There is an article in today’s Baltimore Sun discussing whether or not a hypothetic president could be granted immunity for acts that would be unthinkable before the current situation. I cannot seem to do a copy-and-paste, but it was pretty frightening. One legal reported called the discussion “jaw-dropping”.
Justice Elena Kagan asked, “How about if the president ordered the military to stage a coup?” Sauer allowed that this could well be “an official act”, but admitted it certainly sounded bad.
I hope you all are as angry and frightened as I am.
He claims he’s an originalist, in spite of the fact that when the Constitution was written his marriage would be a lynchable offence, he wouldn’t have been allowed to vote, never mind study law, and most of the founding fathers would have keen over in a dead faint at the very idea of him becoming a judge.
Did you know that after the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers petitioned King George III to allow them back into the Empire? George was too smart for that! “You chose this democracy nonsense. Now you’ll have to live with it.”
At least if he’d said “yes” we’d have decent health care.
Well, I’m no fan of the current Supreme Court (Oh! Thurgood, where are you when we need you?) but if January 6th was an example of the people being the court of last resort, I don’t think that’s a good idea either.
There is an article in today’s Baltimore Sun discussing whether or not a hypothetic president could be granted immunity for acts that would be unthinkable before the current situation. I cannot seem to do a copy-and-paste, but it was pretty frightening. One legal reported called the discussion “jaw-dropping”.
Justice Elena Kagan asked, “How about if the president ordered the military to stage a coup?” Sauer allowed that this could well be “an official act”, but admitted it certainly sounded bad.
I hope you all are as angry and frightened as I am.
There is an article in today’s Baltimore Sun discussing whether or not a hypothetic president could be granted immunity for acts that would be unthinkable before the current situation. I cannot seem to do a copy-and-paste, but it was pretty frightening. One legal reported called the discussion “jaw-dropping”.
Justice Elena Kagan asked, “How about if the president ordered the military to stage a coup?” Sauer allowed that this could well be “an official act”, but admitted it certainly sounded bad.
I hope you all are as angry and frightened as I am.