Comment by 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.
> 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.
> 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.
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.