Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
On the bright side, this is a green light for Biden to de-classify every part of every investigation into Trump, expose all his tax returns and private messages, seize all his assets as part of a brand new investigation into his connections with Russia.....
He'd have to fire Garland first though.
Translation: If Trump had just used his "official" power to throw a coup, and overthrow the Constitution, then this SCOTUS would have said that its A-Okay. If Trump takes office again, he won't leave, and he will point to this decision to justify all his aggrandizements of power to stay in office.
So to be clear: if the us-president (as of now: Joe Biden) orders a navy seals team to kill his oponnent (as of now: Donald Trump), he is immune.
If I were Trump, I would upgrade my Bodyguards...
Sure, but he could pardon them. The sad thing is, if Biden did this, he would lose a lot of voters and probably lose. While Trump, doing shit like that, would not. That is what being a fsdcist is all about: Enyoing abuse if power as long as the abuser is on your side.
It's really like a cult - sad to say, also here in europe. You cannot reason with the fanfolk of the extremists.
The reason: Fear and anxiaty, because the way we live has to chwnge. And the right extremists know how to play on those emotions
I find myself thinking about how , upon Trump's first election, we were told by all the cool heads that were guardrails, norms, cabinet and staff, etc., that would hold him in check.
Feels so... quaint.
