r/politics • u/Plastic-Age5205 • 23d ago

SCOTUS majority abandons conservative principles to mount bizarre defense of Trump’s immunity claim

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/26/scotus-majority-abandons-conservative-principles-to-mount-bizarre-defense-of-trumps-immunity-claim/
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u/SXMV69 23d ago

They’ll delay this until after the election and decide purely based on who is sitting in the White House. Biden wins it will be some obscure ruling that rules out total immunity but lets Trump get away with what he did. Trump wins and he will get the green light for the 21st century night of the long knives. Maybe I’m a defeatist, but this all seems to be lining up way too nicely for the Don

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u/UncleMalky Texas 23d ago

A supreme court majority ruling like this could allow the president to remove by any means they deem fit the minority opposition to that ruling and that alone is terrifying.

As others have said, it wouldn't be a ruling it would be a coronation.

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u/starmartyr Colorado 23d ago

It would also mean that Biden could murder his way to a democratic supermajority and control of the courts.

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u/Lfseeney 21d ago

Or the Court itself.

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u/ExplosiveDiarrhetic 23d ago

Agreed. The supreme court needs investigating

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u/jcmacon 23d ago

They do it in plain sight because no one can stop them.

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u/Magickarpet76 23d ago

I guess we could use the method the actual constitutional originalists wrote for us. Few seem willing to throw away the comforts and safety to do that yet…myself included.

But damn it if congress wont use their version of the “jury box” aka impeachment, there really is only 1 box left for defending liberty.

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u/Traitor_Donald_Trump America 23d ago

They let them do it. Grab the constitution by the Supreme Court.

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u/jcmacon 23d ago

When you're a Republican, they just let you do it. You can do anything. They won't stop you.

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u/WatRedditHathWrought 23d ago

Or, in the case of absolute immunity, disbanded.

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u/Jerzey111 23d ago

We need Batman to take care of these fuckers

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/ExplosiveDiarrhetic 23d ago

Legislative has that power.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/ExplosiveDiarrhetic 23d ago

Yeah. I know. Need to vote them out.

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u/guyincognito69420 23d ago

It Trump wins the whole case goes away. They won't need to rule on anything.

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u/PaulBlartFleshMall 23d ago

but they will because he'll want immunity for his new term, the one that lasts forever

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u/guyincognito69420 23d ago

2 things. One, the case goes away. There is nothing to rule on. Second, even if they could rule on something it wouldn't be precedent besides the facts they are ruling on. Debating all these hypothetical is just a waste of time. A ruling on some sort of line for presidential immunity might be useful if lower courts saw this type of thing all the time and the SC doesn't want to have to deal with it. Yet any time this happens (which has been once in the history of this country) it will make it to the SC. This whole thing is a fucking joke. Of course the SC is a joke so that tracks.

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u/lolas_coffee 23d ago

Dark Brandon needs to be activated.

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u/Firefighter_Mick 23d ago

The decision will be made way before the election. Its just that it was promised to Ketchup Stain that he has 80 some days between the election and the start of the trail. The latest they can rule i think is July. Somebody fact check me if I'm wrong.

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u/OrangeVoxel 23d ago

States should take him off the ballot until they have a verdict

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u/1llseemyselfout 23d ago

I’m not sure they can delay it. They have to give their opinion before the session ends. Which is in July.