• @[email protected]
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    185 months ago

    I don’t see any chance the supreme court could rule that he would be immune to charges for attempting to steal an election. If they were to rule he had absolute immunity it would be giving every president forward who wants to stay in office the right to just cancel the elections.

    That said, Clarence won’t want his name listed as voting against protecting little hands in this, so him stepping aside gives him the ability to not vote against, and look like he did the right thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      145 months ago

      Quite clearly the Supreme Court doesn’t care about national stability. So who can say what will happen. They’ve overturned decades of jurisprudence, so speculation is fun but we really have no idea.

    • @eestileib
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      105 months ago

      They already showed how it’s done in Bush v Gore: just declare the case can’t be used as precedent.

      • @winterayars
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        35 months ago

        The Supreme Court is operating under Calvinball rules.

    • @winterayars
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      35 months ago

      That is what they want, though. They want a dictator.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        They want a republican dictator. A democrat currently holds the office. If they rule that Trump can’t be held liable, there’s nothing stopping Biden from doing the same successfully. And that should terrify them.

        • @winterayars
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          15 months ago

          They have no intention of letting Democrats continue to be president, though.