U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

Better than Jesus , cause Trump didn’t die like a dog

to evangelicals Soros is the Antichrist

"Biden should issue an Executive Order saying being President is illegal."

he should definitely issue one that says you can't be a felon and be President!

and also an order that you can't be on the ballot if you are a felon. let the courts figure it out. it should take them 4 years.

what is something good that biden could do now that he can do anything? for real. barring assassinations.

*issue an executive order knocking out all student loan debt

*appoint 5-6 more justices to the supreme court

ooh i know. he should definitely make all of trump's taxes public. actually, anything the government has on trump should go public. he can say its in the national interest. make it an executive order.

he's gotta do something! he's so lame though...oh god he's so weak and lame and useless...

but the *President's Taxes Are Always Completely Public Act* could totally be a thing.

what's hilarious is a lot of the news agencies are really bending over backwards to minimize what actually happened, framing it as "ruling finds President has some immunity", "SCOTUS rejects Trump's qualified immunity theory, but grants some immunity", etc, things that are technically true but obvious copium framing.

because no one wants to admit that the Republicans hate anyone who's not a Republican.

This is the highest form of wriggle

ah well. this country had a good murderous racist run. it gave eastern europe a place to go for awhile there. during the troubles. hot dogs. pizza. willie mays...damn.

i was really, really hoping to be proven wrong about my deep-seated pessimism that this fucker would ever face any serious consequence but... welp

Roberts wrote that Trump’s theory of immunity is much broader than the Court’s, but that the government’s theory of presidential exposure is also much too broad — arriving at a place that significantly hobbles special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution. Under the ruling, some of Smith’s charges will be nixed, but some may survive. Either way, the process will be long and arduous, cementing that this case can’t reach its conclusion before the 2024 election — Trump’s goal all along, in which the Court was a willing helpmate.

Perhaps most damningly for Smith’s way forward, Roberts ruled that prosecutors cannot use conversations involved in the protected “official acts” to prove knowledge or intent in the prosecutable unofficial ones.

“Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial,” he wrote.

Trump's just going to make Q his VP now, right? Just a laptop on his desk with the AI image of a naked Ivanka telling him who to kill.

Perhaps most damningly for Smith’s way forward, Roberts ruled that prosecutors cannot use conversations involved in the protected “official acts” to prove knowledge or intent in the prosecutable unofficial ones.

whadda load of shiiiiiiiiiiiiit

well guess I'll just enjoy the last semi-terrible months we have here before things get mega-terrible.

if he wins lemme know when to storm the court.

at least the documents case is safe. *this just in: court rules that all official documents belong to da prezadent by law...*

I'm convinced they're just trying to make the 3 libs ragequit now

Who counts as "his advisers" under this ruling?

Had the Court made this ruling in June 2020, Trump might have ordered the military to kill BLM protestors as one of his official acts.

As we ponder the coming age of American monarchs, it's worth noting that the monarchial tendencies of the Democratic Party also to varying degrees helped bring us here — the anointing of Hillary and Biden as candidates because they were already in the nobility, the regal refusal of RBG to retire at the reasonable age of 80, this entire slide toward autocracy has been very much enabled by the cloistered worldviews of the so-called opposition. Probably the way it always works I guess.

The president doesn't have the authority to do that so it's hard to see how it could be an "official act," but who the fuck knows how this court would view it. xp

xp have always wondered why more was not made of Trump's praise for the murder of Michael Reinoehl in retaliation for killing Aaron Danielson

"the anointing of Hillary and Biden as candidates because they were already in the nobility,"

this was Gore! "i was a good soldier and now its mine mine mine!"

nobody wanted him. nobody liked him. but they gave it too him. and then we got bush.

Biden doesn’t have the courage or boldness to even suggest stacking the court. His cowardice will be his undoing, as it was Obama’s.

So the killing of protestors could potentially be an unofficial illegal act, but the order to kill the protestors could be an official act, as long as it was made to the military instead of to, say, a hitman? And even if the President did hire a hit man, if he did it by telling someone who worked at the White House to go hire a hitman for him, that conversation would be inadmissible because it was an "official act"?

No, I don't think a US president can issue an order for US military/national guard to kill specific people/groups on US soil.

I don't like the term "court stacking"/"court packing" because it makes it sound like there's something underhanded or improper about expanding the Court. There isn't. There's no rule that it has to be 9 justices. It doesn't even make sense that it's 9 justices when we have 50 states and 300 million people.

Not to mention the increase in life expectancy

xxpost But what if he writes a memo that says the specific people are a "clear and present danger"?

hmmm

The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.

Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.

I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2024

xp more to the point imo a Predident doesn't need to order it directly, it can and did happen anyway (and the President, who didn't order it directly, gloated about it as 'retribution' afterwards).

xposts -- sure, a president "can't" order the military to murder people, because that's illegal. But say he did it anyway? He can't be prosecuted.

I mean, a court properly interpreting things would say that because it's not within his official power to issue a kill order, he can be prosecuted. The Court's ruling is disconcertingly ambiguous though. I don't think even this Supreme Court would consider it to be under the first category of things granted "absolute immunity" since it's clearly beyond the scope of its powers, but it could be within the second murkier category of "presumptive immunity" under some circumstances, making it at least harder to prosecute.

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— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 1, 2024

Palpatine was a SINO (Sith in Name Only)

this is apparently real??

Trump is wilding out even for him pic.twitter.com/Tf3wr4BYd7

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 1, 2024

playing right to the base. they love that shit.

Kevin Kruse says congrats Roberts Court, you're the literal worst ever

https://substack.com/home/post/p-146170415

The advisors part of that ruling is freaking insane. The rationale for that is presumably a form of the attorney-client privilege, which under normal circumstances has an exception for crime/fraud.

On the bright side, I think the head of the Biden crime family is going to skate

Morbid, from Jackson, but I laughed out loud. pic.twitter.com/FqYT9insge

— emptywheel (chicklet) (@emptywheel) July 1, 2024

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/07/05/magazine/05mag-sessions-07/05mag-sessions-07-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg

Honestly, I think most blue states will just outright ignore the Supreme Court, as they well should. Pack the court and have term limits, you fucking cowards

Constitutional crisis is probably inevitable, with like CA saying, "We're banning assault weapons. You guys are nuts."

i'm guessing if trump wins people will just start civil suits against him while he's in office for anything that they think is illegal or not an official act, no? which could be a lot of things knowing him...