I see some good ideas being suggested, but here's my entry: he can now *commercially* pirate music, since to really be criminal rather than civil, needs to be commercial. So he could set up the White House's official pirate streaming service. And no one could do anything.
Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.
I came up with this stunt, as being illegal and unjust in multiple ways, without hurting anyone. But there's some risk people would like it, rather than understand how unjust it is. Pretty much anything illegal he does that isn't obviously hurting someone, people might mistakenly like it.
My best idea so far:
1) Have Willie Nelson get himself photographed smoking a joint in a scenic spot on federal park land in a blue, pot-friendly state: still a federal crime.
2) Order executive branch to arrest, prosecute.
3) Sell him a pardon. Charge him one signed guitar.
4) Donate it to charity.
Eminent domain every property adjacent to Sam Alito's, bulldoze everything there, and set up jumbotrons right up on the property line showing nothing but drag shows 24/7.
Feels like this is a moment that was tailor-made for @crimeaday on Twitter, who literally wrote the book on weird and random prohibitions under the US Code x.com/crimeaday?la...
I want Biden to add me to the official White House Plex server. I want the stupid weekly emails to keep me up to date on his progress through "B.A.D. Cats" and "Hardball".
Pretty sure Biden sees that as among the worst crimes there is, next to clearing one's debt to MBNA through Chapter 7, so I doubt he'd be on board with it.
How about create a copy of the Internet Archive under the white house? That would take care of the whole copyright problem for lending e-books.
The only reason I don't suggest simply taking over the IA is a fear of what Biden's successor in office might do to it.
Deface confederate monuments by replacing the faces with Biden's. (Include stone mountain). Given the possible successor is likely to then swap in his own face instead of restoring the originals, it means they stay defaced.
Okay, but also cartoons, TV shows, movies--the ones studios own and won't show. The ones they make and destroy. Put them all out.
You didn't say it couldn't be my personal pet wheeze!
Not only is the president immune, you can't even present the conversations as evidence if he can concoct the flimsiest connection to 'official' business.
That doesn’t fit into the guidance outlined in the scotus ruling. The prosecution would easily clear the bar that “cultural benefit” isn’t a core constitutional function of the office.
Though less amusing, I think the answer to the exercise has to be something along the lines of: joining a criminal conspiracy and taking an affirmative step to advance the conspiracy by, e.g., declassifying some relevant information.
Who's talking about the President? There's nothing stopping the judiciary from determining any act is official. Congress so far has only bothered saying some acts aren't.
