The ex-Trump fixer says he was summarily jailed by Trump to silence him—and says SCOTUS declaring presidents immune would turn a second-term Trump into a dictator.
Everyone seems to be missing the “in an official capacity” clause of the ruling. That is intended to force each of these cases to the supreme court, allowing them to rule what is and isn’t official capacity. Meaning, they can simply rule that Biden didn’t act in an official capacity and is not immune. The ruling is even more sinister than it seems on the surface.
He can make it official. He can make it as official as it gets. He can literally publicly sign this, in his office, with the press. Just because the constitution doesn’t explicitly say he can do it doesn’t mean it’s unofficial. The constitution barely mentions what authorities the president does and doesn’t have in the first place.
The problem with that thinking is the President is the Commander-in-Chief. He can tell the military to do anything, and anything he tells them to do is protected, because that power is EXPLICITLY written out in the Constitution, and thus is an official act.
Additionally, he could just hire literal hitmen and pardon them of any crimes. Official act. Fucking brownshirts are gonna be back.
Imagine if Biden with his newfound immunity decomissions the entire Supreme Court and raids it with military force just for the sake of tragic irony
Everyone seems to be missing the “in an official capacity” clause of the ruling. That is intended to force each of these cases to the supreme court, allowing them to rule what is and isn’t official capacity. Meaning, they can simply rule that Biden didn’t act in an official capacity and is not immune. The ruling is even more sinister than it seems on the surface.
He can make it official. He can make it as official as it gets. He can literally publicly sign this, in his office, with the press. Just because the constitution doesn’t explicitly say he can do it doesn’t mean it’s unofficial. The constitution barely mentions what authorities the president does and doesn’t have in the first place.
Immunity != authority.
Biden doesn’t have additional powers because of the ruling. Just can’t be prosecuted for crimes.
Immunity only benefits criminal Presidents like Trump.
The problem with that thinking is the President is the Commander-in-Chief. He can tell the military to do anything, and anything he tells them to do is protected, because that power is EXPLICITLY written out in the Constitution, and thus is an official act.
Additionally, he could just hire literal hitmen and pardon them of any crimes. Official act. Fucking brownshirts are gonna be back.
The hiring hitmen would probably not be an official act though. That’s why you use the military and pardon them of any charges.