Comment by ceejayoz
4 days ago
It'd be interesting if Biden had taken the new doctrine of presidential immunity to heart in the last few months of his term.
4 days ago
It'd be interesting if Biden had taken the new doctrine of presidential immunity to heart in the last few months of his term.
A true hero would have done whatever it took to pack the SC and then resigned.
How would those confirmations have worked exactly?
The president is immune to prosecution for official acts. He could have "officially" arrested republican senators, if necessary.
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The most stupid idea ever. Biden, despite his frailties, was conscious enough not to do this.
I think they were just overly confident that they would be re-elected. Why throw the baby out when the bathwater is still warm?
Packing the court just means passing legislation. It isn't some criminal thing.
The court is an expression of political power. Expressing political power through it is not stupid.
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Biden shared a delusion with Schumer and first-term Obama, that the Republicans have a behavioral floor they won't gleefully take a jackhammer to.
Democrats are finally waking up to this, I think, given the recent retaliatory gerrymandering in CA and VA.
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"Whatever it took" is just appointing more judges. The president can do that. Unfortunately, the result would be that Trump would have just packed it the other direction and this case would have gone the opposite way.
Are you should that would have been a good idea?
Yes. Eventually people would get tired of the court getting packed every 4 to 8 years and maybe fix the core weaknesses in the system.
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> Unfortunately, the result would be that Trump…
...would have been sentenced for his 34 felony convictions and probably never get reelected?
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