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Comment by grandempire

16 hours ago

> he can't access anything the Legislature's laws say he can't.

Can the legislature make rules for the president without constitutional amendment?

I am interested- I’ll see if I can find examples.

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Terr_  14 hours ago

Well, if the legislature truly cannot make any statue affecting the President, that has some terrifying implications.

It would mean a President is is legally permitted to ignore laws against raping a child on the sidewalk outside 1600 Pennsylvania avenue Ave then murdering all of Congress by blowing up the Capitol.

Recently, a majority on the Supreme Court has claimed there's immunity for "Official Acts", but hasn't laid out any rule for when an official-looking act is actually an unofficial one... They're basically reserving the right to decide later. (Ex: Officially ordering the US military to kill Congress and Supreme Court Justices.)

Not that I want to give the current one any more evil ideas.

  • grandempire  8 hours ago

    > cannot make any statue affecting the President,

    I didn’t say affecting - I said limiting the power of.

    A regulatory procedure the president is asked to follow is different than saying “we made this information off limits”.

    > President is is legally permitted to ignore laws against raping

    That’s been beat to death. He would face impeachment + removal from office.

    • throw16180339  2 hours ago

      > That’s been beat to death. He would face impeachment + removal from office.

      Republicans didn't object to Trump's coup attempt, fraud convictions, past attempted rapes, or proven corruption. 70% of them believe that he won the 2020 election. There's no reason to believe that they'd impeach him for child rape unless she was the daughter of a prominent Republican. Trump would have the girl killed, send her parents to a gulag in El Salvador, and Fox News would call it fake news.

  • nisegami  8 hours ago

    There was a 5 minute period after that ruling was published that I really hoped Joe would take the ruling to its logical conclusion, much as you did.