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.
giving the biden regime the green light to merc trump legally, but they’d rather give him a second term
I wouldn't vote for Biden just because he droned Trump, but I would laugh very hard so I think he should do it
Listen jack...vote...worst, my sodlier son...I beat medicare, Trump too...Fat.
If I were Biden, I'd nuke Mar A Lago
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.
Obama murdered a 16-year-old who wasn't even accused of a crime and got away with it, but I guess the rules are different when the victim is Muslim
once again,
Death to America
I tried to explain this to libs back in 2018ish. If Trump is a fascist, why would voting him out do anything? Ya'll are either being hyperbolic, or you're being cowards.
If Biden gets Trump assassinated by the CIA will it be considered official business?
the obvious rules based liberal solution to trump is fucking divest presidential powers, instead of giving even more expansive executive
Clearly if we don’t use power it’ll set a precedent of good behavior!
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 could love to live with this level of delusion
Yeah I've seen the same take.
Are they really stupid enough to think that Trump (and future Republicans) wouldn't just label everything an official act as a direct consequence?
Edit: I mean he could quite literally go on 5th Avenue now if reelected, declare "I, PRESIDENT TRUMP, AM OFFICIALLY BLOWING IT OUT YOUR ASS" and gun someone down.
🤣
good thing the decision doesn't cover that base by saying exercises of constitutional authority are official acts lmao
Ask them if the verdict for those unofficial acts can still be appealed to the Supreme Court lmao
Sorry sweaty whether or not an act is official is a political decision and not subject to review by the courts
Ah, well nevertheless
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.
American Hexbears:
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.
the SC completely invented their power from whole cloth and (almost) every subsequent administration has just gone with it
Democracy
People think that I'm crazy when I say the supreme Court is basically a toddler that adults are pretending has magical powers to not make them cry. It's maddening, ignore the toddler!
sorry i hated learning government in school, i know the president could pack the court but you’re telling me they aren’t even obligated to honor their decisions and ignore them?
The supreme court has no explicit constitutional mechanism or authority to enforce their decisions, so they literally made one up, the idea that when they declare a law unconstitutional it just suddenly stops being a law.
Everyone just goes along with it because the whole country was designed from the ground up to prevent good things and only elect people who want to prevent good things. But there's literally no reason the rest of the government couldn't just go "thanks for your opinion but we don't gaf"
Joker pill is officially outdated, it's time for the Mad Max pill.
What are your wastelander nicknames gonna be?
Bigus Dickus
Lord Humungus Chungus
Dr. Jizz
Mad Dog Brandon
Chronomeat Rexidius al-Appalachi
Bag of Circus Peanuts
The Grungler
Beaniosa
Solomon Grundle
Ares, with my twin guns Phobos and Deimos
nothing i'm one of those unnamed extras that suffer some really embarrassing demise
I'm gonna be that guy from Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior for us USians) who spends the majority of the movie held hostage and tied to the front of Lord Humongous' buggy and at the end gets smashed up against the back of Mel Gibson's tanker truck when Mel brake checks Humongous.
Storm
the grunter
Guster Slip and I carry a six gun I call Sex Gun
Vexed Victoria.
Bloodhog Stoltenberg
High High Hopes
The Duke of Poop
blorp
Macerator Rex
Burai Fighter Deluxe (KiD, Game Boy, 1990)
Squiggly
The harbinger of ruin.
Stimpak
Nobody saw this coming
Edit: sleepy Joe should use this precedent to Merc the court
Yea true the most progressive president ever hashtag should probably line up and shoot every conservative politician
I would vote if he promised to do this.
On the other hand
And drop an action movie line about "executive branch"
putting execution back into the execution of powers
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.
"Do you want a revolution or do you want results?"
The results:
this is actually even more sweeping. the decision gives immunity to all exercises of constitutional authority, not just official acts.
exercises of constitutional authority
I don't know what this liberal buzzword means though
if the courts decide it's within the president's constitutional authority (when don't they?), they're always immune from criminal prosecution.
Qualified immunity for the president basically
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.
jacksonmaxxing
Reminds me of that moment in the October Revolution where the people were begging the bolshevik's to take power. The American people want someone to do and act on their behalf and this is what we are saddled with.
