The Supreme Court has some explaining to do in Trump v. US
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4757000-supreme-court-trump-presidential-immunity/
The Supreme Court has some explaining to do in Trump v. US
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4757000-supreme-court-trump-presidential-immunity/
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Supreme Court: “LOL no”
Roberts acknowledged in his decision that “distinguishing the President’s official acts from their unofficial ones can be difficult” and that it “raises multiple unprecedented and momentous questions about the powers of the President”. He made a point of not expanding any further and, in sending it to the lower courts, made it known that Presidential acts will need to be determined to be official or unofficial on a case by case basis going forward.
In other words, that’s the literal extent of the guidance the lower courts will get from SCOTUS. The lack of any further explanation was on purpose.
Here is your explanation. 6:3 majority religious, right leaning partisan majority.
Explaining is for people who are accountable
Impeachment explaining…
SCOTUS will jump the shark when they have to explain why paying off hookers is an official act.
What’s to explain? Several justices are bought and paid for. They have probably destroyed democracy and a couple of them are proud of it and hope to do more damage. They’ll receive truckloads more cash and personal protection for their efforts. We’re an oligarchy like the Russians now. Soon it will be time to start arresting anyone that dissents.
The root of the problem is the Heritage Foundation and their supporters. SCOTUS is just getting a head start on Project 2025.
Do they? When you’re immune to consequences thanks to arcane representation laws which were created to keep slave states happy, you can pretty much do what you want. They’re just doing what they were recruited to do by a bunch of religious terrorists bent on minority rulership.
The president has presumptive innocence and legal immunity for official acts. Courts can’t question the motivation, intent, or communications of the president to determine if an act was official. Alleged illegality of an act also can’t be considered by the court to determine if an act is official or not. Courts explicitly cannot introduce any danger of intrusion to the authority of the office.
Good luck proving any act of the president is not official.
This. People obsessed about Biden Debate miss the forest for the trees.
It is not just Trump vs US
It is Chevron, Ohio vs EPA, SEC vs Jarkesy
They gutted the Federal Gov’t’s ability to go after corporations – SEC, EPA, and the defaulting to the experts in Federal Gov’t departments. SCOTUS just did a huge land grab stating the courts know better then the experts.
When trump ordered Seal Team Six to “eliminate political rivals” that would be an official act, right?
They explain to no one and have no ethics standards with any teeth. That is the issue.
Lmao the first paragraph of the article says essentially:
“the Supreme Court doesn’t really need to provide Context, hasn’t really….. But they do for this case”
Lol good luck.
They explicitly left the distinction between official and unofficial acts ambiguous so that they get discretion over which presidents face responsibility.
Alito is openly Christofascist, flying the flag at his home. They’re not even pretending.
Yes. Please have the Supreme Court write more on this subject. There is absolutely no way that could go wrong.
If the Extreme Court has a compelling argument as to why Donald Trump is more equal than the other 342,000,000 U.S. Citizens, then John Robert’s needs to go on National TV and explain their reasoning. Or admit all these years it was all just B.S. and we are all just peasants to serve the rich and boost G.D.P.
Lower courts will make the determination of guilt, SCOTUS overturns the ruling on appeal based on vague earlier guidance provided to lower courts. SCOTUS becomes the arbiter of presidential power depending on who they want in power
They may have some explaining to do; but we all know they don’t give a fuck. We aren’t equal to them.
Do they? It’s pretty clear what’s going on.
What breaks my brain is that Roberts was appointed by George Bush. The current court might have been brewing in the basement of some diehard Confederate in Texas, but I really doubt it had all the ingredients, let alone come to a boil. No, this is Roberts’ court. This is his legacy: enabling Trump. I really don’t think that’s something Bush would have wanted. Cheney, maybe, but not Bush. Not sure what happened along the way, and it gives me a headache to think about it.
The fact that they did this because they know the other party won’t take advantage of it is infuriating. If the democrats had the morals of the republicans, military action ordered by the president against the republican justices and trump would be considered legal by their own standards.
Here, let me explain for them: they’re in on the plot to turn this country into a Christofascist nation. Full stop.
They always explain themselves….to the people who take them on 6 figure vacations every other month.
>*Now, if an ex-president breaks the law while in office, they must decide on a case-by-case basic whether he or she is immune to prosecution.*
This is key. Since all of those decisions will eventually come to the SCOTUS, it means this is a huge power grab for the SCOTUS as they’ve placed themselves in the position of incredible power over the president.
Unless the dems run the table big in the house senate and hold the presidency. Then in turn expand the court and impeach two of the justices and frankly I think Thomas and Alito would step down but you still would have to expand the court.
If “explaining” is not in the Constitution as something SCOTUS needs to do – it ain’t going to happen.
Because they are accountable to who exactly? That seems to be the crux of the issue.
So Biden simply explains to the six monarchists on the court that he will officially throw them in Guantanamo until they resign. They will quickly reverse their decision.
Scotus says “Fuck your freedoms.”
Why? We know what they’re doing, and why they’re doing it. No reason to explain.
….all the reasons to impeach them all though.
Reform the courts, before they end democracy.
The entire bench needs to be cleared.
They have some resigning to do
All of these articles operating on the idea the conservative court is not totally corrupt and/or compromised.
The Supreme Court was our downfall. A partisan group of unelected judges serving for life that have made huge decisions on our rights. And they aren’t limited by ethics rules.
That’s a dictatorship with more steps.
The last 8 years of American political history as the rest of the world sees it goes a little like this Trump something something, lying,crooked, felon, must be punished, something something, no he won’t because money. Something something, GOP, something something, corruption, far right, Nazis, racist, mysoginistic, something something.Supreme Court something something, in Trump’s pocket, something something. We need to do something. Something something. Biden is old, but factually is actually doing a good job, something something, blah blah, too old. Something something president’s son has a big penis, here is photographic evidence. Put him in jail, something, something, ignore actual things that really matter to the country. Something something, we will do nothing, something something, because the whole system is corrupt, something something, it’s election time something something, not gonna vote, something something, all hail King Donald the first, the handmaids tale is reality and the world is gonna burn, something, something, fuck….
They’re compromised traitors. Nothing else to explain.