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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Reminder: in the presidential immunity case, SCOTUS ruled that an "official act" is immune, and only SCOTUS can decide what an "official act" is.

Obviously, this fascist SCOTUS would rule that anything Trump does is official, and anything Biden does is unofficial.

But...if Biden were to take some sort of action that caused a new composition of the court...the new SCOTUS could then rule that action, and any other by Biden, as official.

I think it might be time for Biden to take action.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That Canon lady whom I'm not about to call a judge, and Harlan Crow's man friend said it's because Special Counsel Jack Smith was never confirmed as an attorney, where as all other historical Special Counsels were.

So they see him as an unconstitutional representative of the "Administrative State"... Because the rightwing in America are hard line constitutionalists (who still bend shit), they want to destroy the "administrative state" eg. Public Servants, eg. All the stuff that makes up a modern functioning nation.

It goes along with their "defund the government" and "defund the tax system" goals, and their goal to defund all revenue streams of the commons (via privatisation), and "getting rid of red tape" (eg. Public protections).

In the minds of conservatives there should be a basic criminal justice system, and nothing else. That's what they see as government.

Of course when they get into power it's all embezzlement and golden handshakes with corporate friends... So there's the facade they believe in and then what actually happens when they get into office, as there always is in politics.

...now with Project 2025, this pattern may never end.

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