@BenCisco Getting Trump into the White House is just a formality for implementing Authoritarian #project2025
The #scotus prez immunity decree clears the legal decks for "bold" and 'unhesitating (illegal) action", which is exactly how the rightwing describe the Project 2025 plan to turn America into Jesus-Iran West. #voteblue #biden
@JBShakerman no, the SCOTUS decision explicitly recognizes the ability to prosecute a former president for illegal actions in office.
If an action is not legal then the ruling doesn't apply to it.
@JBShakerman that's not really how it works.
To apply this ruling, an official (say, Biden) first has to demonstrate to a trial court the legal authority under which they acted. That will be far removed from the Supreme Court, and many different judges will be involved in any action along those lines.
It has nothing to do with presidential crime, but rather legal authority.
Only if the president acts without legal authority does the issue of criminality come to play.
@volkris But #SCOTUS decides when a Presidential crime is committed for official reasons.
The six fellow travelers on the bench will green light Trump lawbreaking to turn America into a Christian faith-based gangster state.
That was the whole point of the GOP judges slow-walking his trials -- to buy time to legalize his crimes.
This is a horror show. #voteblue #biden