“May have just legalized murder by one individual”: Experts alarmed at “stunning” SCOTUS ruling

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“May have just legalized murder by one individual”: Experts alarmed at “stunning” SCOTUS ruling - Lemmy.World

This is literally explicitly legalized fascism and its the law of the land right now. Even if Biden wins he needs to do something to stop this before he leaves office or the US will forever be exactly as fascist as the President decides he wants to be. It’s here now.

There’s not much he can do short of committing a crime himself. Democrats don’t have control of the House, so there no way to increase the size of SCOTUS. They were smart in ruling bribery is legal before granting immunity, or Biden would have been able to officially order the DOJ to investigate SCOTUS for corruption.

His hands are tied unless he wants to get blood on them.

His hands are VERY TIED unless of course he decides whatever he does is Official Presidential Actions!
The ruling just absolves him from criminal activity. It doesn’t give him complete power to increase the size of SCOTUS or retire Justices. He’d have to order a hit on a Justice to leverage that ruling, and that is an act of an insane person.

So let’s say, hypothetically.

The president thought that people shouldn’t eat chocolate ice cream. It’s anti-american.

And “for the good of the country” anyone who eats chocolate ice cream has to be isolated from the rest of society.

That’s not an official act. It’s not really on the periphery of official acts.

But because definitionally, anything that, at the president’s sole discretion, is “in the best interest of the United States” is now argued as an official act.

Biden likes vanilla ice cream.
But he isn’t going to detain you for unamerican activities if you prefer chocolate ice cream.

Choose freedom! Choose chocolate ice cream!

You don’t understand the ruling.

It is not giving POTUS any additional authority. It grants POTUS immunity from criminal prosecution of a crime related to an official act.

Biden could personally slap the ice cream cone out of your hand and get away with it, if a court ruled it to be an official act. No one else is immune from crime committed on his behalf.

This was tailored to Trump’s insurrection charges. If SCOTUS granted POTUS more executive privilege, Biden would just overrule SCOTUS and exempt felons from presidential candidacy.

You’re so close to getting it.

I hope that you can connect the dots.

Dip-n-dots.

Seems like you’re pretty far from getting it.
This person clearly prefers pistachio ice cream.
I agree, they should be shunned!