The future producer of “Himbo Heist”: I’m seeing a lot of this. I suspect we would rapidly find the answer includes that no act is “official” if it “goes against constitutional principles” or some similar nonsense.

I’m seeing a lot of this. I suspect we would rapidly find the answer includes that no act is “official” if it “goes against constitutional principles” or some similar nonsense.

if President Biden declared today's Supreme Court ruling to be an assault on democracy and ordered Chief Justice John Roberts imprisoned indefinitely, would that be an "official act?"

Unconditional immunity for a coup suggests the exact opposite reading though

Please don’t think I’m suggesting this has to accord with anything other than their need in the moment to come up with a post hoc “principle” for the holding they were going to make anyway. We will find no act is “official” if it deprives the Court of anything it wants for itself.

It's that sacred constitutional principle of "only the right can be allowed to wield power."

Just gonna be more Calvinball nonsense. Mind reels at the abuses a president can commit when it comes to national security or foreign policy. Dark day indeed.

With the caveat, what is consistency, really, the ruling says "in diving official and unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into a Presidents motives." So the courts aren't even empowered to ASK if they're official or unofficial. They just have to trust his judgement.

on the upside he's too old to have to worry about the fallout, on the downside same

Furiously reading my pocket constitution to find that one weird trick!

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