Trump Lawyer Argues Fake Electors Were “Official” Presidential Act
Trump Lawyer Argues Fake Electors Were “Official” Presidential Act
Donald Trump is already using the Supreme Court immunity ruling exactly how you’d expect.
We all saw this coming, that everything Trump did as president would be argued as an official act.
Honestly, I think that impeaching all 6 justices is the right thing to do.
Just explain it to people in congress. You WILL lose your power when the whip comes down. You MAY be imprisoned or killed if you don’t get in line, and even if not, any power you had in congress will be stripped and discarded. There is no safety, even for the most extreme of the true believers. This is your chance. If you don’t try to stop it, then I think it’s better odds than 50/50 than within a couple of years you’ll be saying you’d do ANYTHING to be able to go back to today and do it, and have your old life just hanging out in Washington and doing legalized insider trading and collecting
bricampaign contributions and not having to worry about what will happen to you or your family or your home, again.I don’t know if the people will believe if it is explained to them. Groupthink and complacency are powerful things. But that is absolutely what’s at stake.
Why bother with impeachment? Biden should just exploit their most recent verdict and round them up as part of an emergency official act.
This is the fascism trap. It’s tempting to fight back “in kind” once the rules start going out the window, and obviously by the letter of their decision it would be perfectly legal for him to just assassinate them as an official act and then nominate all new justices. But this is a trap. The further we all abandon the unspoken rules that keep things on the rails, the worse it gets. You have to fight back on the tilted table without yourself breaking any rules you can avoid breaking.
It’s a shitty situation but that is the strategy, as far as I understand it.
(And I know, or I assume, that you weren’t serious - but still it applies, even to more minor things like solving the problem by nominating 10 new justices or things like that.)
Biden should use the 6
infinity stonesSupreme Court judges todestroy the infinity stonesfire the Supreme Court judgesI just looked up the inaugural oath and the president promises to defend the Constitution from domestic enemies. So if the president as part of their duties consider the supreme court a thread to the constitution then it's his duty to fire them. And they already said he'd be immune.
Not sure what he's waiting for to be honest.
I agree that there are 6 Justices contorting their understanding of the Constitution but I don’t think impeachment is the answer. The political tit-for-tat has only grown more outrageous each passing year, from withholding SCOTUS justice confirmations to cabinet picks and budget brinksmanship. Our elected officials are more interested in scoring points than governing. Both sides of the aisle should be ashamed of how they are representing us, “We, The People.”
I wish I had a solution but I’ve grown disillusioned by the one-upsmanship and grandstanding. There is no coming together anymore.
This exchange from DS9’s Past Tense, fittingly set in late-August 2024, comes to mind.
SISKO: It's not that they don't give a damn, Doctor. It's that they've given up. The social problems they face seem too enormous to deal with.
BASHIR: That only makes things worse. Causing people to suffer because you hate them is terrible, but causing people to suffer because you have forgotten how to care? That's really hard to understand.
SISKO: They'll remember. It'll take some time and it won't be easy, but eventually people in this century will remember how to care.
Call it Trekkie idealism but I still have hope. Live long and prosper, y’all 🖖
There is no tit for tat with what you cited. All of those were actions by Republicans.
impeachment or death. They are the only two options I'm aware of to get a SCOTUSee out.
And the latter now includes assisted suicide with a Biden held gun.
The Bell riots - September 2024
So they admit what happened and Trump's role in it?
"They're not confessing. They're bragging."
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
If the supreme court is going to make political decisions and try to interpret the laws in such a way to support those decisions then they should be an elected body.
They've made a complete mockery of our entire country and all of its systems. I'm about to turn to extremism. Even my local action feels like its useless in the face of this shit.
Electors are appointed by the states and counted by Congress. Where does the president come in?
“You can’t do that.”
“Presidents orders. I am but his electoral hands doing his work.”
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
I guess they can say that now, considering that corruption is now legal if your name ends with a Trump.
It’s pretty cool how these shitheads flaunt their power without shame!
/s