• Veneroso@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    So letā€™s say, hypothetically.

    The president thought that people shouldnā€™t eat chocolate ice cream. Itā€™s anti-american.

    And ā€œfor the good of the countryā€ anyone who eats chocolate ice cream has to be isolated from the rest of society.

    Thatā€™s not an official act. Itā€™s not really on the periphery of official acts.

    But because definitionally, anything that, at the presidentā€™s sole discretion, is ā€œin the best interest of the United Statesā€ is now argued as an official act.

    Biden likes vanilla ice cream.
    But he isnā€™t going to detain you for unamerican activities if you prefer chocolate ice cream.

    Choose freedom! Choose chocolate ice cream!

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      16 days ago

      You donā€™t understand the ruling.

      It is not giving POTUS any additional authority. It grants POTUS immunity from criminal prosecution of a crime related to an official act.

      Biden could personally slap the ice cream cone out of your hand and get away with it, if a court ruled it to be an official act. No one else is immune from crime committed on his behalf.

      This was tailored to Trumpā€™s insurrection charges. If SCOTUS granted POTUS more executive privilege, Biden would just overrule SCOTUS and exempt felons from presidential candidacy.