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“To this point in American history, Trump is, fortunately, a class of one. The more that the Court tries to hand down a ruling that doesn’t reflect that fact (or that reflects it only through a fractured and fractious disposition), the more that it will be making an error for the…
“However long it takes them to do it, any forward-looking line that the justices draw will necessarily identify conduct that future presidents can engage in without any fear of criminal prosecution. Given how difficult a successful impeachment would be in our contemporary…
“In 2004, a relatively unknown D.C. Circuit judge named John Roberts summarized the ‘cardinal principle of judicial restraint’: “‘If it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more.’ Here, if a majority of the Court believes that the January 6-related…
"So I'm a constitutional law professor," Kate Shaw explained. "I have never taught my students about the doctrine of the criminal immunity of ex-presidents from prosecution, even for official acts. And that’s for the simple reason that there is no such doctrine.” In my 50 yrs…
This isn’t hyperbole. It’s not exaggeration. If anything, it’s understatement.
“The rapid and overwhelming use of force seems disproportionate to nonviolent student protest. It has further inflamed the already difficult dialogues that have animated many campuses this year—about Israel and Palestine, academic freedom, and where one person’s right to…
“What Alito did is essentially say: ‘I’m living in MAGA world.’ Which views this case as a totally bogus prosecution ginned up by totally bogus people as part of a vindictive prosecution by Joe Biden. And Alito is also implicitly saying that if Donald Trump gets reelected, you…
Can you imagine a real judge asking a question this dumb (spoiler alert: Alito did ask it): “If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is …that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter…
What a splendid chart, @AshaRangappa_ it’s easy to follow even for the unschooled and smartly constructed even for experts. Well done!
What a splendid chart, @AshaRangappa_ it’s easy to follow even for the unschooled and smartly constructed even for experts. Well done!
The @ColinJost intro of President Biden is truly worth listening to. It’s funny, moving, and razor sharp. ⬇️
The @ColinJost intro of President Biden is truly worth listening to. It’s funny, moving, and razor sharp. ⬇️
Colin Jost nails it!
Trump’s lawyer “acknowledged under questioning by Justice Barrett that some of the allegations against Trump do not involve official acts but private ones, so the prosecution could move ahead [immediately] with those charges and not others. But that wouldn’t necessarily delay the…
“Trump’s legal argument is a path to dictatorship. That is not an exaggeration: His legal theory is that presidents are entitled to absolute immunity for official acts. Under this theory, a sitting president could violate the law with impunity, whether that is serving unlimited…
The Alito Four seem convinced that “the sanctity of the Court and the laws and norms of our democracy will protect them. Anyone who has spent 10 minutes studying how democracies collapse knows this is idiotic, but it stems from the justices’ own hubristic belief that the Court is…
“A democracy cannot survive when its supreme leader can arbitrarily decide that it’s in the nation’s best interest to rub out his opponents, and then leave it to some future court to decide whether it was an official act, because he’ll get away with it as long as there aren’t 67…
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2K Followers 3K Following US citizen watching democracy die from abroad. No tolerance for lies or stupidity. Lover of all animals, travel, photography, good food and cuss words. No DM’s.“To this point in American history, Trump is, fortunately, a class of one. The more that the Court tries to hand down a ruling that doesn’t reflect that fact (or that reflects it only through a fractured and fractious disposition), the more that it will be making an error for the…
@steve_vladeck explains clearly why the game of writing an immunity rule “for the ages” is a game the Court can win only one way: BY NOT PLAYING! Chief Justice Roberts can avert disaster only by following his own advice: decide no more than is needed to resolve this one case.
“In 2004, a relatively unknown D.C. Circuit judge named John Roberts summarized the ‘cardinal principle of judicial restraint’: “‘If it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more.’ Here, if a majority of the Court believes that the January 6-related…
“However long it takes them to do it, any forward-looking line that the justices draw will necessarily identify conduct that future presidents can engage in without any fear of criminal prosecution. Given how difficult a successful impeachment would be in our contemporary…
"So I'm a constitutional law professor," Kate Shaw explained. "I have never taught my students about the doctrine of the criminal immunity of ex-presidents from prosecution, even for official acts. And that’s for the simple reason that there is no such doctrine.” In my 50 yrs…
Did anyone notice what Trump’s lawyer identified as the textual source of the novel immunity he claimed? It was the Art II vesting of executive power in the president for a 4-year term! But that’s the very clause Trump’s attempted coup sought to shred! His argument is absurd.
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“What Alito did is essentially say: ‘I’m living in MAGA world.’ Which views this case as a totally bogus prosecution ginned up by totally bogus people as part of a vindictive prosecution by Joe Biden. And Alito is also implicitly saying that if Donald Trump gets reelected, you…
Colin Jost nails it!
Jost: How refreshing it is to see a president at an event that doesn't begin with a bailiff saying all rise? And, I would like to point out, it is after 10 Sleepy Joe is still awake. While Trump has spent the past week falling asleep in court every morning.
The @ColinJost intro of President Biden is truly worth listening to. It’s funny, moving, and razor sharp. ⬇️
WOW! The way @ColinJost Honored his late grandfather tonight… “My grandfather, a Staten Island firefighter, voted for you, Mr. President. He voted for you in the last election that he ever voted in.” “He voted for you and the reason that he voted for you is because you’re a…
What a splendid chart, @AshaRangappa_ it’s easy to follow even for the unschooled and smartly constructed even for experts. Well done!
Can you imagine a real judge asking a question this dumb (spoiler alert: Alito did ask it): “If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is …that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter…
“A democracy cannot survive when its supreme leader can arbitrarily decide that it’s in the nation’s best interest to rub out his opponents, and then leave it to some future court to decide whether it was an official act, because he’ll get away with it as long as there aren’t 67…
The Alito Four seem convinced that “the sanctity of the Court and the laws and norms of our democracy will protect them. Anyone who has spent 10 minutes studying how democracies collapse knows this is idiotic, but it stems from the justices’ own hubristic belief that the Court is…
“Trump’s legal argument is a path to dictatorship. That is not an exaggeration: His legal theory is that presidents are entitled to absolute immunity for official acts. Under this theory, a sitting president could violate the law with impunity, whether that is serving unlimited…
Trump’s lawyer “acknowledged under questioning by Justice Barrett that some of the allegations against Trump do not involve official acts but private ones, so the prosecution could move ahead [immediately] with those charges and not others. But that wouldn’t necessarily delay the…
Right on, @AshaRangappa_ Of course he’d say such prosecutions remain fine with him if (a) based entirely on private acts and (b) undertaken pursuant to criminal laws expressly applicable to the president (of which there are just three or so).
Weird. In 2009, Kavanaugh wrote a law review article specifically contemplating criminal prosecutions for Presidents after they leave office, and noting that this possibility provides a check on a “bad-behaving or law-breaking” President. I guess he just changed his mind for some…
“We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…