@LouisIngenthron That's not at all what SCOTUS ruled.
Not only do presidents remain susceptible to legal penalty under this ruling, but the ruling even laid out the path for Congress to impose additional penalties against any president who would commit insurrection.
@LouisIngenthron they will if we stop re-electing jerks.
But we keep re-electing jerks.
And so we get the government we elect.
We should stop re-electing jerks, but history says we will keep doing it, so.
@volkris Justice that depends on having an elected body of Congress free from jerks is justice denied.
@LouisIngenthron meh. I wouldn't say this is about justice. That's more a matter of criminal law.
This is about choosing the administrator of the executive branch of the federal government.
Justice is about figuring out who needs to go to jail. This is about figuring out who we want to trust to tell the IRS how to mail refund checks.
@volkris That's an odd way to describe the CIC of the world's strongest military.
@LouisIngenthron the CIC who is nonetheless restrained by law.
He's not a dictator. The president has only the authorities vested by law, including with regard to the military.
The top bureaucrat charged with implementing congressional preferences as to how the military is to be used as well.
@volkris As we've seen throughout history, however, Congress won't impose shit if they don't have a supermajority of the opposite party.