Would the Justices agree that the President can order

[enough]

the assassination of a Supreme Court Justice who is standing in the way of something the President believes is important?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. President Biden has a green light!

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[ancianita]

14. The court is really only ruling for this plaintiff, while pretending it's ruling for the presidency.

The CURRENT president would be disallowed to act based on their immunity ruling.

Not a lawyer, but most court observers on MSNBC would agree. Roberts will have to thread the needle for the rest when he writes their decision to kick it back to Chutkan, then later, when they get new district and appeals rulings on this case to do their thinking for them. Then follow or ignore as the presidential election helps them decide.

Were the court to let assassination be an official act, and done before Jan 6 2025, the nation would be rid of Trump forever. Yeah, I said it.

[Hekate]

20. "Is that how this works? " I'd sure like to be able to throw this out there just to chum the waters...

[Tribetime]

2. Excellent point

[crickets]

3. It's all about perspective, isn't it?

"I didn't think the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party president would eat my face!"

Some of the arguments and Supreme Court justices' comments today were off the charts. Just wow.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I wonder which one should be first?

[NanaCat]

16. Not necessary to go one by one

This will be in store for a bunch of liberals if this treacherous court rules there is no presidential immunity and TSF wins:



But it could also work in reverse. Their hate and arrogance blinds them to that possibility.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. That's why they won't rule that he has blanket immunity. Nt

[Diraven]

15. They'll just conveniently rule

That Trump is immune just for the things he did, but Biden doesn't have immunity to do anything.

[Wednesdays]

19. As I said in other threads: it'll be Bush v. Gore, version 2.0

The ruling will apply ONLY to THIS case, and not apply to any future cases.

[Hekate]

21. That was a lie the first time, and will be again. Whatever the Court does is a precedent.

[blm]

6. Probably a good idea to state this is a hypothetical question ala

the questions posed by the Supreme Court justices today.

[crickets]

7. Of course. The entire discussion is hypothetical, and this is not the first time today

that someone has made the same point:

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Annie van Leur
@AnnevanLeur
Jack Smith could stop Trump's immunity case COLD with one argument to SCOTUS

Joyce Vance:
[image text - "Why not take it a step further and tell the court that if Trump has the sort of broad immunity he claims he does, a president would be free to order the assassination of Supreme Court justices who disagree with him, and could not be prosecuted for doing that. Make the impact of Trump's argument unmistakeable."]
10:58 AM · Apr 24, 2024 · 50.8K Views

Somebody should point this out to SCOTUS, to put it in the record and to make them think about what presidential immunity really means. Every time I remember of some of the arguments being made today, I turn into a sputtering mess. It's so upsetting.

[odins folly]

13. Lets take it one step further

Round up all those fuckers in the federalist society and the heritage foundation and put them in a cell and then charge them with being enemies of the state...

[enough]

8. I understand what you mean, though it seems pretty obvious given what they were talking about today.

Your post is a good reminder of where we all are at this point.

[blm]

10. Just good to stay in CYA mode on a public forum.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Biden could order special forces to abduct Jesse Watters and forced him to watch Rachel Maddow 24/7 for months

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[TheRickles]

11. The best reductio ad absurdum I've seen. Thanks.

[mtngirl47]

12. I kept thinking that the President could send the Supremes to Guantanamo Bay

for the remainder of their lifetime appointments to the court. Theoretically, he or she would be immune since it would be part of their job.

[DemocraticPatriot]

18. Technically, I believe that the President can send anyone he wants

to the Guantanamo prison, under previously passed Republican legislation....

.... without justifying it to anyone, if he believes that they are a terrorist threat---

and the rightwing justices would seem to fall into that category, IMHO.

[DemocraticPatriot]

17. Or, more to the point, 5 or 6 Supreme Court justices ??

They are only justices 'for life', after all......

if they were "communist leftist justices",
they would probably be dead already!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. A Proclamation by President Biden👇💯👍✊ /s

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