Option C: donate shitloads of cash to Trump's legal defense slush fund re-election campaign, then if he wins get him to tell the DoJ to drop the case as an "official act" of the Presidency.

The GA case, Fani Willis’ conduct not withstanding, will likely be thrown out on the basis that Trump calling the GA SoS was an “official act”. The contents of the call, criminal as it is, will likely be deemed untouchable since it happened while he was committing an official act.

No, what I expect to see is the judge ruling that re-election is not (and in line with previous case law, never has been) one of the core or official duties of the President and therefore any acts he undertook in the furtherance of that aren't immune from prosecution.

And that's when Roberts will overthrow it, because they can't have their newly minted king missing his tee time rotting in a Georgia prison.

My dude, you're acting like Monday's decision didn't happen.

SCOTUS delineated presidential immunity into three situations:

1. Unofficial acts- no immunity.

2. Official acts- presumed immunity. However, no official acts can be used to determine the legality or official-ness of an act.

3. Constitutionally delegated exercises of authority- total immunity.

In other words, laws are subordinate to Presidential exercises of Constitutional authority. Under the decision rendered by SCOTUS on Monday, as the President is the Commander in Chief of the military, any order he gives the military he would have total immunity for and thus wouldn't be "illegal" as such. Also, because the pardon power is listed in the Constitution, there's no oversight for it either.

So yes, the President could absolutely order the military to assassinate a citizen with the promise of pardoning them, and there's literally no recourse anyone could take.

But that's not all. They also ruled that you can't use official acts in the process of determining what wasn't an official act. If Biden ordered the military to assassinate Trump, the fact that the President is Constitutionally the head of the military and that the military must obey orders from the President couldn't be used as evidence that he gave an illegal order.

This situation is fucked up.

This would be more widespread and far worse.

Conservatives have poisoned the soapbox with propaganda and outright lies.

They've diluted the ballot box with electoral politics and various tactics of disenfranchisement.

They've completely corrupted the jury box with unqualified ideologues.

How does America survive this without resorting to the last box? All because a group of assholes who have more than they could ever need want even more than that.

Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?

He's wrong either way.

Assuming the ones who are left would decide based on what's good for the country, or what's good for their principles.

Sotomayor is behind the times.

They're not "bribes" anymore, they're "donations" now.

Impeachment is a process for determining wrongdoing, which isn't the same as determining legal guilt.

Or to phrase it differently: there are things you could do that would get you fired from your job, but aren't illegal.

Much easier to destabilize the US from within.

I wonder how long it takes for DT to set in.

Is Bannon gonna be turning tricks for toilet wine by Friday?

You realize you just literally asked, "Why can't transphobes not be transphobic?"

Now you've gotten your inventory counts off. There's also a (marginal) cost difference between the two size cartons. Of course, this needs to be balanced against customer satisfaction- there will be a non-zero number of customers who won't want the upsell or to buy an alternative item, and so the question is how much business would you lose vs how much money you'd make offset with the extra time and corporate headache of reconciling inventory?

Not that Sonic shouldn't do this, just throwing out some real-world considerations.

Someone pointed out to me that the majority of what we consider "good" SCOTUS decisions came from the Warren court. Nearly every other case you could name you only know because of its detrimental effect on American progress. In that light, Roberts is just course-correcting SCOTUS: a branch of the government that historically keeps citizens from being too free.

"Now I'm not much for blaspheming, but that last one made me laugh."

4 in 10 Americans say SCOTUS makes decisions based on ideology instead of the law, but they're cool with that because it's their ideology too.

Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

In a civilized country, this would not be a political question, but, rather, a medical one.

You're talking about abortion, right?

No, it's birth control, isn't it?

No, I've got it this time- you're talking about trans care!

This is still bullshit.

"Emergency abortions" still give the forced-birthers too much leeway to decide when the mother's life is at risk. A woman should not literally be septic and her organs shutting down before she gets the care she needs.