I suddenly realized that these people actually believe that.

Not when anyone else is running it.

That is all.

scotus snakes be slithering~

He fully deserved to go to a special school.

Colorado Supermax...............

And there is no internet or cell phones for prisoners.......

"...presidents have to make a lot of tough decisions about enforcing the law..."???

Does he really think law enforcement is part of a President's responsibilities?

Do we really have a supreme court justice that is THIS uninformed about the structure of the U.S. government???

Where are the adults? President Biden needs to respond to this shit.

was going to double check what I thought I knew from high school government glass. JC. The dark money donors and fascists trying to dismantle are government don't seem to care what kind of morons are representing their interests. Well, if the fascists win this, they will crush their henchmen under their boot heels and piss on their remains.

is in the 18th century - pre-1776!

For him, George III would be "special" too.

Appointees are not required to know the law. They aren’t required to prove worthiness or ethical competence or compassion. They get chosen voted in that’s it. They can be totally sociopathic and a fascists pig and still be acceptable on the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has no requirements of anyone who becomes a justice and the constitution has no requirement or guidelines regarding Supreme Court justices. Tragic but true.

...I just assumed they would have to at least be attorneys if not judges already.

That is tragic.

there are crimes that ONLY a president can do. Ordinary citizens do not have the powers of a president. Doesn't mean he isn't subject to criminal law like everybody else. Alito turned the whole argument backwards.

sitting President can pardon crimes against the US, issue lawful orders as Commander in Chief of our military forces, sign or veto legislation, nominate and, with Senate Advice and Consent, appoint Ambassadors, Justices, and Article III Judges.

I have heard people deride the words, " It's not illegal when the President does it." The more accurate statement is that some actions are legal only for the President. Of course, The President can also schedule a colonoscopy and have the acting President do all these things while he/she is asleep. I was surprised when Cheney, as acting President under the 25th Amendment, didn't pardon Libby since Bush had only commuted his sentence.

took issue with Nixon? There are more people than I could reasonably quantify.

That said, it remains true that some actions (see my post # 49) are exclusive to a President, and anyone else attempting the action would find zero legal support. For example, consider a hypothetical Bernie Sanders declaring that he has pardoned Julian Assange for all past crimes against the United States. I don't see that argument progressing with any Article III Court.

Conversely, not everything a President does is accepted as within Presidential authority. If President Biden wakes up Saturday and announces that he has declared war against Russia, it would not be accepted as legal since the power to declare war is delegated to Congress (Article 1, Section, 8, Clause 11).

HE thinks that no actions a president takes are outside the purview of "official acts."
That makes him irredeemably STUPID.

Then have Joe Biden throw your ass in Guantanamo for subversion.

(I know, I know........won't happen. But it would GLORIOUS!!)

The fact one is dead makes no difference.....

Smarter too, and a far better debater and arguer.

In fact, at his hearing, a Democratic Senator slipped and called him Scalito.

that this guy, who took women's rights away from them, now says "special" tsf should not be subject to the LAW, is on the highest court in the land. This land, that is supposed to be a nation of laws and not men!

i want my country back. it's never been perfect but it moved in that direction. now it's a clusterfuck, just a clusterfuck.

pack the court.

we agree on what needs to happen

Besides Trump isn't president and the immunity isn't retroactive. Or they haven't said it was retroactive.
This whole thing is nuts.

blathering on about the divine right of monarchs to rule without being subject to any but the laws of the church, and not often to them.

But I think Trump skates in all of these trials

Biden should off the lot of them.

Do I need to add the sarcasm thingee?

The zealots on the courts have shown us who they really are and, sadly, they don't value our democracy.

IM fucking PEACHED!!

I wish Joe would make them irrelevant by adding a few more Justices to the Court.

That's in the Constitution, you know.

Rewriting the constitution like out of the Animal Farm Playbook.

We are living an Animal Farm reality.
Orwell warned us.

They believe that they belong to a very exclusive club where all the members are above the law. Seeing an ex pResident having to face the music is making them very nervous, despite the fact that they well know that DumbDump is a despicable treasonous scumbag.

If he thinks that, he cannot possibly judge impartially. And that is dirctly related to his ability to do his job.

Joyce Vance points out that the justices respond to hypotheticals fairly well, particularly when they get personal or close to it. Someone should ask,

"So you are saying that President Biden should be able tp kill you and face no penalty?"

I'd avoid Time Square.

Trump might be there, shooting visitors to make himself feel better since the Supreme Court may say it's his right a president.

Because that's essentially what they would be doing as a President could then just send assassination squads out to bump them off.

should be free to violate our laws?

Did Alito complain about Nixon or Clinton being given the treatment?

Something in it for Alito in considering being kind to Trump, I wonder what it is?

There is a deeply felt belief amongst the MAGAt hardliners that a second Trump presidency somehow holds benefits for them.

There aren't.

He could share a cell with the orange idiot. Of course, it would be an official act!!

a president could kill a political opponent. It is ridiculous, he should have been laughed out of court. But they
are seriously considering such a ridiculous argument. I think the so-called liberals should have just walked out.
Then we have that fat ass toad Barr saying he will still vote for Trump, it is beyond comprehension.

Alito wants to go all the way back to the good ole pre-Constitution ruled-by-a-tyrant days.

think Alito should get some special attention, like being removed from the SC!