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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.
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Runs up against 5th amendment takings clause, no?
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Does it matter? President is immune.
He’s only immune for official acts. This isn’t one of those.
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What's the penalty for declaring non-official acts official again? Oh. Oh no...
The president doesn’t get to unilaterally declare which acts are official.
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that was then, this is now
It’s still now. The ruling explicitly directs the district court to make this determination for the conduct charged in the Smith indictment.
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ok. let me know how that goes
We should get a read on it in a matter of months. Either from the district judge or from Smith adjusting the indictment. We’ll have a good idea how the lower courts will apply this ruling going forward after that.