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Kent Pitman (@kentpitman) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 1.053 · Folger: 612
Mo 01.07.2024 20:56
Today's ruling on Presidential immunity by the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) has sweeping and scary implications.
John Dean (JohnWDean on the ex-bird site) wrote this about the ruling:
«“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
Richard Nixon, 1974
Affirmed, US Supreme Court, 2024»
The new Presidential immunity that SCOTUS has today conjured out of whole cloth WILL be tested by Trump AGAINST democracy.
The ONLY question before us NOW is whether such powers are tested FIRST by President Biden and the Democrats to DEFEND democracy.
My very strong belief is that Biden is not up to that. That's just one more reason Biden must step aside. He hasn't the stomach to do what needs to be done.
Things I've said about Climate and our failing ecology have equal application to the failing state of Democracy.
1. We are in denial. There are already attempts to explain why the worrisome scenarios that some have floated are just wild imaginings and not realistic. I would have thought that if I had not seen the long spiral down from 2016 to 2020, every day worst than the previous. And if I had not seen GOP state legislators dismantling voting rights. And if I had not seen Republican cronies getting installed in critical positions in government that might affect elections. And if I had not seen SCOTUS dismantling rights and protections of all kinds at a fast clip. There is at this point ZERO reason to presuppose moderation.
2. It is NOT radical to meet an extreme problem with proportional force. It IS radical to assume that failing to meet an extreme problem with proportional force will be enough.
This is also my problem with centrism, which characterizes Biden's policies and actions: a naive belief that things are not really that bad, and that maintaining the status quo has done well for us so far and so will continue to do well.
As Jason Kirk (JasonKirk_fyi on the ex-bird site) wrote today:
«The Dems, empowered by today's new rules to do literally whatever they want, will instead play by old rules that never actually existed»
My recommendation:
The sitting administration, Biden (or Harris if he steps down) needs to test-violate each of the likely situations in DEFENSE of democracy.
That is what Trump will soon enough fraudulently try to do (and SCOTUS has effectively said his fraudulent intent is irrelevant).
As I've said, I expect the Dems won't proactively test any of this. They'll passively pretend that it would violate decorum to do something like this. They'll leave violation of decorum to the next administration.
They want to believe that this can be a winning issue at the ballot box, but they are ALSO in denial about the idea that the vote will be accepted. Reports abound that Trump and his cronies do not plan to win based on numbers of votes but based on intimidation of voters and on legal challenges. And in the end, SCOTUS has given every indication that it's ready to twist itself into knots to rubber stamp the most ridiculous of antics IF they favor Trump.
I see nothing that the sitting administration is doing to prepare for any of that. I don't see them talking about it, I don't see any visible actions, and I don't trust that there are invisible preparations being done. They are in denial, and our democracy will pay the price.
#SCOTUS #PresidentialImmunity #Immunity #Democracy #USpolitics #Election2024 #Biden
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