AnarchoNinaWritesJul 1, 2024

I cannot stress this enough - SCOTUS did not define what is an official act. So all you folks saying "well okay so now Biden can..." are not getting the bigger picture here. The President is immune for official acts, courts will decide what is official, and SCOTUS has last rule on whatever courts decide.

So if Trump does some fascist shit they like? That'll be official. And if Biden tries to do something they don't like? Unless it's written into LAW that's a Presidential power, it won't be.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites If I might offer my own respectful “concurring opinion” — SCOTUS did rule on official acts, several times, and they cited it in their majority opinions today. They cited Blassingame and even Clinton v. Jones.

The danger here isn’t that this isn’t /well enough/ defined, it’s that this court has unfortunately nonstop in the last few years normalized them saying “oh yeah but not that” to dismiss ALL KINDS OF PRECEDENT that they themselves have set.

“Official acts” is defined well enough, it just won’t matter when it’s time for them to reverse engineer the outcome they want in whatever scenarios we face next.
Jul 2, 2024 at 1:36amWeb