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In reply to the discussion: Biden can now officially declare Project 2025 a terrorist document order the arrest all named in it & attached to it. [View all]
Diraven
(1,898 posts)22. Nope
Only if a court agrees it's an official act and the the Supreme Court agrees with that court when it's appealed. The ruling today lets the current SCOTUS ultimately decide that only Trump is immune for official criminal acts, not Biden.
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Biden can now officially declare Project 2025 a terrorist document order the arrest all named in it & attached to it. [View all]
ancianita
Jul 2024
OP
trumpmafia -- rethugs, their oligarch funders (the Koch network), and six maga justices --know he won't.
ancianita
Jul 2024
#4
Start with Mrs. John Roberts. She knows who's who and what's what of how much.
Kid Berwyn
Jul 2024
#11
(Posted on X today): Look at the latitude Biden now has to work on "official acts," Can't one of them be to jail Trump?
red dog 1
Jul 2024
#42
Chill. A past President has ordered an American citizens killed in a foreign nation ...
marble falls
Jul 2024
#69
Exactly. Domestic terrorist planning document created by the writers, funders and distributors.
ancianita
Jul 2024
#18
How could they not, right? Dems and their president know how to use this law to stop a criminal mafia.
ancianita
Jul 2024
#19
He could take the precedent of FDR's internment camps of Japanese -Americans, and apply it to the GOP.
MichMan
Jul 2024
#77
It's perfectly legal for you to suggest such a thing! We have to win in November. This ruling can be used to that end
ancianita
Jul 2024
#21
Exactly. An official act is ordering arrests. Or invoking the Insurrection Act,
ancianita
Jul 2024
#55
It does potentially strengthen the Executive's power to defend the State
bucolic_frolic
Jul 2024
#23
Yes! also important would be to de-certify the Heritage Foundation which authored it
FakeNoose
Jul 2024
#24
Exactly, and all the pipeline that produced this domestic terrorism document.
ancianita
Jul 2024
#27
He could, and within hours that action would be put on hold by a Federal judge issuing an
kelly1mm
Jul 2024
#37
This decision only provides immunity for the President. He cannot do any of those things
kelly1mm
Jul 2024
#47
Biden can pardon all those who "do the deed." Pardoning has been ruled absolute today.
ancianita
Jul 2024
#53
Only for federal crimes. Murder is generally a state crime. The pardon power has always been absolute. nt
kelly1mm
Jul 2024
#54
That gives Biden's operations people a lot of latitude. There are 7 instances where "taking out" someone is federal.
ancianita
Jul 2024
#58
He would if national security is at stake (FL case). He would to preserve democracy (DC case).
ancianita
Jul 2024
#61