The Supreme Court rules that Trump has "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution for all "official acts" he took while in office. The vote is 6–3.

So, this means Biden could totally just order Trump killed right now and it'd be 100% legal.

giving the biden regime the green light to merc trump legally, but they’d rather give him a second term

It’s very hard for me to square that idea that trump is an existential threat who must be stopped by any means necessary, and the notion that Biden is allowed to do anything legally.

This is why you all need to vote. If we had blue judges in the Supreme Court this would have never happened. As long as you vote we will have democracy back in about 300 years.

My liberal coworkers are coping by "well that's fine because unofficial acts can still be prosecuted"

I would like to remind everyone that per the scotus the extrajudicial murder of us citizens accused of terrorism is a "political question" not subject to review by the courts.

I know they won't do it, but if Dems had any guts they would just explicitly challenge Marbury v. Madison, and just start ignoring Supreme Court decisions. You know the right wingers would do exactly that if they were in a similar predicament with a 6-3 liberal majority court.

Nobody saw this coming

Edit: sleepy Joe should use this precedent to Merc the court

Joker pill is officially outdated, it's time for the Mad Max pill.

What are your wastelander nicknames gonna be?

Remember when "if the president does it, it's not illegal" was shocking?

I feel morally obligated to vote for whichever third party candidate says they'll take advantage of presidential immunity and drone strike wall street.

this is actually even more sweeping. the decision gives immunity to all exercises of constitutional authority, not just official acts.

"Do you want a revolution or do you want results?"

The results:

Literally why should the President pay attention to anything the Supreme Court says, then?

Like, why not just say that everything regulatory agencies do also constitutes an official act by the President, so WHOOPS! There goes your dismantling of Chevron, John Roberts. Regulations aren't reviewable by any court now. Fuck you.

Rip the mask off, we are in a fascist state; The elites want fascism. Let's go baby arm up, run guns, sabotage. Die for the revolution, or live in tyranny in a dying and warming world. THERE'S NOTHING TO LOSE.

So that gives Biden free range to do literally anything, which he won't

By far the most depressing part of this is that Biden and the democrats will do jack shit with it

If literally anything happens I will be both astounded and genuinely impressed

I can practically hear the panic of every AP US Government teacher dreading the "Separation of Powers" section and the inevitability of one kid asking a question about this court case.

I'd like to see old cheeto wriggle his way out of this one

Is this the only job where no matter what you do it can't be a crime?

American Democracy™ in action

the best money can buy

Also what the actual fuck do they think "project 2025" is if not total control of the scotus by the gop?

"I could shoot a child in Gaza and not lose any votes" - Biden, Trump, and most other people in the federal government

Sorry guys we asked the Parliamentarian and they said "no" so we can't have democracy. Better luck next time.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Please just blow up the United States already. there’s no coming back from this one

So what "official acts" of Trump's did this case concern? Was this the January 6 stuff?

Love to grant unconditional power

All my homes love unconditional power

Ah. Well, nevertheless

The person that mercs Joe Biden and Donald Trump (and his supreme court) will go down as an American hero

what is an official act then?

nixon's hell-condemned soul is popping a bottle of sulfuric champagne as we speak

America is fucked. A giant anti woman church with guns and all the jesus and facism as you can handle.

lol

Looks like it's time for me to resubscribe to 5-4. The new episodes probably gonna be spicy.

lol, lmao

Neat.

Ah well. Nevertheless.

LET'S GO BABEEEEE

Napoleon bros we are so back.

If the Democrats actually believed anything even close to their campaign rhetoric about Trump being a criminal insurrectionist, they would now use their SCOTUS-granted authority to just have him black bagged. It's now explicitly legal for Biden to do that if he genuinely believes Trump to be a threat to democracy, since safeguarding the constitutional order is directly within his remit as President. It would be an official act to neutralize an apparent threat to the nation, which is literally one of the explicit examples cited of something presidents are now immune to consequences for.

Lol, not even a serious slap on the wrist.

Haha lol

Nuremburg bombing intensify