6 days
I bet if Trump prosecuted Obama or Biden, SCOTUS would decide it was for "personal acts" and not "official acts". It's very convenient that they've appointed themselves case-by-case oversight for this particular issue. Kind of the opposite of "justice is blind".
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 6 days
Trump thinks it was his god-given right in 2016 to maintain continuous and illegal contacts, payoff, resources etc with the Russian government, mafia figures, and cutouts, and the Supreme Court has mostly said sure, okay, why not.
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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social · 6 days
Trump is a raging narcissist who thinks he has a god-given right to everything he wants.
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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social · 6 days
Trump has been repeating this so often and so long people believe a) it's true b) it justifies any illegal shit Trump does It really is important to dig out the lies in Trumpland, even though it's a Herculean task..