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I'll say it again: since the SCOTUS intends to slow-walk a decision on presidential 'absolute immunity', Biden needs to announce RIGHT NOW that he's dissolving the SCOTUS effective 2 weeks from the time of the announcement, at midnight, intending to appoint an all-new roster of his choosing, as well as replacing all state-level judges, also of his administration's choosing.
If the SCOTUS, on the other hand, suddenly finds they do have the time to make a decision on presidential immunity before that deadline, well maybe Biden won't do it, after all.
While the president can't dissolve the court, according to the majority, the president can order them assassinated and be covered by presidential immunity.
Exactly. Maybe I didn't propose the "right" action -- the entire point is that if the SCOTUS won't rule a president does not have absolute immunity, and is subject to the law of the land, then really ANYTHING is possible isn't it?
There hasn't been an opinion dropped on Trump V. US yet. The arguments were only just over a month ago.
This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the fundamentals of US governance. The President can't dissolve SCOTUS. He hasn't been granted that power.
But Trump is currently asserting in court that he does have that power! Absolute immunity remember? Who are you to say, peon, that the POTUS cannot dissolve the SCOTUS? He has absolute immunity, remember? That means he has absolute power to do anything!
What I was trying to say is that Biden should call the bluff, and force the SCOTUS to decide right now. Why not? If the POTUS really does have absolute immunity, why not? Do you see the insanity this road leads down?
Just your average joe who is able to read a few paragraphs. The federal government doesn't have any power not explicitly granted to them.
It not a bluff it's an important case. They should write an actually well founded opinion that doesn't set up terrible case law for future generations.
You're operating under the presuppositions that it does have absolute immunity and I don't believe he does. As I said, the case hasn't had an opinion. And I didn't mention it previously but the state judge thing you'd mentioned earlier is also not in the power of the president.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
Article 2 is the bit to read.
I would like to say, for the record, that I wrote that late at night, and my phrasing probably came across incorrectly.
It wasn't my intention to call you personally 'a peon'. I was trying more to adopt the voice, for argument's sake, of what an imagined President, using this supposed absolute immunity, might say to their critics -- 'who are you (out there, the people) to question my power?'
My apologies for it coming out the way it did.
I wasn't taking that personally, my point was that in America the sovereign power rests in the people (vs England in the crown). We hold the authority under which the government exists.
As it should be! I hope in the long-term, that is proven to be true.
No, but if he the president does have absolute immunity Biden could just have seal team 6 kill Trump and some of the justices.
Not that he would, but imagined the surprised Pikachu face on the GOP if Biden called their bullshit.
Exactly. The Democratic party needs to push the issue and make the GOP see that the Leopards can eat their face too.