Drord: It depends on how willing other people would be to agree with it. 25th Amendment if even the other members of the cabinet go “No, we can’t” and countercoup if there’s hesitation

I would genuinely like somebody to lay out for me the way Joe Biden is to assert dictatorial power in the wake of the SCOTUS immunity decision. I see people asserting it pretty confidently but I’m honestly at a loss for how it is supposed to actually work.

Like “he could just order the Supreme Court and Republican members of Congress thrown in Gitmo under their logic” is that true? That’s not really what I read. Could he have done that before? Was being prosecuted for it after all that was stopping him?

people seem to forget that at that point, “he’s the president” won’t exactly bind military or civil leaders to obey him

Yeah, much more likely that the 25th amendment gets invoked roughly three minutes after he issues the order.

It depends on how willing other people would be to agree with it. 25th Amendment if even the other members of the cabinet go “No, we can’t” and countercoup if there’s hesitation

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