Akuden

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The Constitution bestows the power upon the presidential office onto the president. Not SCOTUS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Does it? I see one example that isn't violent.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Incorrect. Breaking the law is never an official act of the office, and therefore, cannot be protected.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder, what do you think the ruling changed? What can the president do now that the president wasn't able to do before?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yes, because it doesn't fall within the powers granted to the president via the constitution. He cannot sexually harass her. He cannot kill her. He cannot take bribes from her. So on and so forth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Funny how as soon as Democrats think they have some unlimited magic power all they can come up with is killing their political rivals.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

No. The president could not personally kill their maid.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

Falsifying business records is not election fraud is the eyes of the law.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

None of the judges on either side are making this absurd claim because it's in the constitution article 2 section 3 and has been settled for 200 years. The president has to follow the law.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump was president for four years, enjoyed all of this immunity already, and not one politician was murdered. Pretty sure we'll be alright.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Says right in the ruling it's up to the trails court to determine what is official.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (9 children)

A president can't claim immunity. The president has always had immunity for acts that the constitution provides the office.

The president has inferred immunity for powers shared with Congress.

The president enjoys no immunity for acts as a private citizen.

These are important distinctions.

You or I cannot bomb another country. The president can.

You or I cannot kill a maid. The president cannot.

Only acts used with the power of the office are immune. You can't use presidential authority to sexually harass your staff. That's against the law.

The ruling didn't change anything, nor was anything given. SCOTUS doesn't create the law. We don't have a magical genie godking president all of a sudden.

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