Not anymore it doesn't. Sounds like just having a few people show up in black robes and telling SCOTUS they've been placed there is totally legal now as long as it's an official order.
It isn't subject to criminal prosecution but that doesn't mean it actually will do anything. SCOTUS didn't say they'd rubber stamp anything a president did, just that he can't be prosecuted. Those justices would have no authority and no lower courts or states would listen to them.
Says who? The Court? Congress, who has to get it enforced by The Court? The Court that’s had 7 more Justices seated? Is it criminal he didn’t get their advice and consent? Who’s gonna stop him? The Court?
Arrest 6 of them, install 6 new ones, have them issue an opinion that the POTUS has a fucking scope of official duty that makes defeating the checks and balances on the executive by other branches outside the official scope of office, cite the incident as proof.
His accomplishments in those 50 years also objectively made everything they touched worse and ceded unnecessary ground to lying fascists he bewilderingly believed were forthright people. He will go down as the prime example of how to foment a reactionary right: feckless, self-defeating moderates.
Oh absolutely! His greatest accomplishment being the "crime bill"? A massive tool of oppression? Trying to meet in the middle with evil people just makes you also evil.
Republicans can be ahead on a razor thin margin and do pretty much whatever they want, but Democrats are perpetually hamstrung without a supermajority.
Also the failed ACA repeal. The 2021-2023 D majority was *much* more effective than the 2017-2019 R majority; it’s just that democrats have higher aspirations
All aspirations look high when the GOP is only interested in judicial capture and funneling money to military contractors. I want a party that’ll aspire to jail billionaires and provide universal healthcare.
Lieberman would be a thing of the past, same with Manchin and Senima. No more spoilers in and outside of the party when Seal Team Six is at the door. I need universal healthcare now. Cut the Gordian Knot.
The Biden administration is full of professionals who SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLANNING FOR POSSIBLE OUTCOMES, INCLUDING THIS ONE, *FOR MONTHS*
It's completely ridiculous that they had nothing better to go with in this scenario than that statement.
Obviously,l they couldn't have predicted the exact wording used, & thus how wide-reaching or ambiguous the final statement could be (THAT will take some time to figure out), but they knew SCOTUS declaring presidential immunity was a likely outcome.
It's like they were asleep at the fucking wheel.
I, Chief Justice John Roberts, am a horrible shitstain and I resign...
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I, Justice Clarence Thomas, am a horrible shitstain and I resign...
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Gitmo seems harsh. Biden needs something like ‘The Tower’ (London) a place to detain goofballs. Maybe an older hotel 🏨 in DC. Lots of video cameras. Shitty food.
This is unilateral disarmament and throwing us all to the wolves. His most important job is to protect us from enemies foreign and domestic and he's announcing that he's going to refuse to do so even with our legal protections gone.
