anotherneil
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Loaded questions have no effect on me.It's obvious to you that Presidents should be treated like kings? Wasn't there a revolution or something about that?
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Loaded questions have no effect on me.It's obvious to you that Presidents should be treated like kings? Wasn't there a revolution or something about that?
I'm not surprised.Loaded questions have no effect on me.
A president may have the power to legally do a coup and not be term-limited. It's unclear to me if that is legal or not, though. Is that a "official act" of his or her duties? Though even if it is not legal, a president currently is never prosecuted while in office. he can just be impeached and convicted, and that appears to be impossible in the current political situation.Does this mean that the USA is now ruled by a term limited King?
Then why did you bother asking me a loaded question?I'm not surprised.
I do not know.A president may have the power to legally do a coup and not be term-limited. It's unclear to me if that is legal or not, though. Is that a "official act" of his or her duties? Though even if it is not legal, a president currently is never prosecuted while in office. he can just be impeached and convicted, and that appears to be impossible in the current political situation.
Why not? You do it all the time. Like, "should Biden take drug tests before the debate?" That's loaded: an unloaded question would be "should candidates take drug tests before the debate?"Then why did you bother asking me a loaded question?
No, that is not what they ruled. What they ruled is a prosecutor needs to make the case whether it is an official act or not. Roberts said:I do not know.
From what I can tell, SCOTUS just pretty much declared that a sitting President has complete immunity for anything the sitting President declares is an "official act".
We do now...This SC has got to go. We have Presidents NOT kings.
You just showed that you don't know what "loaded question" means - find out what it means.Why not? You do it all the time. Like, "should Biden take drug tests before the debate?" That's loaded: an unloaded question would be "should candidates take drug tests before the debate?"
YepI have. Have you?
What was obvious about the ruling?Well gee, they ruled the obvious - imagine that.
Sotomayor has a penchant for hyperbole.And you read the dissent from Sotomayor et al:
"Looking beyond the fate of this particular prosecution, the long-term consequences of today’s decision are stark. The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding. This new official-acts immunity now 'lies about like a loaded weapon' for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation. The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
"The majority’s single-minded fixation on the President’s need for boldness and dispatch ignores the countervailing need for accountability and restraint. The Framers were not so single-minded. In the Federalist Papers, after “endeavor[ing] to show” that the Executive designed by the Constitution 'combines . . . all the requisites to energy,' Alexander Hamilton asked a separate, equally important question: 'Does it also combine the requisites to safety, in a republican sense, a due dependence on the people, a due responsibility?' The answer then was yes, based in part upon the President’s vulnerability to 'prosecution in the common course of law.' The answer after today is no. Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop.
"With fear for our democracy, I dissent."
Yup.I do not know.
From what I can tell, SCOTUS just pretty much declared that a sitting President has complete immunity for anything the sitting President declares is an "official act".
What else other than the ruling itself?What was obvious about the ruling?
start here;So they’re corrupt because, in your words, “They behaved within the letter of the law.” Got it.
In fact their ruling was so obvious that they should have never taken the case but referred it back as they did.Well gee, they ruled the obvious - imagine that.
No. Not even close.Does this mean that the USA is now ruled by a term limited King?
Wikipedia. Excellent!start here;
The letter of the law and the spirit of the law are two possible ways to regard rules, or laws. To obey the letter of the law is to follow the literal reading of the words of the law, whereas following the spirit of the law is to follow the intention of why the law was enforced. Wikipedia
Are you new to this concept?
Why not?No. Not even close.