Thursday, July 4, 2024

Justices claim immunity ruling allows presidents to poison staff, have Navy SEALs kill political rivals

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justices-claim-immunity-ruling-allows-presidents-poison-staffers-have-navy-seals-kill-political-rivals

But although the majority opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts explicitly stated that the president "is not above the law" and immunity is only a factor when it involves an "official act" — the justices sent the case back to lower courts to determine if the acts at the center of Trump's case were "official" — the ruling raised a series of frightening possibilities, according to the trio of dissenting justices.

4 comments:

  1. Kind of ironic. Those who wrote the opinion say that the President would not have absolute immunity while the dissenting justices insist that he will.

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    1. Nothing ironic. They made a distinction through which any authoritarian president can do anything as long as he says it is official presidential duty

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  2. Also, the unspoken truth is that Robert's cleverly made his ruling overly broad so that if necessary SCOTUS can make a distinction.

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