They already did! The ‘presidential immunity’ ruling they recently made basically said that if a President does it, we (SCOTUS) will decide if it is an official act, and if it is, then the Prez is blameless, but if we say the act isn’t ‘official’ then WE will tell you the Prez is a baddie.
Fascists rely on you being a decent person in indecent times. They’re counting on Biden not using the full extent of the powers the office of the President has been granted because it’s so far beyond the pale.
In the immunity case, when all the other judges were writing opinions about that case, Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion about a totally different case, this one. He was signaling her to dismiss the case.
Quite honestly, something like this has been pretty obviously coming from the get go. Cannon has consistently made no effort to hide the fact that she’s bought and paid for and was presiding over the case in bad faith.
What a nonsense decision, it should be appealed at the very least
Edit a lot has happened so let’s bring some context to this: Hilary Clinton was derided as unfit for presidency because she had a secure server in her private space for emails, some of which were classified.
Meanwhile, Trump literally had boxes of classified documents in a bathroom. Republicans are duplicitous, hypocritical and should not be expected to operate on good faith.
Or if they’re not, then they should show some objectivity and apply the same standards everywhere. What a bunch of clowns
Are you fucking kidding? So special attorneys, which have been used by pretty much every administration and every congress since the position was created, are not valid now?
I’m not a law expert, but was the way she dismissed it make it so he can’t be charged again in either another jurisdiction or by the appropriate (in her mind) prosecution team?
I am trying to keep “hopeful” that they’ll stick to their Project 2025 plans in the sense that they’ll try to do it through legal shenanigans and loopholes rather than just sending out the Gestapo and keeping everyone in their homes with machine guns.
We should all arm ourselves now. Every single bit of this is unprecedented, in the worst possible way. Better to be safe than staring down the barrel of a Luger.
Counterpoint: if you are staring down the barrel of a Luger, I would suggest NOT doing what they tell you to do.
The Nazis had a habit of forcing someone at gunpoint to do something worse than getting shot. Like telling you to bite the curb, or kill your friend, then they shoot you.
The big threat of that would be a dismissal after a jury was sworn. At that point, jeopardy attached, so rebringing the case could be unconditional under the double jeopardy clause [0].
The virtually unappealable way to do this would be to wait until the prosecution finishes their case. At that point, the defense will file a routine motion for a directed verdict that judges routinely deny. The defense gets to do that again after presenting their case. In either case, the judge granting the motion is not apealable.
The judge could wait until after a verdict and issue a judgement not withstanding verdict, but that is appealable.
[0] Not always though. A mistrial from a hung Jury can always be retired. Other forms of mistrial may be retryable depending on the facts.
America is just shouting out of every place: “Down with democracy, down with the constitutional rule of law! Hail to a fascist state!” And still the biggest discussion is about some fumbling and age.
An authoritarian dictatorship is so clearly in your furure if you guys don’t wake up and spend your energy fighting against THIS instead of one another.
The rest of the world is really relying on you not to fuck this up.
I just saw a post about Trump gaining and now leading in every swingstate.
Its the same with the shift to the right in Europe. There are just too many people uninterested in politics or not voting because they don’t like any of the candidates. These are the people who have to wake up and understand that democracy is at stake and that they are responsible for it, if they don’t vote! The extremists will ALL be out there voting so we can’t really allow ourselves to be indifferent.
Because the Nazis are trying to steal the country and there have been 0 consequences for Thomas while he’s actively taking bribes and encouraging this bullshit.
Reminder: in the presidential immunity case, SCOTUS ruled that an “official act” is immune, and only SCOTUS can decide what an “official act” is.
Obviously, this fascist SCOTUS would rule that anything Trump does is official, and anything Biden does is unofficial.
But…if Biden were to take some sort of action that caused a new composition of the court…the new SCOTUS could then rule that action, and any other by Biden, as official.
I think it might be time for Biden to take action.
Biden is a neoliberal. They are not exactly known for “taking action”. When conservatives make things worse, nothing will fundamentally change under a neoliberal. It’s almost like it’s a neoloberal slogan or something.
That Canon lady whom I’m not about to call a judge, and Harlan Crow’s man friend said it’s because Special Counsel Jack Smith was never confirmed as an attorney, where as all other historical Special Counsels were.
So they see him as an unconstitutional representative of the “Administrative State”… Because the rightwing in America are hard line constitutionalists (who still bend shit), they want to destroy the “administrative state” eg. Public Servants, eg. All the stuff that makes up a modern functioning nation.
It goes along with their “defund the government” and “defund the tax system” goals, and their goal to defund all revenue streams of the commons (via privatisation), and “getting rid of red tape” (eg. Public protections).
In the minds of conservatives there should be a basic criminal justice system, and nothing else. That’s what they see as government.
Of course when they get into power it’s all embezzlement and golden handshakes with corporate friends… So there’s the facade they believe in and then what actually happens when they get into office, as there always is in politics.
…now with Project 2025, this pattern may never end.
It’s not supposed to happen this fast. There are supposed to be centuries and several generations in between until humanity forgets the atrocities and repeats their mistakes. It’s like, as soon as eyewitness’ are getting scarce the world acts like it never happened.
Source? Loss of faith in institutions. An election of incompetent candidates. People literally sacrificing themselves for political ideology. Toilet Paper hoarding shows the greed inherent in the system. Price gouging. Supply chains revealed the fragility of the capitalist economy. Inflation begins and indicates the new normal. The dissipation of pollution during COVID added solar radiation to latent heat increasing climate warming. 2020 was the Rubicon. Climate change will increasingly exacerbate the global economy leading to a destabilization of governments and civil unrest and wars. Am I missing something; was it when the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup?
For COVID not being the Rubicon. 2019 was the last semi-sane year globally. It’s only downhill from there. Oh, I forgot Ukraine and Israel, the genocide in the Sudan. Global crop failures. Deadly wet bulb temperatures.
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To paraphrase margery tyrell, “He doesn’t care about the consequences because he doesn’t intend to suffer them.”
Trump has fallen ass backwards into a perpetual get out of jail free card. Is it any wonder he acts with impunity when events time after time prove that he is effectively immune from all but the most trivial inconveniences?
I'm an '80s kid and definitely care about Regan and his impact. He was president for a large chunk of my childhood. I remember some of the later times he was on the news. His impact has forever changed American politics.
We sat around, even when I was young, watching the news every night with my family whilst eating. I can tell you I remember some things from the end of his presidency. Right after it, when the Berlin came down, I remember watching the news about it as we were actually at my grandparent's house for dinner that night. On the other hand, I don't remember the challenger explosion even though I was in gradeschool at the time. Maybe I've just forgotten about it as an adult now in my 40s.
We also had mock elections in gradeschool with the actual presidential candidates. I did misunderstand it and my parents refused to believe, as I did, that I had actually voted and found it hilarious.
Have you seen political favor jail? Its a resort that lets you out on weekends for good behavior. If you think they would go to gitmo, then at that point they are dead anyway.
I wouldn’t be laughing. Fascist states, after their internal purges, tend to need to expand. After these fuckers take over America, they’ll come for the rest of the world.
Oh c’mon man how naive can you be? Between Biden fumbling through debates that should’ve been child’s play and constantly forgetting names, and this guy getting martyred for not getting shot in the face, I’m sorry to say but this race won’t even be close.
(And that VP pick? People who are going for the main attraction called Trump aren’t going to give a rats ass about the VP pick.)