Paul Cantrell
This question from @StillIRise1963 gets to the heart of today’s SCOTUS decision:
The decision is vague enough to let these corrupt justices declare any particular president a dictator — but also vague enough for them to withhold that power on a whim.
They’re not turning •US presidents• into gods above the law. They’re turning •Trump• into a god above the law.
Those whom the law protects but does not bind etc etc.
https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963/112712510859683451
Paul Cantrell
For poetic reasons, I’d like to see the Biden admin issue an order to assassinate a few SCOTUS justices effective Aug 1, with a detailed rationale of it being part of executive duties and with a promise of full pardons for the assassins, and then let the courts react in a tizzy.
But only for poetic reasons — I don’t think that would actually accomplish diddly. We all know the score here.
Andy Nortrup :cascadia: 🌳
@inthehands @StillIRise1963 read in tandem with their shitcanning of cheveron last week the courts have set themselves above the other branches in totality.
They can decide what the statutes say, they can decide if executive action is within the bounds of the law, they can decide on immunity.
All without ever seeing something in front of a jury or developing a full factual record.
Paul Cantrell
I’m not the only one saying all this. Here’s @AnarchoNinaWrites laying out in a few short sentences how it works:
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/112712337876491428
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