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the Supreme Court, not content to immunize only Donald Trump from prosecution, retroactively exonerates Richard Nixon for Watergate
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Pretty funny that Brett cited US v Nixon as one of his most important precedents. Guess he really does know how to pay his bills in the end.
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Biden has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
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Good news though, he's still dead.
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This also says go use DoJ as your own Roy Cohn esq.
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So if the President does it, it's not illegal? I do wonder if the fall of Nixon and the Reagan scandals had such a profound effect on conservatives of a it should not have happened/cannot happen feeling was a major part of jurisprudence policy, like the unitary executive.
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Like Chico Marx, the Supreme Court doesn't believe in Sanity Clause.
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So uhh.... revolution yet? Please? Kind of eager to just end these shits here. Maybe in sooner rather than later?
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Hasn't this basically been the goal of the entire Republican project since Nixon, though? It's the culmination of 50 years of grievance politics.
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how the hell is history absolving richard nixon and not fidel castro
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Pardoning Nixon is upstream of most of our current political problems. So of course they did.
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Just In: to his Donor's; President #JoeBiden NOW promises to fight harder for the American People. After today's Supreme Court Trump win. Let's hope so 🙄