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Don’t bother with this “user”. Look at their comment history. The person showed up today to defend this obvious act against democracy. My guess is a Russian/Chinese misinformation promoter.
You're trying to play it off like a joke, but that should really trigger some introspection.
Good. Fuck off then.
Probably is a total coincidence that you're saying this here.
The laws about that were just thrown out the window with this ruling. Everything is an official act as long as he was president when he stated it to he done. Ordering fries from McDonald's is now an official act as well.
You just showed us you didn't lol
If it were, Trump would have been behind bars years ago.
Trumps own legal team has described political assassinations as qualifying as an official act as president
Shoutout to Voyager for implementing Apollo’s new account marker. It makes spotting trolls really easy.
The Christian Caliphate was birthed today, and Trump will be supreme Ayatollah
At this point you need to present your evidence that they can't because SCROTUS literally said they can
But as an official act, the president can strip someone of citizenship.
What the fuck do you mean "lol". That is PRECISELY what this ruling does. It removes criminal liability for anything that is done as an official act, which is entirely fucking subjective, and up to the interpretation of a corrupt, coopted judiciary. Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.
You can organize a coup to overthrow the government and claim it's an official act, there's absolutely nothing stopping a president from claiming assassinations are an official act now. Hell, the commander in chief already organizes assassinations on foreign targets.
The Democrats might not abuse this, but the Republicans will, and they have given themselves carte blanche to start killing political dissidents.
Is this fascism yet, or are we waiting for the trains to run on time?
I think we all know that one of those two things will never happen in the land of the free and home of the mass-produced automobile.
But he can commit official acts that happen to be criminal. Semantics are fun!
Your logic doesn't even follow. Why would the president need immunity for a non-criminal act? Think about it for like 2 seconds dude.
Supreme court literally just said he could by saying Jan 6 was fine for President to incite
Have you been living under a rock?
Al-Aulaqi v. Obama made kill lists for Americans legal.
If they are traitors and terrorists, he may have to send them to Guantanamo.
Guess you missed Trump's entire presidency.
While i agree with you, it's a huge grey area. Like Biden could have trump assassinated and then claim that his constitutional duties require him to protect the cotus from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Official act or not?