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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

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  1. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Alito is skeptical. That should tell you how it's going.
     
    Regan MacNeil, Apr 25, 2024
    #81625
  2. Justin_Rice

    Justin_Rice Well-Known Member

    I'm for sure impressed by the way Supremes and the attorneys arguing in front of them can cite legal precedents. For sure takes a certain mind, to be able to recall the names and details of cases like that ...
     
    Justin_Rice, Apr 25, 2024
    #81626
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  3. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    If SCOTUS rules presidents have total immunity, Biden should personally walk up to Thomas and Alito and put a round through their heads. He'll have immunity and can fill their seats.
     
    Driftwood, Apr 25, 2024
    #81627
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  4. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Following the live analysis from the NYT on the hearing, which is over:

    Looking back, one of the main points of discussion turned on the question of which situation would be worse: a world in which presidents, shorn of any legal protections against prosecution, were ceaselessly pursued in the courts by their rivals in a never-ending cycle of political retribution, or allowing presidents to be unbounded by criminal law and permitted to do whatever they wanted with impunity.
     
    MileHigh, Apr 25, 2024
    #81628
  5. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

     
    garrow, Apr 25, 2024
    #81629
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  6. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    It won’t do that. SCOTUS will punt it back to a lower court telling it have more hearings to more precisely define the limits of immunity, conveniently running out the clock before November.
     
    dixiehack, Apr 25, 2024
    #81630
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  7. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    This. SCOTUS knows full well it can't give carte blanche to a president to do what ever the F he wants and the only recourse is to throw him out of office with no further punishment. But I Know My ABCs, Beer Kavanaugh and Go Suck An Egg will not want to hurt their lord and master (Thomas couldn't give two shits. He's getting his and will protect it no matter what even if it means Trump could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue). They'll make it so he can just pardon himself and all of this is moot for another day.
     
    Spartan Squad, Apr 25, 2024
    #81631
  8. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Trump's lawyers in the immunity case arguing that a former POTUS could be imprisoned for policy decisions should have them thrown out on their rears.
    Nobody is prosecuting Trumpty Dumpty for policy decisions. He's being prosecuted FOR CRIMES.
     
    Driftwood, Apr 25, 2024
    #81632
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  9. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Remember, it’s always projection with these people. Biden will be in court by May 2025 if Trump is our next President.
     
    TigerVols, Apr 25, 2024
    #81633
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  10. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    This feels like it’s just going to end in more delays and no trial before the election. Absolutely disgusting.
     
    Deskgrunt50, Apr 25, 2024
    #81634
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  11. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Yeah. Feels like they will kick this back down that there isn't blanket immunity and for the lower court judge to lay out what can and cannot fall under immunity.
     
    MileHigh, Apr 25, 2024
    #81635
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  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Lede from the NYT's Adam Liptak:

    The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed poised on Thursday to narrow the scope of the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election.

    Such a ruling, endorsing at least part of Mr. Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution, would most likely send the case back to the trial court to draw distinctions between official and private conduct. Those proceedings could make it hard to conduct the trial before the 2024 election.
     
    MileHigh, Apr 25, 2024
    #81636
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