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Either the Left out there is not too bright or they are feigning ignorance regarding this ruling. They are complaining about “no man above the law” but if Trump wins and the Republicans take over, it will protect Joe Biden from almost certain prosecution for weaponizing the DOJ and illegal deals with foreign governments for his own personal gain such as China and Ukraine. Biden and Democrats come out way ahead on this ruling, not the GOP.
There is a difference between convicted felons and Fox news reports.
Lets all be honest with ourselves and put them both in retirement homes and start fresh.
Dems are willing to defend themselves in court because they seldom lose under the law. Its Trump and his cronies who do all the losing and want to avoid any prosecution.
He has created a circus with his SC appointments.
Interesting choices to quote both the trial court and the appeals court who have been reversed. Isn’t it precisely those decisions and quotes that have been overruled by the Supreme Court, which says that he DOES have multiple forms of immunity?
We’ve had a liberal scotus for at least 50 years, and even back in the 60’s and 70’s. Time for the idealist to get over it, and realize the pendulum swings back eventually. Best system in the world!
Most of those “liberal” justices you bemoan were appointed by Republican presidents, but you keep on telling yourself how liberal those courts were and how that’s the problem … not the drift of the Republican Party to what was the John Birch Society in the 60’s …
Dimming the chance of a pre-election trial? Shouldn’t read: Increasing the chances of dictatorship?
ALL POSTERS: Read the Article and Ruling before you comment further. It is wide immunity for OFFICIAL ACTS, not including UNOFFICIAL ACTS. It is NOT an across the board immunity.
And go on and talk about how narrowly defined “unofficial” is now.
It was about as nonsensical as Thomas’ new “historical precedent” standard on gun regulations.
So a President can do anything he/she wants as long as they “believe” it to be a threat to our country. As long as they believe it to be a threat they can act in their official duty to mitigate it. Some might say Trump is the biggest threat to this country.
An important point is being missed here. This ultimately isn’t about Trump or Biden. Broad presidential immunity (forget the parsing over official and unofficial acts because the Supremes couldn’t even define that) means that the president is above the law. As a result we, the people, are henceforth subjects of a king who can throw us in jail, disappear us, murder our family, deport us or get us fired from our job on a whim. No one can stop him or her … not the courts, certainly not Congress, and definitely not the police (Trump, for instance, has already promised he will give local police departments immunity for any and all acts). Think about the implications of that for you and your family. Is that the America you want to live in? Is that the America you want for your children and grandchildren? The whole point of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War was to throw off the chains of unrestrained rule. America was founded on the premise that no one is above the law. And this extremist Supreme Court just turned us into a banana republic.
Given the intelligent people who commonly comment on this site it amazes me the run to sensationalism. To suggest that SCOTUS has created unchecked possibility of a dictatorship is a bit unhinged. Look no further than the current administration’s applying “lawfare’ to the presumptive Republican nominee for the root of this ruling today
The Biden administration is the problem for prosecuting illegal behavior?
That’s rich.
IMO the same people calling things unhinged are the same folks who claimed that the Presidency would produce a more mature Trump. How’d that work out?
I think a lot of you are guilty of thinking the nonsense that happens around the globe won’t happen here … why won’t it? The rule of law just went out the window. Biden could have Trump eliminated and, what’s the consequences for him?
He’d been told up and down there was no election fraud. He lost every court case because there was no evidence. He wasn’t challenging law, he was trying to overturn an outcome that he didn’t like.
Now walk that one through. Let’s say Biden loses and decides to call out the military to stay in office, that’s an official act, right?
I love how everyone who doesn’t kiss the ring of the authoritarian who wants to turn America into Hungary or Russia is a leftist….
Poor sky screamers
So Joe Biden, after consultation with his advisors, determines Trump is a national security threat, a threat to our relations with allies, and likely to ally himself with our enemies (for example, his fledgling frienships with the Eastern European allies of Putin), and whose trade policies would damage the US economy and the economic lives of countless US citizens, and so determines Trump should be sanctioned with extreme prejudice. He makes that decision as an official act of the President, signs an Exeuctive Order to that effect in his capacity as President, places it in his desk drawer, walks into the next debate with Trump, pulls out a gun, and shoots Trump dead. Official Act? Sure seems like one…
Hey folks!! Have you ever heard of “impeachment and removal”? If Biden does something heinous, do you really believe the House controlled by Republicans wouldn’t impeach him????? the problem lay with the Dems in the Senate bc those sob’s wouldn’t probably convict the moron anyway!!!
I heard of it. Even used to believe that … until Senate Republicans refused to convict Trump because they claimed he was now a private citizen and immune from conviction and subject to criminal penalties for his actions … actions that left them running for their safety.
Of course they were, in several cases, the same Senators who said lying about a hummer from an intern in court was an offense worthy of conviction … maybe it’s just my values system, but it would sure seem to me that if Clinton was worthy of conviction, Trump was a lead pipe cinch …