Sotomayor Offers a Preview of What Trump Could Do as President - eviltoast
In a scorching dissent to the Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling, the liberal justice wrote that presidents will be able to assassinate a political rival with impunity.
    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Why not order the NSA to hack their bank accounts and just take the money?

      Everyone is going straight to assassinations, but there’s a whole lot that this immunity could accomplish before killing is needed.

      None of it will happen with a democratic president, because of norms that they apparently haven’t realized mean fuck all to the other side.

      • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        The president couldn’t be charged for taking the billionaires’ money but the money could still be returned. An assassination can’t be undone.