108 points

If they rule he does I promise to riot every day. There won’t even be a point in maintaining the status quo as such a ruling would invalidate democracy

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If they rule Trump does then that means Biden does too. It would basically be giving Biden a license to ship them all to Guantanamo. Might be the only thing that holds back such a decision.

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Ship them to Guantanamo ? You’re too nice. If presidents have immunity, Biden could strangle him to death with his own bare hands on live television if he wanted to 💀

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25 points

Live on Pay-per-view & you’ve got a deal.

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5 points

Well Senate could convict him after being impeached.

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Biden would never do that because him and the Dems in power still worship the status quo and see Trumpism as a minor hiccup in their peaceful balance with the Republicans. The left will continue to get steamrolled by the right because of ineffective leadership.

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Euh, for you, Biden is Left? You should check out what left and right mean in politics IMO.

Also, I don’t think “the dems” do everything to keep some sort of imaginary balance, but because they are less terrible people, is all.

European here.

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Biden wouldn’t do shit and they know it.

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If they rule Trump does then that means Biden does too.

No it doesn’t. I guarantee they will do all the Olympic-level mental gymnastics necessary to craft the bullshit opinion in such a way that it applies to Trump but not Biden.

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If they do, Biden needs to immediately pack the court and remove lifetime appointments.

He should be doing it already IMO

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Removing lifetime appointments to the supreme court would require a constitutional amendment, which… Good luck with that.

Even increasing the number of justices on the court would need congressional action, which isn’t going to happen in this Congress.

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If Trump gets immunity, I’m becoming a terrorist.

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They haven’t botched anything as far as they’re concerned. The court agreed to hear the case so they could delay, that was clear when they didn’t act on the request to expedite.

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The fact that they did not immediately respond with “No, the president doesn’t have immunity from criminal prosecution. They are not royalty.” tells us what the eventual outcome will be.

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Not necessarily. They could decide they must come to that conclusion, but only after delaying long enough so the answer doesn’t matter.

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If they do make that decision then he could still be prosecuted while in office if reelected, which is how the system should work.

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I don’t think anyone expects anything good to come from the current lineup in the SC.

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“Botched” implies that this was done by mistake. This wasn’t done by mistake.

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The only thing that got botched is that thumbnail. Why do the Roman style columns look like an M.C. Escher painting?

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Because that’s what the image looks like. It’s not the thumbnail’s fault.

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seriously - wtf is with this graphic.

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What’s wrong with that?

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