Radley Balko: Good point from Sotomayor here. By barring prosecutors from probing a president's intent, Roberts renders the entire "official vs. unofficial" distinction meaningless.

Good point from Sotomayor here. By barring prosecutors from probing a president's intent, Roberts renders the entire "official vs. unofficial" distinction meaningless.

I simply can’t come up with a crime a President couldn’t engineer as official

"what is the limiting principle?" is always a great question. The odds that Roberts didn't consider this question approach zero.

Oh I mean, they just literally said, "The only way you can call this illegal is if it goes outside of these lines, but you're not allowed to consider anything outside these lines. It's a travesty of reasoning, the imperial presidency in a logical nutshell. The founders are retching in their graves.

Just practically, the idea that you can't use the pardon power for corrupt intent is now just... gone.

All the more reason to fire Merrick Garland, appoint an interim (I mean half of Trumps nominees were “acting” appointments that never needed senate confirmation. Turnabout is fair play.

What do you think they’d do over six months exactly?

Whatever they want

They’re an attorney. Nothing more. They can bring all the charges they like but you need the court system to convict someone or do something. Ultimately you’ll need to convince SCOTUS. This is fairy tale stuff.

Yesterday the idea that a president would have absolute immunity was a fairy tale. Things change, Mox.

I’m just asking for specifics on what you think a new attorney general could accomplish in six months. Biden can sure replace Garland…but then what? What exactly gets done?

Correction to Sotomayor's dissent: there is nothing a president can now do in his official capacity that is criminal. Just slap "official" on what you're about to do, and forget about the courts ever prosecuting you.

So Biden could absolutely wipe away student loans with a pen swipe? Just call it an official act of the president!

Wiping student loans is unconstitutional. Trying to overturn an election's results isn't! Brought to you by the Harlan Crowe Supreme Court.

The courts would just ignore it, as is their right. The Commander-in-Chief power is where the juice is at

Here’s the thing about corrupt officials: they can be bought. So let’s buy one.

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I'm seeing a lot of great posts on Sotomayor's dissent that I'm not going to share because they don't have Alt text. I see the PDF is highlight-able. Thought you all might want to know that you're missing audiences by not being accessible on here

This is a good bet on their part that dems will do fuckall with this unlimited power and then be surprised when Trump steals the election and they rubber stamp that too. I hate this fucking timeline.

Since the court is illegitimate, prosecutors should just ignore them.

the President drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it helps also him get to cabinet meetings on time, so, it;s impossible to say etc etc

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