Despite the prediction of Rachel Maddow that this was a “Death Squad Ruling,” the only thing that seemed to die was objective reporting and commentary in the wake of the decision.
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76 sats \ 2 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 8 Jul
Why can't Americans just vote out both these old men and find someone young and sexy to be the president. Wouldn't that make life easier and much more entertaining?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Jul
it's too late, Trump and Biden each won their party primary nomination process
Trump had to fend off DeSantis and Haley
Biden made sure RFK was not on the ballot
You can respect the process or opt for something arbitrary
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0277316049 8 Jul
Because despite the amount of complaining online about the other old guy, Americans still vote for their side's old guy because they don't think he's as bad as that other one.
Americans get the candidates we deserve.
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109 sats \ 4 replies \ @Bell_curve 8 Jul
Turley is good, very even handed and reasonable analysis normally
"If Trump gets elected he will weaponize DOJ and prosecute his political opponents!"
On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow warned that the Supreme Court had just unleashed death squads to roam our streets. CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen announced that murder was now legal (at least for presidents), while others predicted that the ruling on presidential immunity would invite “tyranny.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent gave credence to their hyperbolic theories. Sotomayor wrote: “The president of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
Unhinged verdict by Sotomayor... I thought she was a terrible pick based on her lower court opinions. New Haven Firefighters vs Mayor of New Haven especially
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67 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 8 Jul
It cracks me up. Specifically "murder is legal". It has been for many years. Not new. Most recently Obama. Remember the kill list and the Americans on it.
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154 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 8 Jul
Drone strike in Yemen killed American citizens.
Apparently immune because he is Obama and it was an official act as Commander in Chief?
On Monday, March 5, Northwestern University School of Law was the location of an extraordinary scene for a free nation. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder presented President Barack Obama’s claim that he has the authority to kill any U.S. citizen he considers a threat. It served as a retroactive justification for the slaying of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki last September by a drone strike in northeastern Yemen, as well as the targeted killings of at least two other Americans during Obama’s term.
https://jonathanturley.org/2012/03/07/obamas-kill-policy/
Even when Awlaki’s family tried to challenge Obama’s kill order, the federal court declared that the cleric would have to file for himself — a difficult task when you are on a presidential hit list. Moreover, any attorney working with Awlaki would have risked being charged with aiding a terrorist.
Of course, even those who hold an angelic view of Obama today may come to find the next president less divine.
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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8 Jul
No the two US citizens that are on the terror kill list. No capture, no trial. Just kill um.
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8 Jul
Here it is.
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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 8 Jul
Presidents already have full immunity for the crimes they commit all around the world, slauthering civilians and throwing survivors in the hands of radical groups, perpetuating the cycle of death. To fuel its war machine, America needs to manufacture new vilains, support them (e.g., Sadam Hussein, Talibans...) before fighting them and justify never ending war spending and the racket of the American people
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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8 Jul
Over the years and thanks to the No Agenda show you start to see patterns in the media and in the slimeballs that supposedly work for us. Fear. They want to keep us in fear. Fear of the other party. Fear of their dangerous ideas.
Sure, they aren't completely wrong but it is hyped up for effect. Fear is really their only tool now. They have no new ideas. They just want us to be so afraid that we will look past reality and vote for one of the clowns.
Its all so tiresome.
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54 sats \ 0 replies \ @160ed04091 9 Jul
I feel the immunity ruling opens up the possibility of rogue presidents engaging in conduct that we would view as unconstitutional
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