Comment on Why is Trump buying Nvidia stock bad and what are the consequences?

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t it illegal for him to do this?

  According to the Emoluments Clause, yes.

  According to the corrupt, traitorous SCOTUS, no.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That scotus problem is massive. We can disband agencies, remove people from positions, and prosecute criminal behavior to get to be running on a more legal standing and given enough time we could be a decently run democracy again, but the disengenous scotus rulings are going to take some crazy large actions.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m really hoping the next president has the guts to arrest the con scotus justices. They basically declared the president has king powers, and they need to be forced by a king to rescind that ruling.

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        that would just doom the rule of law. being impeached is within the system. running by the illegal manner they put forth just gets us deeper.

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  • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ha! In a nutshell

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• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Illegal” doesn’t mean anything when your political faction controlled the White House, Senate and the Supreme Court.

  Soon we will see what having only 2 out of 3 will do, but as I understand the system, the Senate only gains power if they have a supermajority of 2/3, which didn’t happen.

  We are in new territory. No one can rightly say with any certainty. I can say that by normal democratic standards worldwide, the answer is yes, very very illegal. In an autocracy its usually only illegal when rival factions do it and threaten the powerful.

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