C.Nov 24, 2024

I find the modern USAnian partisan hack "conservatives" kind of ridiculous. If #Washington or #Jefferson or most of the other "founding fathers" of the USA had been in the courtroom when the "originalist" / "textualist" Supreme Court justices invented their "President is immune from all criminal law" doctrine from whole cloth, they would have immediately stood up, drawn their pistol, and ended such justices then and there.

Because they would have recognized it for what it is: the re-institution of the supreme King as absolute ruler, which they had risked life and limb to abolish and establish a new government of, for, and by the People.

They wouldn't have put up with it for a second.

#USPol #SupremeCourt #king #president #justice #FoundingFathers #conservative #originalist #textualist #immunity #USA

Sheila DeBonisMar 30, 2024
I just realized that #JudasIscariot is judicially and spiritually a #textualist. And that makes me realize textualism isn't solely sufficient in law making. #law #theology #Easter
Show threadfcvDec 20, 2022
@blherrou “It’s not actually clear..that judges..have the legal authority to wipe federal policy off the books.A strictly #textualist interpretation of #FederalLaw..suggests..they do not. To the contrary, the fact that federal courts have unlawfully expanded their power to interfere with duties of the executive branch seems like a direct attack on the #SeparationOfPowers. Solicitor General..Prelogar had the courage to point out this problem to the #SupremeCourt on Tuesday.”