Running SCOTUS thread

SCOTUS: The POTUS can’t regulate air pollution that drifts across state lines.

Also SCOTUS: The POTUS is immune for crimes committed during official acts. But we don't know if it's an official act yet. We'll figure that out later.

Seems ... odd.

 

Of course you're completely correct; however, the argument would be that within 2 years if Democrats could make a strong enough case to voters and people who currently sit out, then 66 is achievable. In reality, it's a pipe dream but you could say the same thing a few years ago about abortion bans and monarch presidents, and here we are.

 

They did misbehave but they’re Republicans. It’s different for them.

 

The future mega (not MAGA)-sized Dem Scotus will see it differently!

 

Goes right along with the idea that a president can pardon any crook who broke federal law that he sees fit to release. But by God he better not get ideas about relieving student loan debt.

 

I don’t disagree, and judges were actually mention by Jefferson in the Declaration for that reason.
But if you are a “textualist” the text of the Constitution does not say “life.”

 

It also says "emoluments" and "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

 

"Well regulated militia".

 

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