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• Bumblefumble@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ok correction, it’s not legal, the president can just never be punished for it, as he is immune in order to act swiftly and boldly or whatever the fuck the SC came up with as an excuse to make America a Christo-Fascist state.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not true, the Supreme Court decides it on a case by case basis. And murder of a political opponent would land Biden in jail faster than you can say “one Missisipi”. And rightfully so. That’s why he didn’t do anything of the sort - because he is not a criminal.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      With just a couple more assassinations, they might be more cooperative!

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    • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not saying that he should be doing it or that it makes sense. But no, it is very clear from the decision that he would be immune. He has absolute immunity for core powers and presumed immunity for all official acts, which the court left very vague, but didn’t deny would include assassinating political opponents. The dissenting opinion made it very clear that this was the case.

      With that said, in some way you are right. If Biden did it, it would be appealed and the SC would rule that in this specific case he isn’t immune, whereas if Trump did the same, it would be appealed and they would rule that he is immune. Because the SC is corrupt and doesn’t care about precedent.

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The decision they made wasn’t a precedent, they allowed it as a case-by-case basis. So Biden wouldn’t be able to point to Trump and say “he did it! So it’s legal!”.

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• Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Supreme court said it was if it’s an official act

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  • ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, but who decides what’s an official act? I think that ruling was only ever meant to benefit republicans

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Supreme Court does, he just said that

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      • HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Exactly. This makes the entire thing a joke.

        The court will decide acts are official when convenient (read: supports their guy).

        The Federalist Society needs to be outlawed as a terrorist organization.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    An assassination isn’t “an official act”, plain and simple. The Supreme Court ruled on one specific case. They allowed it then. A different case could be ruled illegal. Which it would 100% be done, be it a republican court, a democratic court, or some magical unbiased one from fairy land.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That isn’t how the Supreme Court works. An insurrection isn’t an ‘official act’ either btw but here we are. I recommend you look into court precedent.

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