NYT op-ed: As legal scholars, we really think if you consider these quotes from Blackstone and Coke and this AG opinion and trace the English common law history, there's a colorable argument Trump isn't breaking the law. Trump, same day: I AM BOUND BY NO LAWS! - ThreadSky

andycraig.bsky.social • 6 days ago

NYT op-ed: As legal scholars, we really think if you consider these quotes from Blackstone and Coke and this AG opinion and trace the English common law history, there's a colorable argument Trump isn't breaking the law.

Trump, same day: I AM BOUND BY NO LAWS!

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iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•5 days ago

lynp77.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well said!

savannahpeace.bsky.social•6 days ago

Geeeeeus NYT.

minkysma.bsky.social•6 days ago

Shame on the NYT for giving even an editorial platform to anti-constitutional fascist enablers.

greased7.bsky.social•6 days ago

In a lot of ways NYT is worse than WaPo

margeandfriday.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wrong again.

peterhowitt.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/peterhowitt.bsky.social/post/3lhmgamg5g226

zzztestaccount.bsky.social•6 days ago

cw-rt-lft-ctr.bsky.social•6 days ago

Said like a right-wing apologist. 😏 I'm sure some law somewhere - if we go back far enough - will justify most actions. However, first, pose the right question: What does the law provide for and forbid now?

enewman.bsky.social•6 days ago

English common law recognized that it existed in a monarchy

blueflower76.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh yes you are .

brennan-twiceborn.bsky.social•6 days ago

Anyone who's surprised by this sniveling cowardice from the NYT should check out their headlines during the AIDS crisis, the rise of the Nazi party and the rise of Italian fascism.

jtsdmpk.bsky.social•6 days ago

Seems like the President is making a colorable argument that he's not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, even... Hmm...

minkysma.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think in his mind, he's not...they've already dispensed with the US system as we know it, and feel they've been anointed to build another, one that turns to be pulled literally from their ass.

enewman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Love where you are headed with this

jeanmoulin4ever.bsky.social•6 days ago

batesv45.bsky.social•6 days ago

Vive l’Empereur!

/snark

corruption47.bsky.social•6 days ago

What collaborators wrote this? And how deep in the Federalist Society are they?

cnewman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is JD Vance visiting the boyhood home of Carl Schmitt while in Germany?

jeffreywmccoy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Next up, an op-ed on how it’s true that a President who tries to save his country breaks no law because Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the civil war.

lifeholds.bsky.social•6 days ago

Quoting a tweet i forgot to screenshot:

"Resist libs: Ehehe, let's see cheeto in Chief trying to implement these EOs once they hit the courts
Average judge: i love Hitler"

georgiaann.bsky.social•6 days ago

How's that?

millicentrandy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh fuck yes he is bound

sylvie-62.bsky.social•6 days ago

A republic, if you can take it back”

Your press was compromised years ago

Yes, it’s from a tv drama but it makes a point https://youtu.be/SDpZ7w9uNuc?feature=shared

blacswan.bsky.social•6 days ago

If he is not bound by the law then he has no protection of the law.

richardharrison.bsky.social•6 days ago

No, he has the protection of money and power. Who needs law when you have that?

sonofherby.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump cutting the legs out from his supporters is as inevitable as the sun rising each morning.

coconh.bsky.social•6 days ago

And just as sweet to see.

schroedinger.bsky.social•6 days ago

Reporters: why did Trump shit on the Resolute Desk?

Admin: the president would never shit on the absolute desk

Trump on Twitter: ITS MY ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO SHIT ON THE RESOLUTE DESK!!!1!1!

bindlestiff.bsky.social•6 days ago

🏆

barb99.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tomorrows Philly inquirer front page talks about Trumps pet peeves like paper straws and Pennie’s

barb99.bsky.social•6 days ago

What archaic word is color able?

readingwarrior.bsky.social•6 days ago

He is bound by impeachment and removal.

docbs.bsky.social•6 days ago

In other words, not bound at all.

readingwarrior.bsky.social•6 days ago

In theory, they could wake up. If, for example, he were to threaten to execute them for treason.

readingwarrior.bsky.social•6 days ago

Unfortunately.

hmskjld.bsky.social•6 days ago

Throwback to:

Government lawyers: "DOGE is just performing an ordinary audit".

Musk on X the same day: "We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."

hanson412.bsky.social•6 days ago

He has gone completely over the edge.

iscalus.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well his SCOTUS did make him immune to the law

kimmasters.bsky.social•6 days ago

Didn’t the Supreme Six say that?

ravenna321.bsky.social•6 days ago

History will be baffled by the headlines from these days. American democracy was being dismantled in front of their eyes, the biggest story of their lifetimes, and journalists were mired in minutiae. Failed themselves, their readers and their republic.

heykeriyawn.bsky.social•6 days ago

If you go back and look at old American newspaper headlines about Hitler, this moment, while gravely unfortunate, isn’t all that shocking.

Thankfully many independent journos are currently taking a more aggressive, critical tack.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-american-papers-that-praised-hitler/

insipidtwaddle.bsky.social•6 days ago

The contrast between Trump's tweet and the top story on the NYT homepage really says it all.

jlp2024.bsky.social•6 days ago

Peter baker?

stefsull.bsky.social•6 days ago

Christ!

angrymetalguy.bsky.social•6 days ago

My response exactly

lovewinzalways.bsky.social•6 days ago

To be absolutely fair, the NYT article came out before the tweet—it's not the NYT's attempt to cover the tweet (as people are interpreting it here).
But that doesn't make things much better.

stefsull.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm honestly more bothered by their sane washing the illegalities of what he and Musk are doing than by his tweet being next to it... The tweet merely underscores their stupidity.

minkysma.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump says things of this nature every day. He is a known entity by now.

roncampbell.bsky.social•6 days ago

Big Louis XIV energy. "L'etat c'est moi." But Trump will need a new, much larger toupee.

ladyaranea.bsky.social•6 days ago

They won't be baffled. Historians understand it today. Capitalism destroys democracies. Always has, always will. Especially when capital is allowed to own all the information networks and media outlets.