'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling
'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling
President Joe Biden delivered a scathing rebuke of the Supreme Court on Monday, condemning their ruling granting presidents absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts. In a somber address from the White House, Biden warned of dire consequences should former President Donald Trump secure a ...
“(With) today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. For all practical purposes, there are virtually no limits on what the president can do. It’s a fundamentally new principle and it’s a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law even including the supreme court of the United States.”
Throughout his address, Biden underscored the gravity of the moment, emphasizing that the only barrier to the president’s authority now lies in the personal restraint of the officeholder. He warned vehemently against the prospect of Trump returning to power, painting a stark picture of the dangers such an outcome could pose.
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He’s so pissed about it he’s gonna do absolutely nothing!
I would love to see him detain every scotus justice and stash em in a safe house for their protection/national security. Give them no freedom of movement or agency over their lives... see if they change their tune.
This sounds like it would be way more effective than the obvious bullshit that came to my mind. I'm with you.
You apparently want him to do illegal things because he can now get away with it?
Apparently "when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal" is now law.
Turns out Nixon was right this whole time.
So again it’s now a matter of “what is allowed” vs “what is ethical or moral”…
We all joke about the high road of democratic vs gop approaches. But how much does the difference matter?
The hard part is we all get it, Biden is now technically allowed to do whatever. Is that a reason to immediately do the worst possible thing?
Should he now cast aside the law and commit hate crimes purely to prove a point?
The courts will never allow such a performative action, but they’ll allow the creep of fascism.
Yeah he should. Shock everyone. Show them how bad this ruling is. I'm sure there are impermanent ways to display this.
There are way worse thing biden could do withthis nearly unlimited power
And we’re still holding on to imagination.
These people are proving that anarchy would never work. The second murder became "legal" they all jumped to suggest it.
Murder happens all of the time in Capitalist society, too, you know? Even though it's 'illegal' and all that.
Anarchy does not mean no rules, it just means there is no state to enforce those rules. Communities can still enforce their own rules in Anarchist society, and one of those rules can be 'don't murder'.
I know what anarchy is. You're assuming murder would be forbidden in every community, but if a lot of people in this thread started communities, (at least they themselves) would be allowed to murder. That was my point.
oh, look, it's one of these again.
No, I want him to call their bluff and rise to the challenge of meeting this constitutional crisis. The top court in the land has gone off the rails, and seemingly in collusion with a concerted effort to destroy the rule of law.
Blithely waiting until the election to “let the people defeat Trump” is dereliction. This ruling may be curated in deference for Trump, but unless it is challenged forcefully it will not just go away on January 7th 2024 if Trump loses again. Because when the question of “What are ‘official acts’ v ‘private acts’ then?” comes up, it’ll go right back to the
SCotUSthe Heritage Foundation and their interpretations.It's a straw man to imply I said we should do "nothing"
Fucking lol,
This entire thread is people giving you answers that range from reasonable to nuanced, and you sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming about how the only options are murder or nothing.
I don't get to pull this quote out very often, so please, feel honored.
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
The only thing I've refused to accept is murder. Lying about that doesn't change it. Btw practically no one suggested anything, but everyone who did and said something besides murder seemed somewhat reasonable to me.
It's the tolerance paradox. We can tolerate all except the intolerant.
Can you tolerate electoral reform?
Sure. Why not? It's not like the next R in office wont do exactly that anyway.
Because morality and norms exist whether those corrupt fucks care about them or not.
The problem is that action must be taken now or those norms could go away forever.
You can't use norms and morality to defeat fascists
Murder it is then
Not for long they don't
Yes tie your hands while your opponent cleans their gun
Not illegal anymore bucko
When the other guy is willing to knife you its no time to stick to the rules of debate.
yup I'm totally saying let's do nothing about this. You people are brilliant.
What should we do then? The default assumption is nothing, give us something to actually work with or the assumption is true.
Protest. We should flood the streets and not go to work.
Not murder. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know. I know, no one ever admits this online so it's probably weird to read
The default assumption is nothing
That is on you
Republicans have spent the past 50 years screaming that guns exist to thwart a tyrannical government. Not that they bring tyranny to our doorstep, I'm not writing off the one thing they've admitted could stop them.
The current brand of right wing fascism taking over in this country will kill millions if left unchecked. I'm not encumbered by the trolley problem here, the people who want to bring fascism to America should die if that's what it takes to stop them.
Calling for civil war is always good
I don't intend to start it, I intend to finish it.
