I know they won’t do it, but if Dems had any guts they would just explicitly challenge Marbury v. Madison, and just start ignoring Supreme Court decisions. You know the right wingers would do exactly that if they were in a similar predicament with a 6-3 liberal majority court.
the SC completely invented their power from whole cloth and (almost) every subsequent administration has just gone with it
Democracy
People think that I’m crazy when I say the supreme Court is basically a toddler that adults are pretending has magical powers to not make them cry. It’s maddening, ignore the toddler!
sorry i hated learning government in school, i know the president could pack the court but you’re telling me they aren’t even obligated to honor their decisions and ignore them?
The supreme court has no explicit constitutional mechanism or authority to enforce their decisions, so they literally made one up, the idea that when they declare a law unconstitutional it just suddenly stops being a law.
Everyone just goes along with it because the whole country was designed from the ground up to prevent good things and only elect people who want to prevent good things. But there’s literally no reason the rest of the government couldn’t just go “thanks for your opinion but we don’t gaf”
I feel morally obligated to vote for whichever third party candidate says they’ll take advantage of presidential immunity and drone strike wall street.
“As President I promise to use my immunity to shoot the landlord of every single person who votes for me.”
Nobody saw this coming
Edit: sleepy Joe should use this precedent to Merc the court
Yea true the most progressive president ever hashtag should probably line up and shoot every conservative politician
I would vote if he promised to do this.
On the other hand
And drop an action movie line about “executive branch”
putting execution back into the execution of powers
“Do you want a revolution or do you want results?”
The results:
By far the most depressing part of this is that Biden and the democrats will do jack shit with it
If literally anything happens I will be both astounded and genuinely impressed
They wouldn’t want to, because it doesn’t matter to them. It makes their bogeyman Trump even scarier, and keeps that desperate cash flowing to their campaign coffers so both parties can play off one another while robbing the country, and the global South, blind.
Yeah; I’m not exactly expecting that they would do anything actually good even if they did something… I suppose a small part of me is hoping that Biden being totally out of it might mean he’d do something genuinely batshit.
Monkey’s paw curls… He starts a war with Iran.
They would use it to black bag leftist activists.
Literally why should the President pay attention to anything the Supreme Court says, then?
Like, why not just say that everything regulatory agencies do also constitutes an official act by the President, so WHOOPS! There goes your dismantling of Chevron, John Roberts. Regulations aren’t reviewable by any court now. Fuck you.
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Reminds me of that moment in the October Revolution where the people were begging the bolshevik’s to take power. The American people want someone to do and act on their behalf and this is what we are saddled with.
I can practically hear the panic of every AP US Government teacher dreading the “Separation of Powers” section and the inevitability of one kid asking a question about this court case.
I mean they already have to teach Marbury v Madison
That decision has 200+ years of scholarship to fall back upon. Teachers will need to intellectually raw dog the answers for the next few semesters until scholarship catches up or America abolishes itself in a fit of petulance.
You’re right
So that gives Biden free range to do literally anything, which he won’t
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Please just blow up the United States already. there’s no coming back from this one
If the Democrats actually believed anything even close to their campaign rhetoric about Trump being a criminal insurrectionist, they would now use their SCOTUS-granted authority to just have him black bagged. It’s now explicitly legal for Biden to do that if he genuinely believes Trump to be a threat to democracy, since safeguarding the constitutional order is directly within his remit as President. It would be an official act to neutralize an apparent threat to the nation, which is literally one of the explicit examples cited of something presidents are now immune to consequences for.
I would also black bag the 6 Supreme Court justices so they can’t opine on whether it is an official act or unofficial.
So what “official acts” of Trump’s did this case concern? Was this the January 6 stuff?
America is fucked. A giant anti woman church with guns and all the jesus and facism as you can handle.
Gotta say I missed not seeing doofy usernames like yours
It’s a family name
lol
lol, lmao
Napoleon bros we are so back.