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President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecutionwould make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election.

Biden, under intense pressure after his disastrous debate performance against Trump last week, urged Americans to think carefully about their election decision and signaled he had no intention of dropping out of the race.

Criticizing the decision by the court’s conservative majority — which all but guarantees Trump will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election over his actions during the violent riot on Jan. 6, 2021 — Biden said it now fell to the American people “to do what the courts should have been willing to do but will not. 

“The American people have to render judgment about Donald Trump’s behavior.”

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He could drone strike all his enemies and their families to the third generation. He can do anything in an official capacity and there's literally nothing stopping him.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

So your answer of how can Biden solve the problem of unchecked presidential power and not having Trump stand trial is to use unchecked power and kill a bunch of people.

How exactly did this solve anything? Other then basically guaranteeing a civil war?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

With this ruling Biden can "clear" the Judicial bench and nominate new Justices, who would then reverse this ruling. One and done.

Now if you're worried about civil war, yeah, that's a legitimate concern. I'm pretty sure this ruling already puts us on the path towards civil war, though? As soon as we have another Republican president they're just going to start killing people!

Is your answer to just never elect another Republican president? I hope you can see why that's not going to work in the long run!

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Sadly never electing another republican president isn't a real option.

I'm not sure he's got the ability to clear the courts bench. I don't think he has the ability to do that. Even with this ruling. Be an interesting thought if he did

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

This ruling gives him the power to do basically anything as long as it's through the office of the president.

And hey, if he "clears" the bench and replaced them with better Justices then the new Court can just decide to not hear challenges to his actions clearing the bench. Or, if they heard it, make a special ruling i.e. it was legal this one time but actually unconstitutional every time going forward. Or even rule that he broke the law and force him to resign, but still not reinstate the previous Justices. Lots of options for solving this problem.

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