The Trump legal team would need to be able to show that not only were the tweets examples of official acts – the supreme court held that presidents making communications to the public are a function of the office – that could not be used as evidence at trial, but that Merchan was wrong on the timeliness matter.
Part of the problem with bad actors not facing consequences is people who fucking let them.
Not acting in opposition to fascists is permission to fascists.
But [Biden] won’t. He’s a good man who believes in the America we had before six corrupt Republican Supreme Court justices changed everything. So Biden will, no doubt, continue to hold to the old laws, consequences be damned.
Trump, of course, will not be so restrained. The parallels between last week’s Supreme Court decision and Germany’s Enabling Acts—which were similarly ratified by the German Supreme Court right after Hitler took power in early 1933—are startling.
That collection of laws ruled that whatever Hitler said in the context of an “official act” instantly became the law of the land. For all practical purposes, as the nation’s leader, he became immune from prosecution under the laws that applied to every other normal German or elected politician.
In a very real sense, therefore, one could argue that the six corrupt, bought-and-paid-for Republicans on the Supreme Court just initiated the process of the Nazification of America.
I don’t know if it’s the “greatest democracy the world has ever seen”… but still…
Anyways… This is the stupidest of timelines, no doubt. Don’t know how we all got caught in this dumb trouser leg of history, but here we all find ourselves…
Not if he fails to act. Intent is irrelevant. Actions are what matter.
Current president doesn’t have this immunity, but next one will.
This doesn’t say anything about the current president. The charges are for Donald Trump, and they are saying he would not actually be a sitting president until then.
Cool, but if he is convicted, wouldn’t appeals just wind up quickly with the SCOTUS, which would then overturn them?
I mean, 6 of them are clearly doing everything they can to install him back in the White House, so…
You can even get it in great annotated comic book form:
I suggest sending a copy to 1 First Street, NE Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
no one is above the law.
or
no , one is above the law.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, but some men are more equal than others.
He is a pig, after all.
Factio Republicana delenda est
They’re working on it.
Someone want to explain why Trump calling for televised military tribunals to jail his political opponents (or worse) hasn’t caused outcry for the Republican nominee to drop out of the race?
Oooh, me! Me! Pick me!
Is it: because they’re all fascists?
