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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

I keep seeing post and comments like this.

You all realize it’s only immunity from criminal prosecution, right? It’s not instant dictatorship power over the nation. He’d have to order the assassination of Trump and members of SCOTUS to leverage the ruling for those goals.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Kill the SC then replace them with ones to sanction anything he likes?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Dementia. But hopefully one of his handlers arranges for this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Dems are controlled opposition. How many times do they have to betray you before you learn that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All this talk about Biden could do all of these administrative things that he can't legally, but it misses the point.

Say he pushes some illegal orders. He can not get in trouble for pushing them, but they can be legally challenged and shot down quickly. Especially when you can legally "tip" helpful justices.

He would need to do things that could not be taken back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

You're missing the point, where the president can now legally commit an illegal act, and call it an official act, before the lawyers can deliberate, he's rounded up dissenters in the government and had them shot. No amount of lawfare raises the dead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Those who are suggesting Biden do this or that, are forgetting the most important thing about coup d'état: his “followers” would need to actually act on his orders.

And even if they were to do that, which I doubt they would, I don’t think SCOTUS made the rank and file immune to prosecution. While they may have made it harder for Jan 6 obstructionists to be pursued, I’m pretty sure that’s limited to those Jan 6’ers. So anyone following Biden’s orders would likely see jail (or worse). Sure Biden could pardon them, but that would only happen if a) Biden was still president after a failed coup, and 2) the people being pardoned would need to be prosecuted first, which is lengthy, disruptive, and expensive.

This only helps republicans, because as horrible as they are, the one thing they excel at more than their capacity for hate is their ability to unify and work together. Democrats… yeah, ain’t happening.

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