What might the current president do with monarchical immunity to act? Sorry, that’s not admissible.
By Sidney Blumenthal (New Republic, July 4, 2024)
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If Joe Biden were as ruthless about his immunity as Donald Trump is, the union might actually stand a chance.
As it stands, he is refusing to consider any sort of action or regulation against the SC in any way, shape, or form. He is neither checking nor balancing a blatant power grab by the Judicial Branch (as currently co-opted by the Republican Party and Nationalist Christians).
I agree that the column presents a rather extreme scenario, but holy fuck, it’d be great if Biden was willing to go even a bit in the direction of malicious compliance instead of doing literally fucking nothing.
And more broadly: his outright refusal to take any action whatsoever in the face of clear, present, and existential danger to not only his campaign, but the Democratic Party, the Constitution, democracy in the US in general, and anyone who’s not a white evangelical, is an inexcusable abrogation of duty to his oath to protect and defend the Constitution. It’s dereliction of duty, plain and simple. That is why I now think Biden shouldn’t be the nominee any longer: he demonstrably does not have the proper temperament to respond effectively to a situation that has existed and gotten worse for the entirety of his first term. He’s done NOTHING to halt the judicial overreaches and legislatural ratfucking. I don’t expect that to change. After all, despite how much ink has been spilled about how his comments were “taken out of context”, he told us so himself.
Isn’t it congress that holds the balance of power for the sc now. They are the ones with the power to remove justices.
Previously I jokingly mentioned offhand the possibility that he might have been poisoned, but thinking about it more deeply given everything that is going on right now… now I am not so sure that it is outside the realms of possibility. We might (!?) be watching a coup right now, which if it happens slowly enough seems to have greater chance to succeed?
I would instruct my intelligence apparatus to investigate and report all activities of SCOTUS members, and publish real time reports on the Web. Time Roberts got a taste of what he enabled for the rest of us.
This seems like a fanfic, but the shocking part is that it is definitely possible : as long as 34 Senators agree with it. The only check on abuse of Presidential power now is impeachment. A President who gives this speech can act with impunity as long as 34 Senators agree to vote “no” on impeachment.
What kinda fucked up fanfic political porn is this shit? Yeah satire but what a waste of time.
