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The Supreme Court DJT v US is an illegitimate decision and should be ignored by the courts.
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Could not care less about how this effects Trump or his pending indictments. He isn't POTUS anymore. Be worried about how this applies to happenings and actions taken by the POTUS from Monday and going forward from today.
Whether it is Trump, Biden, RFK , or Mickey Mouse. I do not want anyone in our country handed this kind of power. Go read Thomas' concurring opinion, it sets up the next domino to fall. Project 2025=The Enabling Act
Edit: Clarifying point, I am referencing the Enabling Act of 1933 🤦‍♂️
Wrong. This is the enabling act.
The president is the commander in chief. The president controls law enforcement and the intelligence community.
So, if there's a law that says the statute of limitations for a certain crime is 5 years, and the president orders the US Marshalls to arrest someone who committed the crime 6 years ago, the president can not be charges with a crime.
If the legislature moves to remove the president from office for high crimes and misdemeanors for the previous order, the president can order the arrest the members of congress who try to question his authority. The president can not be charged with a crime for doing this.
If SCOTUS tries to overrule the president, the president can order their arrest. The president can not be charged with a crime for doing this.
The president now has immunity for acts which involve the powers of his office, regardless of whether or not those acts are legal.
As previously stated, the only recourse at this point is to just ignore the ruling. Any illegal act must be viewed as de facto and de jure unofficial.
The ruling is nonsense and if it is given any legitimacy (and it already has been given legitimacy by SCOTUS, but thankfully they are only 9 out of hundreds of millions of individuals in this nation), then the nation is finished.
It's the only way out of this. There has to be prosecutorial and judicial discretion on individual violations of the law on a case by case basis. There can't be blanket immunity because otherwise we are no longer a nation governed by laws and institutional governance.
Congress can legislate what constitutes an official act or not. The courts can interpret the law to find something is or isn’t official as well. It’s not absolute immunity and the president can still be prosecuted and found guilty if he isn’t acting officially - which again, can be codified into law by congress, or found unofficial by the courts.
Determining and enumerating official acts - super cool and completely unnecessary step to determine if a crime was committed.
It’s not ideal but it’s the check/balance congress has. Legislation is the only realistic solution.