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

https://lemmy.world/post/17128632

“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.
How about house arrest for their “protection”? Developing countries do that all the time.
They can vote from home.
Can they, though? I’m sure there’s some 200 year old policy about having all ballots cast into the straw hat behind the vending machine on a Thursday afternoon between 3 and 5, in order to count.
Courtroom access: Faced with a pandemic, the Supreme Court pivots - SCOTUSblog

It has been one month since the Supreme Court announced on March 16 that, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, it would cancel its March argument session, which was slated to include the disputes over access to President Donald Trump’s financial records. On April 3, the justices announced that thei

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Oh, neat. 😢