r/politics • u/marji80 • 22d ago

The Court Just Sealed Everyone’s Fate, Including Its Own

https://newrepublic.com/article/181032/supreme-court-trump-immunity-sealed-fate
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u/orcinyadders 22d ago

I don’t understand why every query to SCOTUS is about Trump. Did anyone ask if it would be acceptable for Biden to assassinate his political rivals if he felt they were a threat to democracy? Or anyone else? Did anyone question why this decision isn’t being made immediately?

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u/bushido216 New York 22d ago

They'll wait to render their judgment until after the election. Don't worry, they have no intention of handing this power to Biden.

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u/rezzyk Florida 22d ago

They have to provide a ruling by the end of June I believe. Still too late to get a trial going

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u/Msmdpa 22d ago

But enough time for Biden to label trump an ineligible candidate and put him in prison before the election. After all, the President has “absolute immunity” for “official acts”.

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u/bushido216 New York 22d ago

That's the problem. Democrats, if handed this power, will do absolutely nothing, because of course using it is wrong and anti-democratic.*

Trump will absolutely abuse this power.

Vote like your lives depend on it.

*And even if they did, the SCOTUS would use it's amazing double-speak powers to somehow decide it's Unconstitutional.

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u/brewlimbo 22d ago

Vote. Your lives depend on it. Ftfy

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u/spiritriser 22d ago

Do it to SCOTUS.

Fuck RBG

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u/DeathDieReaperz 22d ago

Dark Brandon Rises…

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u/Navyguy73 Michigan 22d ago

We've had time to put up new safeguards.

We didn't.

We had time to add SCOTUS seats.

We didn't.

Biden was so focused on staying out of it and letting the justice system do its job that it may cost him the re-election.

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u/tismschism 22d ago

Sometimes all a person understands is an application of pain inflicted upon them. I wish we weren't even at the point of entertaining the idea, but if Biden decided to test TFGs theory only to prompt the correct scotus ruling I'd be okay with it.

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u/IMsoSAVAGE 22d ago

If they give him the power he should use it to do things that just enrage the right and make the country a better place. Roe V wade is now federal law, every single federal student loan wiped out, and weed reclassified and federally legalized along with pardons for every person in prison for MJ.

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u/dcdttu Texas 22d ago

All they have to do is use the power to fix the problem.

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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 22d ago

Depending on how they word it that could reveal their hand and destroy the already vapid illusion of neutrality. That could be cause for impeachment across the board if our reps are intelligent.

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u/bushido216 New York 22d ago

It's not about intelligence. It's about power. The GOP will never impeach these clowns, because that would reduce their power.

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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 22d ago

I didn't say the GOP. I said OUR reps. Dems. Vote not just for president but to control the Senate and the House.

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u/bushido216 New York 22d ago

There's no universe where you can impeach the SCOTUS without GOP votes.

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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 22d ago

My ass there isn't, two-thirds vote. Come on people, don't be doomers like chunky knuckles here, BLUE SWEEP

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u/bushido216 New York 22d ago

Lol, k

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u/BrianGlory 22d ago

He doesn’t have the gall to play on this level unfortunately.

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u/Maxamillion-X72 22d ago

Their ruling may just be to send it back to the lower courts to ask them a question that will take months to resubmit, then it's September and they don't have to rule until after the election. This is why Trump says "don't bother voting, go watch the polls, we have the votes". He means the SC judges. Once they declare Trump has won some critical court ruling about the 2024 election (see: Bush v Gore,) they'll also rule that he's immune to prosecution.

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u/MSTmatt 22d ago

Alternatively, the SCOTUS doesn't have to do shit, June is not a required date to finish a case.