If Joe Biden Were as Ruthless About Immunity as Donald Trump...
If Joe Biden Were as Ruthless About Immunity as Donald Trump ...
What might the current president do with monarchical immunity to act? Sorry, that’s not admissible.
By Sidney Blumenthal (New Republic, July 4, 2024)
If Joe Biden were as ruthless about his immunity as Donald Trump is, the union might actually stand a chance.
As it stands, he is refusing to consider any sort of action or regulation against the SC in any way, shape, or form. He is neither checking nor balancing a blatant power grab by the Judicial Branch (as currently co-opted by the Republican Party and Nationalist Christians).
I agree that the column presents a rather extreme scenario, but holy fuck, it’d be great if Biden was willing to go even a bit in the direction of malicious compliance instead of doing literally fucking nothing.
And more broadly: his outright refusal to take any action whatsoever in the face of clear, present, and existential danger to not only his campaign, but the Democratic Party, the Constitution, democracy in the US in general, and anyone who’s not a white evangelical, is an inexcusable abrogation of duty to his oath to protect and defend the Constitution. It’s dereliction of duty, plain and simple. That is why I now think Biden shouldn’t be the nominee any longer: he demonstrably does not have the proper temperament to respond effectively to a situation that has existed and gotten worse for the entirety of his first term. He’s done NOTHING to halt the judicial overreaches and legislatural ratfucking. I don’t expect that to change. After all, despite how much ink has been spilled about how his comments were “taken out of context”, he told us so himself.
Isn't it congress that holds the balance of power for the sc now. They are the ones with the power to remove justices.
Previously I jokingly mentioned offhand the possibility that he might have been poisoned, but thinking about it more deeply given everything that is going on right now... now I am not so sure that it is outside the realms of possibility. We might (!?) be watching a coup right now, which if it happens slowly enough seems to have greater chance to succeed?
I would instruct my intelligence apparatus to investigate and report all activities of SCOTUS members, and publish real time reports on the Web. Time Roberts got a taste of what he enabled for the rest of us.
Honestly I want to see him just start seal team 6ing the fuckers until they walk back this obviously fucked ruling. I'm not usually one for the stupid games stupid prizes cliche, but God damn is this clown court playing stupid games
This seems like a fanfic, but the shocking part is that it is definitely possible : as long as 34 Senators agree with it. The only check on abuse of Presidential power now is impeachment. A President who gives this speech can act with impunity as long as 34 Senators agree to vote "no" on impeachment.
Impeachment isn't a check, it's a gesture
When you eliminate all but those who would consent to it....
What kinda fucked up fanfic political porn is this shit? Yeah satire but what a waste of time.
It does read like fanfic, but the scary part is all that shit would be legal.
Political satire that shines light on real political absurdity is rarely a waste of time
You're not exactly wrong, haha. (Biden will never use his new powers to his advantage.) It's an example of the absurdity of the court and their decisions, and the things we can look forward to from the fascist cult in the coming years.
Sure it's fanfic as of July 5th 2024, but if trump regains the presidency? Hoo boy there's basically nothing preventing this fanfic from becoming a reality.
Thank you very much for copying this. I don't know why but that website would redirect to a poorly laid out mobile ad every 20-30 seconds.
I thought the site might be fine, but posted text anyway. May I recommend Firefox browser on mobile with uBlock Origin addon.
You know what would be a hoot? If Biden went on air and just read this aloud, word for word. Watch all the fascist-friendly corpo "news" wanks go apoplectic because outrage is more important than fact checking.
Copy/pasting the entire article is not allowed under lemmy.world guidelines. Links to archive.org are allowed.
Apologies. I now see it's literally part of the first rule. (On the web, it's literally "right there". But more hidden on mobile, Sync app, under About section that I apparently never click.)
... But why?