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Comment by throw0101a

3 days ago

An observation:

> This argument means that any time a president wants to invade a country "legally," he just has to get his DOJ to indict the country's leader. It makes Congress' power to declare war totally meaningless.

* https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2007450814097305734#m

Also, the irony:

> the administration's position is that American courts can hold any president accountable for crimes, except the American president

* https://x.com/SevaUT/status/2007433614657552640#m

Even if you'd accept this warped logic, I don't see how you'd get from "this was just a slightly more complex police action" to "we're gonna run the country from now on and take over the oil sector", legally speaking...