We’re watching US democracy dying right before our eyes.
If Biden and the Democrats had any mental coherency and a spine they’d be using this ruling to their advantage and fuck over conservatives before conservatives get into office to kill democracy and the opposition parties.
Great! Now jail and/or execute the 6 corrupt justices. The problem just solved itself.
Dark Brandon, come out to play…
I wish. I saw the debate. His people might do some shit on his behalf, but Joe’s mind has gone. I wouldn’t want him managing a Denny’s. I doubt he’s been calling the shots himself for months.
It’s called sundowning which means he’s still effective while the sun’s up 😬
“He is sick”
Bullshit, that’s how dementia works - first you have bad days, then you only have good days left, then… it’s just days.
I am no doctor, but I do worry about what I see, as someone who has eyes? 👀
This will not happen. Democrats are fucking pussies and I keep voting for their pussy asses even though they don’t do anything.
If they were as freaked out by the democratic agenda as they say they are, they would never have made this ruling. It really shows that there is nothing to fear from the democrats.
Gotta elect that string of dictators disinclined from exercising their powers 🤷
Fuck this is so bad.
Democrats aren’t pussies. Democrats are another arm of the ruling class (aka the 0.1%). There’s a reason they act inept on these things. It makes for good theater which people eat up, but it’s all for the rich. That’s the biggest reason they’ve been remiss to move to the left. The only ones fighting for us are ones that are considered “progressive”, which are greatly in the minority. Once you realize this, a lot more of the democratic leadership actions (or lack thereof), makes sense.
Bastille Day is next weekend. I think that’s enough time to order and assemble a guillotine. IKEA has those, right?
So you’re telling me Biden could imprison SCOTUS and he’d be free from prosecution?
I guess they would need to decide if it’s an official act or not. But if they’re no longer in SCOTUS, and/or in jail/dead, how could they decide?
So, the United States is no longer a democracy. If a president wants to remain in power despite losing an election, they can, as long as they get the right people behind them, which is how every dictatorship works. What makes democracies different is that they have laws to stop that, and the supreme court just ruled those don’t apply to the president. There is no mechanism to stop them. You can say impeachment, but the results of an impeachment against the president are as much of a foregone conclusion as a North Korean election. The trappings of democracy does not unmake a dictatorship.
We’re no longer a democracy, and the only way we can ever return to being one is if we elect a string of dictators who feel disinclined to push their power as far as it can go. If we can do that long enough to get this decision overturned, we can have our democracy back.
You can’t impeach him when he officially drone strikes the vote.
This is why this election is so important. I know it’s said in every election but this one may be the last free* election.
That * is there because I know that Republicans have made inroads in red states, with many secretaries of state either vowing to not verify a Biden win or not affirming that they will certify the election.
Please, for the love of democracy and our Republic, consider volunteering as an election official or as an observer.
Not just the next election, either. We can’t afford to have a Republican president again until this has been overturned, or the party has undergone a radical reform
“This is the most important election of our lifetime” is gonna be true for every election until the GOP stops using any power they can get to inoculate themselves from voters.
We’re no longer a democracy, and the only way we can ever return to being one is if we elect a string of dictators who feel disinclined to push their power as far as it can go
The right to bear arms is provided to protect yourself from tyranny, both foreign and domestic. Less than 250 years ago we gave Great Britain the finger.
One thing I admire about the French is their ability to remind those in power who they should be working for, forcibly.
The whole process could be foreshortened by rapidly shrinking the count of filled seats on SCOTUS. Make it dangerous to be a conservative on the bench and see how many fuckwits still decide it is a career move they see as valid.
The United States Supreme Court is corrupt and illegitimate.
They’re in dire need of a visit from Seal Team 6.
Best I can do is meal team 6 aka gravy seals
Searching for Al Quesadilla and led by Admiral Snackbar, their mission is to combat hypertension.
Seems simple enough…
Biden’s actions on the Southern border are official acts, he has immunity.
Trump’s actions leading to 1/6 are not official acts, no immunity.
According to you, a person thinking logically and operating in good faith. All an authoritarian needs now is the judge, who can be appointed by the authoritarian themselveswith little oversight, to say whatever they want to do is an official act. We have an irrefutable king again in other words
This reminds me of another circular argument: Anything the president does can be considered “acting presidential” simply because they’re president. You might’ve thought that shitposting on twitter was unbecoming of a world leader, but once a president does it, it’s okay for a president to do.
