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mmasnick.bsky.social • 310 days ago

Wait, what?

Alito tries to turn things on their head, by saying that to encourage peaceful transitions of power, you need to give incumbents absolute immunity so they will leave and won't worry about prosecution later. This is the most insane thing I've heard today (and there have been many crazy things).

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drjamesjteeth.bsky.social•310 days ago

One of the liberal justices really needs to ask the question about what would happen if Biden ordered Trump snuffed.

nih-llamas.bsky.social•310 days ago

Or if he ordered SCOTUS snuffed.

mmasnick.bsky.social•310 days ago

They did. That was basically Sotomayor's first question

drjamesjteeth.bsky.social•310 days ago

Thank you. I haven’t caught any of the live post threads of it yet.

matt.stocum.us•310 days ago

How about if Biden orders a SCOTUS justice or 6 to be assassinated?

cv-danes.com•310 days ago

I'm so old, I remember when people used to think absolute power corrupted absolutely.

thedgeneration.bsky.social•310 days ago

Another (slightly more minor) "wait what?" moment was when Kavanaugh claimed that Ford's pardon of Nixon is now widely considered a positive/popular action...

lmfsilva.bsky.social•310 days ago

This is basically the mirror version of the "send every president to jail once they leave and release them if you can't find anything suspicious" weird twitter shitpost, except people are supposed to take that seriously.

shayelk.in•310 days ago

the pinochet argument.

bruceediger.bsky.social•309 days ago

Yes. They're going to grant trump immunity. The fix is in.

rusty.todayintabs.com•310 days ago

"encouraging peaceful transition of power" is a thing we're concerned with now huh? I wonder why

tomscocca.bsky.social•310 days ago

"Encourage" is quite a word choice

jodyshenn.bsky.social•310 days ago

We’re not dealing with Nixon here, this guy’s got informal army he’s been building

jodyshenn.bsky.social•310 days ago

I mean, lotta doofus in his army but also all those cops (including doofus)

atlessman.bsky.social•310 days ago

Alito has actually been this broken for a while.

His unhinged rant about how he was FINALLY going to make the American legal system respect Christians was his full-on crazy coming out party.

incompetusrex.bsky.social•310 days ago

Oh yeah. Alito mused that presidents might be incentivized to attempt coups if they know they might be subject to criminal prosecution after leaving office.

sababausa.bsky.social•310 days ago

yup

https://bsky.app/profile/sababausa.bsky.social/post/3kqxqhuqobs2y

kentindell.bsky.social•310 days ago

It was part of the deal to get Pinochet to go. Are they equating Trump with Pinochet?

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