I would actually love to hear from a supporter of that asshat. I would love to hear how they talk to their children about his behavior. Or do you just go to Old Navy and slap a wifebeater on your child and light some fireworks?
Ok, we can relitigate 2016 election until the cows come home. Not very productive. More critical is there are those ready to repeat. Biden is old. He is not progressive. His response to crisis in Gaza is disappointing. All true. So let's sit this one out and wait for the hypothetical perfect candidate. Do you want Trump with absolute power? Two choices. Yes or no.
"Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity, If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop. With fear for our democracy, I dissent." -Justice Sotomayor
Was Obama prosecuted for murdering someone? Was Hillary prosecuted for paying to plant false evidence against Trump? Was George W prosecuted for war crimes? I agree that presidents shouldn't be immune from the law, but the silly crap they are going after Trump for is...silly.
So Biden has 6 months to do whatever he wants to do and he is immune from criminal prosecution. I can think of a few things that I would like to do but I wonder what Biden might do.
He might be able to refuse to relinquish power if he lost the election by simply doing so many things that had to work their way through the courts. When he died, Kamala could continue it. Theoretically, there are any number of things POTUS now can do to get around the system as we've known it. Trump very well could win the election and never see the White House because it's all playing out in our oh-so-efficient justice system.
It was suggested a couple years ago that Biden might expand the Supreme Court so he could load it with liberals balance the ideologies. If he wins in November, what are the chances of him trying that?
Excellent question that was posed when it was discussed previously. Definitely sounds like a dangerous precedent to set. Guess they would just have to balance that precedent against the potential damage to be done to society by the current court's makeup absent any other corrective action (of which there seems to be none available).
The only thing keeping a president from acting like an absolute monarch is their own honor. Had this court been seated in 1973, Nixon would not have resigned because everything he did would be legal.
There's actually some reason behind that. The number of SCOTUS justices used to match the number of district courts, but now there are four more of the latter than the former.
