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If inciting an insurrection towards their own government is an action without legal repercussions, I don't see how the law would be less lenient about straight up firing a gun at an opponent.

I by no means want any party to resolve to violent tactics. So even though I play with the thought, I really don't want anything like it to happen. I am just curious if it's actually the case that a sitting president has now effectively a licence to kill.

What am I missing?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The ruling is limited to "official acts", but the same court is the one who decides if an act is official or not

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Feel like the next logical step is to throw the 6 justices in question into jail. They obviously can't rule on their own trial so...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why couldn't they? The supreme court is literally the final authority, and there is no mechanism to automatically remove a justice from the bench. There is an ethics code that says they should recuse themselves if they have a conflict in a case but it has no enforcement mechanism - two sitting justices have literally taken bribes in violation of the ethics code

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The obvious thing would be the 14th amendment due process clause. Can't have a fair and unbiased case against someone if they're the one judging it. Thats been affirmed as far back as The Federalist.

Beyond that, though I said it'd be up to the remaining 3 judges, I'm pretty sure it'd have to go up through the court system, and as Trump has shown, that can be slowboated to the end of time, or until those SC judges wisely decide to retire/get forcibly "retired", after which the charges get dropped and everyone goes on their merry way, and then the courts (crazily enough!) establish again that the pres does not have that kind of immunity so history doesn't repeat itself.

But I already know Joe wouldn't play that kind of hardball.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well since 2 judges are pro Jan 6 I’d remove them too as part of the conspiracy.