#SCOTUS essentially just ruled that any #President is free to commit #insurrection without reprisal so long as their party controls #congress.
It's clear that they don't have any more regard left for #democracy or the #constitution.
I'm concerned that there's a decent chance future history books will point to this as the start of the second civil war. Without any accountability imposed, the chance of #Trump attempting a more violent version of #J6 when he loses again is damn near 100%.
@gooba42 I think it might be simpler than that... We just slowly gave away our democracy and now our empire is ready to crumble.... and several other nations are ready and willing to take the title of "world superpower" off our plates.
@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.
@volkris As we've seen throughout history, however, Congress won't impose shit if they don't have a supermajority of the opposite party.
@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.
@LouisIngenthron With Russia agitating against Germany now, I think this is the "keep the USA busy while we fuck the rest of the world" push by Russia and its stateside assets.
Trump doesn't have to win, we just need to be so caught up in domestic chaos that we aren't able to make real decisions to support our allies.