Right-Wing Supreme Court Rules Trump Has 'Absolute Immunity' for Official Acts

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Right-Wing Supreme Court Rules Trump Has 'Absolute Immunity' for Official Acts - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17119069 [https://lemmy.world/post/17119069] > “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law,” warned Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

This is oversimplifying it. They did not define “official acts”, obviously, but goose and gander. Biden is now available to use these new powers, and should.

If Biden does the exact same thing as the orange turd, the packed courts will rule that Biden’s actions were not official but the angry orange’s were.

The decision is entirely a power grab that will be abused by conservatives and not by anyone with morals. That is what these fascists are counting on.

Biden could unpack those courts as an official act and pack it with his own judges, who would rule on the outcome.

This is obviously what Trump would do in the same position. But it’s highly doubtful that Biden will.

It would set an insanely dangerous precedent. But if he doesn’t, Republicans will the next time they hold the presidency.

They don’t even need to. The same court that made this decision will say everything he does is official and (now) very legal. Some old conservatives will retire to be replaced by Eileen Cannon (she gets both of their seats), and the court just needs to sit back and endorse the fascism. They’ve already done the daring act, now everything else is procedure.