But they're not illegal things according to the highest court in the nation. That's the entire point.
That doesn't matter. I understand that premise and yet it still doesn't matter
If it was as unimportant as you think it is, it wouldn't be getting ruled on by SCOTUS. It absolutely does matter, especially with groups like the right who continually challenge laws to find ways to loosen or completely negate them.
Never said it was unimportant
Right you said it "doesn't matter" which is another way of saying that something is unimportant.
The precedent shouldn't be "they go low, we go high", but "play stupid games, win stupid prizes". He probably wouldn't do anything because the aforementioned issue, but should just send an assassination squad on the 6 supreme court judges alongside with other politicians.
You're suggesting Biden sends a government hit squad to assasinate supreme court judges?
Are you high?
No you're right we should wait until trump orders the assassinations of rival politicians next January when he very well could get elected.
I mean, apparently he could now order a hit team to burst into Robert's house at night, put a gun to his his head and say "Joe sends his completely legal regards" before leaving. Obviously killing them would be wrong but maybe it wouldnt be so bad to make them feel a bit of what they are unleashing, since conservatives often dont have empathy for things that dont happen to them or those close to them.
So.......the hypothetical of trump using these new "standards" (for lack of a better word) that his judges set is justification for calling for the current president to beat him to the punch?
Do you know what would happen if Biden did that? Best case scenario, is he IMMEDIATELY loses the 2024 election, and trump then continues the practice with the justification of "he did it first!". That's the BEST possible outcome.
But it could go SOOOOOO much farther than that. It could honestly be the thing that starts the civil war 2 in this country before we even GET to the election. A government using it's own resources to kill it's own government officials. How is that not EXACTLY what russia does???
Why stop at supreme court judges? Why not kill trump? Why not kill every political opponent you face?
You tried to stop trump from introducing facism by saying it's ok for Biden to introduce facism. Either way, this country falls to facism. You're just debating which side is the new dictator.
Did you missread what i said or just choose to argue against what you wanted to read? I even included the words "obviously killing them would be wrong", and its not like that was burried in dozens of lines nobody will read through.
I suggested showing the judge he could be targeted with his own ruling not killing him.
You're actually being serious
we should have standards. my standard for a fascist is that he should not exist.
BoTh SiDeS aRe EqUaLly BaD
They are literally not illegal anymore. He can declare Trump to be a danger and send seal team six to execute him. He can forgive half of all student debt and transfer the other half to an unlucky dude in Oklahoma. He can forbid to be called Joseph to everybody else. He can cancel the elections. Very legal and very cool.
He needs to act to safeguard our democracy, because others will not have the same hangups in doing the opposite. Acting with the power they have granted him in order to prevent future issues is not corruption.
The only thing you're interested in is showing how much of a bigger person you are on the internet. What we're doing is speaking about all the ways this is fucked up and hypotheticals about how it can go wrong. For a lot of us, this isn't new. I my political life time alone, I saw 8 years of rights being eroded by the Bush II administration with no real push back and once Obama got in under the promise of fixing things, a whole lot of inaction on rolling back any of the rights violations.
The powers that be are taking advantage of how distributed the responsibilities of government are. If it's so easy to lose rights, why is it so hard to gain them back. There's always someone else to point at for why that is the case. In Nazi Germany, that was called The Banality of Evil. I see that everyday when some injustice is hand waved away as being too ingrained to do anything about. Police Reform? Too hard. Effective Climate Action? It would hurt the economy. The SC is eroding our rights? Have to wait for someone to die or retired(lol).
The Judiciary has decided that the Executive must not be beholden to neither the Legislative nor the Judiciary. This is terrible, because it breaks the separation of powers. Now, if only the Executive wasn't beholden to any of the other powers to force the Judiciary to go back to reason... Oh, wait.
Irony aside: no, this isn't a matter of not having standards, this is a matter of making sure that democracy is capable of perpetuating itself. If the organism gets infected by a virus that intends to mutate the whole thing into a degenerated parody of itself, it must send its antibodies. Not doing so means letting the last line of defense fall all by itself, which is even against the very spirit of the law.
We know for a fact Trump will use this to abuse his power as much as possible. The high road isn't sitting down and taking it, it's using the power that was just handed to you to do something about it. There practically is no such thing as "illegal" now when it comes to the president. Biden doesn't need to commit murder to make a difference. He could, for example, expand the Supreme Court so the conservatives no longer have the advantage, or cancel student debt to get more supporters, or do anything other than cry about it.