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.
we are in a fascist state; The elites want fascism.
preaching to the choir i know. My brother is a conspiracy theorist, and I struggle to have the confidence that these lunatics have, the certainty with which they scream and yell about deep states and cabals. So I try to be nuanced. But you try to be nuanced, you try to remain cool headed, and reality is like blaring klaxon horns at you, that the world is on fire. It's so depressing.
So that gives Biden free range to do literally anything, which he won't
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.
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
Is this the only job where no matter what you do it can't be a crime?
nah, scotus gave themselves similar immunity lmao
Remember when Trump was first prosecuted and it looked like dems were actually TRYING to do something and all the normies were whining about how "Politicians are responsible for obeying the law too? What are we a bunch of ASIANS!?!? This is 1984!"
Amerikkka deserves its doomed anarcho-fascist hellscape.
kings as well
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?
Saw a new take on this from righties:
we’re not actually going to do Project 2025, it’s too radical
They are gonna do worse, cause the democrats are just rolling over.
They're scrambling furiously to write projecr 2026
yeah but if the GOP gets control of scotus forever think of how much money the democrats will be able to fundraise
"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
It's so funny she torched her legacy so hard. Now the institution she helped legitimize in life is running buckwild.
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?
any exercise of executive power where congress isn't involved
Whatever the Supreme Court wants it to be?
America is fucked. A giant anti woman church with guns and all the jesus and facism as you can handle.
Gotta say I missed not seeing doofy usernames like yours
It's a family name
nixon's hell-condemned soul is popping a bottle of sulfuric champagne as we speak
lol
Looks like it's time for me to resubscribe to 5-4. The new episodes probably gonna be spicy.
looking forward to the ALAB on this one
Mic Dicta gets resurrected from the grave
lol, lmao
Neat.
Ah well. Nevertheless.
LET'S GO BABEEEEE
Napoleon bros we are so back.
Lol, not even a serious slap on the wrist.
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.
I would also black bag the 6 Supreme Court justices so they can’t opine on whether it is an official act or unofficial.
Haha lol
Nuremburg bombing intensify
So, this means Biden could totally just order Trump killed right now and it'd be 100% legal.
Supreme court Justices also....just sayin.
Using "I was going to vote for Joe Biden after the immunity ruling, but he refuses to blow up the SC Justices before they overturn gay marriage so I won't" as a reason now lmao
I encourage Joe Biden to gather all the right wing state governors and every single Republican he can for a grand July 4th celebration with an announcement. Tell them he wants to discuss something with immigration and funding from the federal government... that'll probably get them to show up. Just a big ol' freedom BBQ in and around the Capitol building.
And then he can do the funniest thing in history
Kill them too before they rule against him.
The fact that SCOTUS did this knowing the democrats won't actually take advantage of this golden opportunuty to consolidate power really says it all
Oh no that would be bad and wrong, he'd have to put Trump on an international terrorism list first, THEN he could do what Obama did and murder Trump and his children with a drone strike
Imagine Matt Miller and Kirby telling the press gaggle that there would be an internal investigation into the alleged drone striking of an ex-president
"It's tough cookies, folks. Look. Donald Trump wasn't a good guy. And hey, I get it, and we're investigating. But you know what? I don't hear any of you talking about what he did on Jan 6. Did you forget? I didn't and President Biden didn't either. It's a tragic thing that his entire extended family is dead. I agree! But let's not forget who he was and what he did. It's real tough, folks. So let the pentagon look into it, and we'll let you know. Alright anymore questions? No more about Trump."
Misfired hamas missile that came back down and hit mar a Lago. Because it was actually fired from Mar a Lago. Secret hamas base all along.
I'm far from knowledgeable on constitutional law, but skimming the linked ruling, it's very vague and seems to basically say that the supreme Court gets to decide if something is constitutional or not. So a united executive branch and judicial branch can do whatever they want with impunity.
They say the president has absolute immunity from criminal persecution "for actions within his conclusive and preclu- sive constitutional authority." And he also has presumptive immunity for "all his official acts." And ofc I'm sure it's up to the supreme to decide what qualifies an an official act, whether the presumptive immunity should be upheld, and whether an action is within the presidents "conclusive and precious I've constitutional authority".
Okay so just kill all the Republican court justices first, appoint new ones and have them rule the act an official one, then drone strike Mar-a-Lago. Simple.