• Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          They literally have no excuses anymore. Everything that democratic voters insist that their guy wanted to do but couldn’t is 100% doable now. With the power of legal assasination given to the presidency, all that shit would now be possible. That dems won’t do it is proof of their lack of interest or conviction in their stated goals

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      The fact that SCOTUS did this knowing the democrats won’t actually take advantage of this golden opportunuty to consolidate power really says it all

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      Oh no that would be bad and wrong, he’d have to put Trump on an international terrorism list first, THEN he could do what Obama did and murder Trump and his children with a drone strike

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      I’m far from knowledgeable on constitutional law, but skimming the linked ruling, it’s very vague and seems to basically say that the supreme Court gets to decide if something is constitutional or not. So a united executive branch and judicial branch can do whatever they want with impunity.

      They say the president has absolute immunity from criminal persecution “for actions within his conclusive and preclu- sive constitutional authority.” And he also has presumptive immunity for “all his official acts.” And ofc I’m sure it’s up to the supreme to decide what qualifies an an official act, whether the presumptive immunity should be upheld, and whether an action is within the presidents “conclusive and precious I’ve constitutional authority”.

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          Let’s be real. He’ll refuse to do anything meaningful with his power, hand over the dictatorship to Trump after losing, and then blame leftists and the youth while Trump removes everybody left of Romney from power.