No one even thought to ask about it in the debate.
ITT: people resistant to the idea that what the judicial branch is doing is seriously wrong.
Jesus fucking Christ. That was only two months ago? Fuck you, Time, can you just be consistent for like even a second?
I mean, have you followed what’s been happening in the last two months?
I’ve aged 28 years.
Because nobody’s taken advantage of it. It was written for trump. This meme will age like roadkill.
Oh, good. I’m sure that we’ll never have another corrupt president, so there’s absolutely no need to worry!
I don’t care how the meme ages. If people get to see the consequences they’re the ones who should have gave a shit.
As a European: I give a shit, but that tanker of a shitshow is barreling down like there’s no tomorrow.
Kamala did bring it up in the debate. And that was about it.
So Biden could assassinate Trump and the courts just shrug?
So, kinda. The ruling did have more nuance than a lot of people take from it, but it’s still not a good ruling by any means.
The president has absolute personal immunity for core constitutional acts, and the presumption of immunity for official acts.
That means that you can’t sue Biden for vetoing a bill, or other things defined in the constitution. That doesn’t mean you can’t sue the office of the president, but that you can’t sue the individual.
The next part is that the courts need to assume that there’s immunity for anything done “as the president” unless the prosecution can argue that not having immunity couldn’t possibly infringe on a power of the president, and you can’t use the presidents motivation to make that case.
So the president talks to the justice department about what they can do to sway the election for him: you can only talk about the impact of holding the president liable for talking to the justice department about elections.
You can’t talk about the president assassinating a political rival because that introduces their motive. “Would the office of the president be hindered by holding them personally liable for using the constitutional power to command the military to target a threat to the country”.
Trumps family could sue, but Biden wouldn’t be liable, only the executive branch.