An argument to protect a fool from public criticism now doubles as a defense against legal action.
That’s theoretically the structure here. The case gets sent back for the first judge to decide what acts were official, time passes, they say none of them were, an appeal happens, time passes, the appeals court agrees, an appeal happens, time passes, Trump is president so the question is moot. Or they decide they were all official to kiss the ring. Far right cabal rule America indefinitely.
The key thing they needed to do was introduce a new question to the original court. Outright declaring it all immune might cause riots and electoral consequences, but saying “it might be immune” means idiots will still think the engine of justice is moving along enough for the consequences both for Trump, the justices, and the larger fascist team to be irrelevant.
How can Thomas say both anything a president says to the DOJ is an immune official act AND ALSO SAY that Jack Smith is not legitimate?
It seems Biden has carte Blanche to sic the FBI/CIA/DOJ/ST6 on Trump. His very life may depend on wielding this power. Thanks everyone.
Thomas is very experienced with cognitive dissonance
Because he doesn’t care to maintain the pretense of justice. He and Scalia are tired of pretending and want to start on the outright fascism.
Scalia is doing whatever the opposite of rolling over in your grave is right about now.
“justice” boner has a new meaning
Also eww
He should sic them on SCOTUS instead
Holy shit this isn’t right. Perfect for dictatorship.
Perfect setup for Trump.
I see this upcoming election will be the final one. Nice work.
Outraged enough yet? No?
Expect a LOT more of this if you keep urging people to not vote this year. Because this is a tase of what’s to come.
Sounds like Richard Nixon would have had very little to worry about had this Court been around fifty years ago.
Which brings us to Trump…
Biden should dissolve the supreme court and re-appoint the 9 most activist judges possible.
They made this bed, make them sleep in it.
I hope you can appreciate that this would be the move of a tyrant. You don’t dissolve the cornerstone of law and order without actually destroying the foundation.
No matter how corrupt, this would be unconscionable.
Unconscionable, yes. Necessary, most likely. There are times when someone must wear the mantle of villain in order to be the hero who can actually do what is needed.
Also, the unconscionability of the act does squarely depend on one’s philosophical definition of “justice”. The conscionability of any decision is predicated on how one values the world around them. Personally, I lean towards a form of altruistic utilitarianism. As long as an act does not genuinely do harm, and it is for the benefit of the majority of people, it is good. If an act is harmful to some, but benefits the whole, it is justifiable. If an act harms many, but benefits few, it is unconscionable.
As for what OP said, I believe he mispoke or misunderstood the ramifications of the word “dissolve” in this context. What he described is not a dissolution of SCOTUS, but a forced full reset. Dissolution would be to eliminate it as one of the 3 federal houses of government, leaving only the Presidency and Congress to govern. Removing all members and pursuing filling the seats as the constitution dictates would not dissolve SCOTUS. It would be the same resultant event sequence if something happened and all of the justices died simultaneously. All sitting justicesl being replaced by the Democratic process of the country would be fine, and indeed, would be a good thing. As much as I love Sotomayor and Kagen, removing them would be necessary for it to not be a political action, but one which recognizes that the body is no longer able to do its sworn duty in its current state and it needs replaced.
United States of America on July 1, 2024 ceased to be a democratic republic representative of its citizens.
Someone needs to do Project 2029 figuring out all the most effective ways to abuse all of this bullshit. We need to detail how to define fascists as enemies of the state under their own rules. Figure out how to use their rules to place the nuts of every landleech in a vice and spin the wheel like we are on the Price is Right. We need to put every religious tenent on the walls of every school, starting with the Satanic Temple. Just point for point find the abuses in their entire plan, then we all make sure to kick as many of them out of congress and state and local governments as possible and start going ham on flipping every abuse like we are Jesus chasing lenders from the temple.
9 people decide to allow presidents to act as dictators
Well, 6 of them did.
The 3 who voted against were also part of the decision makingjgroup. What blows my mind is, that decisions like these are left to be decided by so few
And while their dissents were blistering and explicit, this ruling warrants more extreme actions. They should have be in the senate right now ringing all the alarm bells and calling the ruling and the court illegitimate. This is an “end of democracy” ruling.
So if Trump gets elected, all Americans elected him?
Do you hear yourself?
