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  • snooggumsEnglish
    43·
    6 months ago

    He can be charged for private acts, but as long as he used official communication to discuss it with others that can’t be used as evidence. Then the stacked courts get to decide what is official and private, so private is effectively immune as well.

    What a fucking shitshow.

    • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 months ago

      Anything that can be used to show anything is an official act.

      There is no difference. There never will be. Everything is official and anyone can be killed to prove it such, officially.

      Immunity doesn’t need to be proven, it exists and it’s up to you to prove otherwise. Fuck off until proven otherwise.

      It’s not a bad thing. Unless you can officially prove it. So fuck you, you piece of shit; until you can prove it.

  • m3t00🌎English
    25·
    6 months ago

    so officially destroying the planet is okay. as a hobby, not so much

    • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
      21·
      6 months ago

      Don’t worry, they effectively ruled it’s okay as a hobby as well by gutting the Chevron defense last week to kneecap the EPA and every major federal agency.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        10·
        6 months ago

        Would it be illegal for Biden to invalidate every ruling this Court has made, including the Presidential immunity one? Or would that lead to a paradox?

        • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
          11·
          6 months ago

          The ruling on presidential immunity today was pretty paradoxical, he has criminal immunity to breaking the law if he argues it’s “to take care that laws be faithfully executed.” Absolute immunity even since that’s right in article 2, so why not?

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
    101·
    6 months ago

    In which community do I start a death pool wherein people guess the first person newly coronated King Donald has assassinated in an official act?

      • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I’m thinking Fauci, Garland, and Pelosi will be at the top of the list because they’re all old though to die of “natural causes”

        Then you’ve got the late night hosts.

        Then AOC and the squad.

        Not likely a Clinton or an Obama. That invites retribution.

  • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    right, but they also said any exercise of constitutional authority is an official act, so good luck getting anything declared a private act by the courts.

  • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
    73·
    6 months ago

    So, were Hilary’s emails OK then? If okd by obama?When it seemed like things were getting better, they for worse.

    If only Biden and the dems had the courage to do what’s needed.