• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    2 days ago

    In this case, I don’t think SCOTUS would be able to do much. They tied their own hands on the “official presidential act” thing. It would have to be up to congress.

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      1 day ago

      They conveniently forgot to define what constitutes an “official act”, meaning they can re-interpret the meaning of that on the fly in order to reward their friends and punish opponents.

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          15 hours ago

          Scotus is completely anathema to giving power away to other branches. No, if there is a question on what constitutes an official act it gets remanded to the lower courts.

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          1 day ago

          That’s not going to make this any easier or more difficult. Conservative officials all walk in lockstep.