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“(With) today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. For all practical purposes, there are virtually no limits on what the president can do. It’s a fundamentally new principle and it’s a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law even including the supreme court of the United States.”

Throughout his address, Biden underscored the gravity of the moment, emphasizing that the only barrier to the president’s authority now lies in the personal restraint of the officeholder. He warned vehemently against the prospect of Trump returning to power, painting a stark picture of the dangers such an outcome could pose.

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 86 points 1 week ago

Biden: The Supreme Court ruled I can do ANYTHING I WANT!

Also Biden: So I will do NOTHING! Please Vote kthxbai!

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago

Yes, because he actually cares about what the Constitution stands for, not just some adversarial power game. Claim the paradox of tolerance all you want, but fighting fire with fire here is just participating in the same race to the bottom that's destroying our democracy here in the USA.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago
[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net -4 points 1 week ago

Biden has moved worker rights and more forwards, what's your point?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

Like when he broke up the rail union strike shortly before that horrible train crash in Ohio that unleashed toxic black clouds over the town?

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You mean when the rail union got what they asked for, because all while Trump supported companies against unions,

https://michiganadvance.com/2023/09/27/uaw-president-says-trump-visit-to-non-union-michigan-company-is-a-pathetic-irony/

The rail union thanked the Biden administration for helping getting their demands through,

https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

"We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”

You're forgetting that the goal of unions isn't to strike, it's to protect their member's rights, and they got their rights. Strikes is one means of applying pressure, Biden applied pressure by other means

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