Trump is “absolutely” immune for “official acts” on Jan 6th, SCOTUS rules - eviltoast
  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    No. No, it would not. The cooler thing would be to deny SCOTUS in this. Their interpretation of this is far and away the wrong decision. Playing by the new rule only legitimizes it. Pull an Andrew Jackson, deny SCOTUS their ruling and continue as though nothing happened. Same with the end of Chevron deference and Roe.

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      4 months ago

      Wild response

      The idea od suggesting following any prior tactics of Andrew Jackson is revolting, as cool as your response is

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        Andrew Jackson was a racist pursuing genocide, but he was right that the court doesn’t have any inherent power to enforce its edicts. That was explicitly outlined in the Federalist Papers as a reason giving court “ultimate decider” powers wasn’t a problem.

    • TaterTurnipTulip@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Ah, right, certainly the next President will also behave the same way…

      This feels terribly naive. It would be one thing if we could cement into the Constitution that the President does not have immunity, but Congress can barely pass a funding bill, let alone an amendment. But failing to use the power granted to try and set the country on a better path just ensures that a dictator will rise who does not care about keeping the status quo. And Trump will have a rubber-stamp SC that will say any act he seems to be official is.