• SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I’m far from knowledgeable on constitutional law, but skimming the linked ruling, it’s very vague and seems to basically say that the supreme Court gets to decide if something is constitutional or not. So a united executive branch and judicial branch can do whatever they want with impunity.

    They say the president has absolute immunity from criminal persecution “for actions within his conclusive and preclu- sive constitutional authority.” And he also has presumptive immunity for “all his official acts.” And ofc I’m sure it’s up to the supreme to decide what qualifies an an official act, whether the presumptive immunity should be upheld, and whether an action is within the presidents “conclusive and precious I’ve constitutional authority”.

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        Let’s be real. He’ll refuse to do anything meaningful with his power, hand over the dictatorship to Trump after losing, and then blame leftists and the youth while Trump removes everybody left of Romney from power.