(July 2, 2024 at 4:26 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(July 2, 2024 at 2:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Biden should arrest and imprison the six who asserted Presidential fiat, for undermining democracy as well as being criminally stupid.
Something major needs to be done. It seems to me that this is a national security issue. The USA has long kept its external enemies at bay but we are now being dismantled internally. The nation is literally under attack and Biden has an obligation to act. He is the Commander in Chief and has now been given limitless official power.
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Actually, he hasn’t. The Court’s decision grants presidents immunity, not authority. This is an important distinction.
Let’s imagine that Biden, as suggested above, orders the arrest of those six bastards. A case could be made that, Constitutionally, Biden lacks the authority to do this. Since he consciously filled his administration with people who respect the Constitution, those people could, in good conscience, refuse to carry out the order.
Under the SCOTUS decision, Biden would be immune from prosecution for giving the order, but it doesn’t confer the authority to have that order carried out.
Boru
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