Popehat: “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

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

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

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!

“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

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]

Begging Justice Roberts to recall the bygone era called “2017”

Obama spied on Trump? So what? He was The President. He could do whatever he wanted.

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

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".

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.

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..

Donald Trump is out there this very week indulging in extreme hypotheticals about what should happen to his enemies, and Roberts thinks they should become practical realities asap.

imagining a hypothetical scenario where a president clearly didn't have immunity and had an incentive to cling to power by force, unlike in the case in front of me

I realize we've all been overusing the word gaslighting but to me the word that best describes this is gaslighting

Setting aside that the entire principle of American government rests on the idea that an official will abuse whatever powers you grant them unless restrained by a credible threat of accountability. A system that depends on the good will of the executive to work is already something else.

Ken are you inquiring into the president’s motives again, silly? That’s not admissible! Come along now, you’re late for your rendition.

i think the majority genuinely believes the stolen election lie and that trump and conservatives in general are the victims

That's absurd. We're the stupid ones. They're the ones getting suitcases of money.

And yet they purposely wouldn't consider the facts, the man, and the ACTUAL case before them. Instead, they are engaged in hypotheticals about future Presidents and hypothetical sham prosecutions and hypothetical timid Presidents who may hypothetically hold back bold & decisive action when needed.

After being charged with involvement in the insurrection by a state supreme court, making them say no, congress needs to make that law in order to enforce it, but also he's immune from it anyways.

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