Nah, murder is the popular idea here so let's do that
would you care to elaborate on what you believe should be done about this?
Given that I'm a programmer who hasn't even had time to think about it I wouldn't know.
Things that should not be done about it: murder. I can't tell if the people suggesting that are all joking or not, but it's sort of shocking if anyone is being serious.
“Illegal” my left asshole.
How many assholes do you have?
Thirteen of them and they're all well guarded. How many do you have??
Look in the mirror, dawg
You're wasting your time, Best Friend.
I will consider this harassment and report you if you do this again
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Lemmy is a rather small community by comparrison. I'm bound to run into you frequently.
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I don't care what you do. It has no impact on me.
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If it truly bothered you, you would block me. It's ridiculously easy.
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I’ve given up on this crowd. You didn’t say do nothing.
This crowd only understands their echo chamber. Unless you are 100% in agreement with them then you must 100% be against them.
In another post I challenged them to give one specific thing Biden can/should do to fix this. They couldn’t even come up with one item.
In another post I challenged them to give one specific thing Biden can/should do to fix this. They couldn’t even come up with one item.
Nice to run into you again, still posting this tired line huh? And you're lying, because not only did I provide specifics, so did multiple other people (there's more than just these, I've seen a ton). It seems that you might be caught in some sort of personal echo chamber.
Is there a reason you stop responding to people once they provide specifics?
I kept checking and no one would give specifics. I gave up on the conversation. But I’ll go look
I got one. Present a new bill that says supreme court judges are not for life with no chance to remove them.
Every 4 years on election years, but months before the presidential election, (so maybe spring/summer) they allow the general public to vote on their performance. If they get less than 65% approval rating, they're out. They'll be replaced by the new president, technically next year (since the election happens in November, but the inauguration is in January).
So if a court judge is less than 65% popular with the public, they're gone.
And yes, I see the problem of "but the nation is so divided right now that neither side could get that approval rating, and all 12 judges would just be replaced every 4 years....."
Which is partially by design. We need a system that fundamentally breaks all systems that keep corrupt people in power, and actively discourages the media, and politicians from taking this "us vs them" mentality.
A republican SHOULD be presenting their set of ideas that benefit ALL Americans.
A democrat SHOULD be presenting a different set of opposing ideas that benefit ALL Americans.
And the public should vote on what will benefit them most. There should be no such thing as career democrats, or career republicans. It should be a free flowing liquid set of ideas that get catagorized as democrat this time, but based on the people in the election, maybe next time you're catagorized as more republican than the other guy. So, this election you're republican instead.
Because everybody is so concerned about "The other side", that everybody forgets one key thing. It may be two sides, but they're two sides to the same coin. That coin is America. Right now, and for the past 8 years, that coin has been just falling to the ground.
Unless you are 100% in agreement with them then you must 100% be against them.
I know what you mean. It's pretty freaking sad. This isn't facebook, where there's an 80% chance I have horrid views if you think I might have them. Yet they behave like it's facebook.
Or maybe your views are just wildly unpopular, that's a possibility too.
Very useful garbage comment right here
Yah, I mean you'd hate to have any introspection, easier to insult everyone else.
Right because if a few idiots say some dumb shit it's my issue. I love how online idiots think they know everything about a person from one interaction
Even if all of Lemmy hated my opinion in this thread that wouldn't make them right
And you calling them idiots doesn't make it so either. It's just easier to call everyone dumb than genuinely consider their opinion.
Everyone hating your opinion doesn't make them automatically right, but it also doesn't make them automatically wrong. Either way, only an idiot has everyone tell them they're wrong and never considers that they just might be.
I'm assuming that since I also had a comment that was heavily upvoted yesterday, you think I should suck my own dick for being extra correct?
No? Only should take it to heart if I'm downvoted by people advocating murder eh? Funny how that works.
Nope, that's not at all what I said. See that's your issue, you want to get mad and hyper defensive about everything instead of just having some introspection when people are telling you you're wrong. I basically said "if everyone is telling you you're wrong, that's a good indicator that you should at least reevaluate your position" and you had to take that and get defensive. If this is how you handle someone else's views then ya, I get why you're down voted.
You're building a straw man and then trying to use that straw man to back your point. I clearly stated that other people's opinion does not make you right or wrong. This is a great example of your problem. You're not even trying to understand the point I'm making, you're just getting upset because someone suggested the idea that you might, just maybe, be wrong. So you make super hyperbolic statements and misrepresent what I said.