The President Is Immune From Criminal Prosecution, So...

So thing is, I don’t want to live under a totalitarian regime regardless of whether I support one current leader.

Biden as a dictator might be better than Trump as a dictator, but I don’t want a dictator from any party.

Why not Seal Team 6?

1. He’s not a monster.

2. impeachment (which is not what the Supreme Court ruled in).

But yeah, trying to untangle “official act” from personal action (political motive, personal animus) can get tricky, more so for someone with the rhetorical habits of DJT than of JB.

You should read the decision. It does not make the president immune, it makes him immune from criminal prosecution in for actions in line with the job.

-If I were to arrange to have someone in a foreign land killed, it is a crime. If the president orders a hit on Bin Laden, it is not because under his power as commander in chief. He cannot be charged with murder. If he sends troops into war, he cannot be sued by the solder's families for wrongful death.

--If the President were to just come in and shoot the maid or an intern he COULD and SHOULD be charged with murder. No immunity for that, because that is not part of the official duties.

Police, fire, and any number of government workers all have some form of limited immunity so they can perform their job. This hasn't been a problem for over 200 years, it will not be a problem in the future.

The uproar over this is just to provide cover for Biden's historically terrible debate that exposed him as senile, and mentally diminished to the point of not being a functioning person, much less leader.

Lets not say Seal Team 6 but why wouldnt Biden rig the coming election. Is an official act of president to remain president and defend the country if Trump is a threat to democracy. In that case from his point of view it would his duty to rig the election. Besides if Trump happens to lose obv hell claim it was rigged anyway again.

Its going to be even harder for incumbent presidents to lose going forward. They already have solid advantages usually as long as things are going fairly well. Trump could/would probably have won in 2020 if not for the pandemic. If Biden had had two adequate debates he would have prob won now who knows.

The supreme court has really been fing things up. Neutrality in broadcasting Citizens United basically made us into an oligarchy already and now this. The justification for this decision with presidents will be scared to be prosecuted so they wont do anything is completely absurd. Committing crimes should not be a requirement for being president. The whole point of checks and balances is to have it so no one branch(or person) is so powerful that they can do whatever they want.

Agreed. Obama should be in prison for murdering countless humans in lybia and sending drone strikes in americans without court proceedings

Astounding.

You call for the Biden admin to jail Trump, Alito, and Thomas. You see this as a good thing

And then claim Trump will do this to his political opponents and that this is fascism.

Not one president who has not been guilty of the mass killing of civilians that I know about.

Carter? Ford? JFK? Ike?

If Trump truly is authoritarian and a dictator, why did the democrats want him to be the nominee?

Well, I don't want to, either. I am completely opposed to the Supreme Court's decision to provide for a completely unrestrained executive branch. Most people are. But that's irrelevant.

The reality is that Joe Biden is now basically Thanos, wearing the infinity stones, and choosing not to snap his fingers. That's great for his personal integrity and our now hospice-bound democracy in the very short-term. However, it is only a matter of time until a Republican gets elected to the presidency. If it's not Trump in 2024, then it will be another Trump wannabe in 2028 or 2032. And a Republican WILL take advantage of the new rules. That's why they were changed! Do you really think people like Bannon and Alito are just being hyperbolic when they say that they're engaged in a war/battle for America? This is their endgame. Project 2025 is available for all to see on the internet.

We all know that Congress can't/won't get involved here. Even if they did pass a new law to reverse this decision, the Supreme Court would just strike it down. The only way to change the new rules is to temporarily take full advantage of them. Failure to do so will result in a totalitarian MAGGA regime. And I fully expect that Biden/Dems will fail to do so. It doesn't have to be that way.

I don't see this as a good thing. I see this as a necessary thing. And, according to the laws that the far-right political activists on the Supreme Court have now established, it is also totally legal. They chose to raise the stakes this high. If you think this is a bad thing, direct your outrage towards them and the Congressional Republicans who have nothing negative to say about this insane ruling.

Actions in line with the job of a president include:

-Defending the country from a corrupt felons who instigate coup attempts.

-Applying the rule of law/government code of ethics to Supreme Court justices who secretly accept lavish gifts/bribes from billionaires.

Is murdering your hookup for underage girls to cover up the kids you raped considered a presidential act? Asking for a ‘friend.’

... the President can extrajudicially murder American citizens (including a 16 year old boy) and mire the country in trillion dollar wars based on false pretenses, as a start.