‘A terrible disservice’: Biden slams Supreme Court immunity ruling, says it lets presidents ignore the law

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-supreme-court-immunity-ruling-biden-b2572243.html

32 comments

  1. This is what is considered “slams”

    We are fcking doomed.

    Holy fcking shit we are done for.

  2. This is the time we need strength, leadership and action the most. What we got was a 5 minute campaign ad read from a teleprompter followed by Biden turning his back on us and walking out of the room. Nothing. We got nothing.

    I’m so fucking done

  4. Silly, biden. The ~~King~~ president is above the law.

    Thus sayeth the supreme court

  5. Did we watch the same address?

    “Slammed” would be saying “I condemn the fascistic elements of our government who are nakedly attempting to engineer the framework for a successful coup d’état in broad daylight, and with the powers vested in me I swear to fight them with every ounce of power vested into me as president”

    We got “city councilor hates the deal the city got with a vendor at a music festival” energy instead.

  7. 2022 – Roe v. Wade overturned

    2023 – Affirmative Action cut

    2024 – Chevron Doctrine/ Immunity for Official Acts

    This doesn’t stop after four years you know. At what point do people in the middle give the left a bit more love in the Legislative and Executive to offset this bullshit. These are massive issues in our Country! What’s 2025 going to be?

  8. That wasn’t a “slam”. What the fuck are we doing here?

  9. Apparently we are gonna maintain the current course while the fascists steal the Republic right before our very eyes in broad daylight

    Ps ‘But we played by the rules’ will certainly comfort the homeless, lgbtq, dissident folks as the are led to the camps

    /S (if needed)

  10. It lets republican presidents ignore laws, dem presidents will still be prosecuted.

  11. Just as with Citizens United, the Democratic establishment is going to campaign off this issue but not actually DO ANYTHING at all, for years and years, while our democracy crumbles.

    “Vote for us to save democracy” is getting tired.

  12. The way everyone is panicking I guess they’ve given up any thought of a Democratic president actually winning the election. This is surreal.

  13. The worst thing about this is how well he spoke…

    Yes he had a fucking teleprompter, but comon

  14. Not only was that a listless speech, it was also shockingly short. That was, what, five minutes? I expected a half hour at least. Biden isn’t beating the unfit allegations.

  15. It was more of the “*When they go low, we go high*” nonsense that got us to where we are in the first place.

    Then more I digest the speech the more I feel like he has to go.

    This moment required forceful oration, anger and a sense of urgency Biden simply isn’t capable of conveying.

    He failed.

    Again.

  16. So do something, literally anything. Have a spine for once in your life. You were elected to the highest office in the land and you are telling us there is nothing you can do.

  17. What was the point of this speech? There was no executive language or any plan to address the decision in a directed fashion. He basically just walked up to the podium, dropped his pants and showed us he has no balls. Is this really the best leadership we can hope for?

  18. When we need a leader we have weakness. Fuck this shit. I once defended my nation and now I’m prepping my passport for the possibility I’ll have to leave

  19. Joe, let’s do some official acts. They clearly want it to happen

  20. Not sure what people are expecting here. Biden isn’t going to do some inane, fantasy idea people came up with like arresting the justices. He also can’t nominate more judges since the Senate needs to confirm them, and right now Dems only have a 51/49 Senate. Recently, Manchin said he wouldn’t support any Biden nominee in general if it didn’t have GOP support, and there’s no way Sinema goes along with any court packing.

    The solution to this problem was to vote in 2016. The bandage fix for this at the moment is voting this year and keeping Trump out of office. Trump is the real danger here, and only voting can stop him.

  21. I cannot accept a decision that eviscerates the United States Constitution.

  22. To be clear, the United States is only a democracy if each president from here on out decides that it should be.

    SCOTUS just gave each president the option to exercise tyrannical power.

  23. The supreme court has made it possible for Joe Biden to save democracy even if he loses the election. Now with his new powers he can say the election was rigged. Over turning an election is an official duty of POTUS. He can order the VP not to certify the election. That is also an official duty. He can now have trump jailed as a threat to national security. Again. Official as fuck.

  24. Everyone keeps talking about what Biden should do.

    Why isn’t the discussion of how us Americans are going to protest in the streets?

  26. Project 2025 just became a little more scarier. Let’s all do our part as true patriots and make sure it doesn’t become reality.

  28. The democrats are going to take the high road out of existence.

    The next Republican is going to completely upend the system now that the Supreme Court has fundamentally established the bedrock for doing so.

    Good luck everyone.

  29. If Biden really wanted to prove how terrible it was.

    He would make an example out of it.

  31. If only Biden were president and could do something about it.

  32. I watched that Biden “speech” he didn’t slam shit. We are fucking doomed.

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