• @Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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    1401 year ago

    Honestly, if they were to rule that Trump is immune, Biden should immediately arrest the affirming justices and replace them with his own appointees, screw the process.

    He’s immune, after all.

    Of course, the new justices would probably hold Biden accountable and then recuse themselves to allow the displaced justices to return.

      • @III@lemmy.world
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        191 year ago

        If they go the route they did with Roe it would be because of some European dude who believed in witchcraft that died before the United States was formed. Very reasonable… /s

      • @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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        101 year ago

        “Based on 11th century English Law of the Lords, that is, a law made up on the spot by the local Feudal Lord to order his minions to cut off the heads of anyone he wants, Trump can do this too and override every law in American legal history.”

        “It’s what the Founding Fathers wanted.”

    • LeadersAtWork
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      81 year ago

      At this point I am sorta on the fence to break rules to fix things. Wisdom says that’s a terrible idea, yet somehow it keeps popping up in my head.

      Not sure we’re quite there…yet. Damn if this climb isn’t running out of stairs though.

      • @MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        Only a fool sticks to something like rules when fighting terrible people who ignore rules.

        If you want to feel good about it, stick to moral axioms, like minimizing suffering. It becomes very, very easy to despise Republicans for being literal monsters.

        If you want to know where to draw the line on your morals, stick to the paradox of tolerance. Who is being intolerant of whom, and what’s the big deal?

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    831 year ago

    Got damn. Mr. Smith is on this. Betting the Court defers to the lower court’s ruling denying presidential immunity. Bet if they do hear it, they still call him liable.

    Remember, not all their rulings have been conservative, and they owe Trump nothing for their seat. I honestly think Trump assumed he was buying Justices and they would always rule for him. LOL no.

  • @hperrin@lemmy.world
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    711 year ago

    If Trump is immune, doesn’t that give a free pass to Biden to commit whatever crimes he wants? Maybe even cheetocide.

    • ALQ
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      491 year ago

      Which is why they should make their decision soon. If they rule he has immunity, then Biden will have time to commit whatever crimes against Trump he can and would then be immune from prosecution for it. Personally, I’m hoping for a public caning.

        • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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          61 year ago

          Yeah, everyone shows up with a cane and one-by-one hits him with their cane and then shoves it up his butt. Whoever makes him pop like a pinata gets their picture on his Wikipedia page.

        • ALQ
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          61 year ago

          Well that’s just the top of the list. I’ll leave anything worse for others to write out. 😂

        • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          You are failing to remember how vain Trump is, a public caning would destroy every ounce of him psychologically, but I think he should get a public caning after he gets the Cersei Lannister walk of shame treatment.

        • ALQ
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          71 year ago

          As someone with (consensual) experience with both - caning hurts more (for me, anyway).

          Cane someone on the soles of their feet and make them walk afterward? That’s good sadism.

          • peopleproblems
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            31 year ago

            I thought so. I’ve never gotten to try it on anyone so it’s been sort of a in my head that looks worse sorta thing

    • BraveSirZaphod
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      171 year ago

      The SCOTUS has its fair share of shits on it, but they are not a simple “do what Republicans want” machine (aside from Alito and Thomas).

      Literally just today, they announced a ruling allowing Washington state to ban gay conversion “therapy”. They’ve already riled against Trump multiple times in other cases.

    • @Wodge@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      Don’t count on that happening. They like those perks of the job, and a dictator has no need for a supreme court. If they want to maintain their cushy lifestyle, they need to keep the authoritarians from completely subverting democracy.

      • @Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        This right here is bald truth, and I’ll bet you a dollar it’s crossed all of their minds. Except for Thomas. Thomas has a one-track mind and it has no room for anything except its one preferred thought, which is “I will make them all wish they hadn’t talked about that pubic hair” on repeat, ad infinitum.

  • peopleproblems
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    181 year ago

    The Trump campaign issued a statement saying that Smith was attempting to interfere in the 2024 election.

    No u

  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    131 year ago

    I hope they rule expeditiously but I think the coward’s way out is to rule against immunity but take your sweet ass time about it so you might not ever have to rule on it. SCOTUS judges love the coward’s way out (see: shadow docket, pretending standing matters or doesn’t, using footnotes to insult people, & cetera).

  • @LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    91 year ago

    Could it backfire if SCOTUS punts the case until after 2024 elections, there by giving the orange de facto immunity against any ongoing litigation?

    • @LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      From the article:

      Under the timeline proposed by Smith, the court — if it decides to step in — could hear arguments and issue a ruling in a matter of weeks.

      There is precedent for such an outcome, with Smith citing the 1974 U.S. v. Nixon case, in which the court ruled on an expedited basis that President Richard Nixon had to hand over tape recordings sought during the Watergate scandal probe. Nixon resigned soon after the ruling.

      In a brief order issued just hours after Smith’s filing, the court asked Trump’s legal team to respond by Dec. 20. The court also said it would consider on an expedited basis whether to hear the case, an indication that it takes Smith’s request seriously.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    61 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to immediately step in to decide whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution for his actions seeking to overturn the 2020 election.

    “This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy: whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office,” Smith wrote in the court filing.

    More recently, the court has on several occasions taken up cases at an early stage of litigation to decide issues of national importance, such as the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses and its plan to forgive student loan debt.

    But since he left office in January 2021, the court has not been receptive to filings brought by the former president, including over his separate legal fight concerning presidential documents he stored at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

    Trump’s lawyers argue that his role in questioning the result of the election was within the “outer perimeter” of his official responsibilities as president, a phrase that appears in a 1982 Supreme Court ruling, also involving Nixon, about presidential immunity.

    Trump was indicted after a sprawling investigation that included testimony from dozens of White House aides and advisors ranging in seniority up to former Vice President Mike Pence.


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