The future producer of “Himbo Heist”: 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.

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."

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