Literal last minute decision on this one. SCOTUS is definitely running interference for Trump, without a doubt.
Biden should declare Trump a national security threat and have him assassinated. That’s an “official act”, is it not? Sure, it helps Biden immensely, but now who is to determine where an official act ends and a private self-serving one begins? Are those two necessarily mutually exclusive?
It even says so in the dissent.
“When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune,” Sotomayor wrote.
He won’t because Biden is a pussy. He’s just gonna lay back and let Trump have what he wants.
Yep the dems wouldn’t dare try to use this ruling to their advantage and then they blame everyone else when they lose and Republicans use every ruling to their every advantage.
And Alito pls
I think they are relying on the scruples that most normal, adjusted people have to prevent him from doing just that. But from a completely outcome-based perspective, I kind of think it might be the best move to try to buy time to try to start fixing this compromised court and the damage they’re wreaking
From the Sotomayor dissent, which is joined by both Kagan and Jackson: Today’s ruling “reshapes the institution of the Presidency” and “makes a mockery of the principle . . . that no man is above the law.” The decision “gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more. Because our Constitution does not shield a former president from answering for criminal and treasonous acts, I dissent.”
The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
Sotomayor does not use “respectfully” with “dissent” here or at the end of her dissent, which concludes: “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”
Good. The other justices don’t deserve any respect.
The people who need to read this are either the psychopaths who implemented the strategy to get these conservative hacks on the court, or the grossly gullible base too illiterate to find let alone comprehend this dissent.
As an official act, Biden should immediately dissolve the Supreme Court.
Whatever he does he needs to put this into effect now. The only way we’ll get this Congress to reign in Presidential power is if they think it will hinder Biden.
This isn’t a bad 4D chess move. Trick Republicans in Congress to heavily limit the power of the president to neuter this decision.
Petty politics is basically all they know at this point. Tell them noses are totally woke and they’ll start cutting off their own.
Presidential act that states the supreme Court has been infiltrated by corrupt officials, remove them all from office, and replace them with uncorrupt officials with oversight. Don’t worry supreme court, you said he could fucking do it if he wants to.
“And if the new supreme court allows me to be charged for this act, so much the better.”
That’s a funny way to spell “hang”.
Took 7 fucking months to kick this back to the lower court for a ruling we all kind of expected (can’t really trust SCOTUS to do anything good). Exactly why Smith wanted this Streamlined in December.
Planned to the last second of the last day of the session to prevent them having to definitively call him a fucking traitor. Fuck these assholes.
I officially declare that the Democratic offices at the Watergate Hotel must be searched for national security purposes.
So can Biden ✨officially✨ declare Trump an enemy combatant and have him taken out?
I hope he declares the supreme court corrupt and a threat to our democracy and removes them all from the office to replace them with not shitty people. Because they are currently a large threat to our democracy. They said he could do it.
He won’t do anything. Democrats are the party of hoping and not acting.
New York Times: “The bottom line practical effect of the court ruling appears to be that the trial judge in Washington, Tanya Chutkan, is going to have to hold an evidentiary hearing on many, if not most, of the allegations in the special counsel’s indictment of Trump. That hearing will delve into the question of whether the allegations were based on official acts Trump took as president or unofficial ones.”
“That process is going to take time. How much time remains unclear at this point.”
And that, right there, was the goal. This decision, rather than clarifying anything, intentionally muddied the waters - and treads awfully close to turning the presidency into a monarchy - in order to allow Trump to drag things out even more. They really, truly do not want him to face any sort of justice for January 6th before the election, and they hope the election will result in him never having to face justice at all.
I don’t care if you fucking hate Biden, people… Vote for him like democracy depends on it, because it fucking does. This is not a dress rehearsal. There will be no do-overs. If you let Trump become president again, America is done.
I hope the judge overseeing the case immediately calls a start to jury selection.
Lol. Have you been reading about this case at all and seen who is at the helm of this case? It’s Maga bullshit all the way down.
I’m talking about the classified document case. I probably should have clarified that. There are so many of them lol
Yes that’s Aileen canon the corrupt trump judge.
I have not, can you fill us in?
First thing that came up, but pretty accurate: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/29/opinion/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-documents-case/
I didn’t even have to open that to see that’s the documents case. This post was about immunity for trying to overturn the election. Different cases.
No, she (Cannon) literally mentioned she was waiting for a decision on this case as well since some of the evidence showed he had people stealing documents BEFORE he left office.
The DC judge (Chutkan) related to this won’t fuck around due to this ruling, and is even somewhat empowered by it since it puts more power in her hands. I don’t think they can fast track it though, so that sucks.
Really doesn’t change that you were going on about this case (overturning election case) being maga all the way down, while Cannon is on a different case (documents case).
So how is this case (overturning the election) maga all the way down? I’ve not read up on it and if you can fill us in that’d be great.
There are multiple judges in multiple cases waiting for this decision. I’m not getting your point.
We are so incredibly fucked.
Stupid just keeps getting stronger.
The court analyzed four categories of conduct contained in Trump’s indictment: his discussions with Justice Department officials following the 2020 election, his alleged pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to block certification of Biden’s election win, his alleged role in assembling fake pro-Trump electors and his conduct related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The court found Trump was absolutely immune for conversations with Justice Department officials but returned the case to lower courts to determine whether Trump has immunity for the other three categories.
The ruling marked the first time since the nation’s 18th century founding that the Supreme Court has declared that former presidents may be shielded from criminal charges in any instance.
Why are the other sources I’m reading saying the opposite of this title? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jul/01/supreme-court-trump-immunity-claim-decision-updates
Edit: title of this post changed after my comment
Reuters is a far more neutral and unbiased than many many many many many other publications, and should be trusted over your NBCs, Faux, CNN, etc.
AP, NPR, The Hill and PBS are all examples of publications to follow.
Same with NBC and their title, Supreme Court provides win to Trump, ruling he has immunity for many acts in election interference indictment
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