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Impeaching Every Federal Judge and Justice Who Endorsed Unitary Executive Theory
(cmarmitage.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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I was saying online in Aug 2024, right after the SCOTUS ruled that sitting Presidents were immune for all 'official acts', that the Democrats should have convinced Biden to immediately remove all sitting SCOTUS judges which the previous GOP admins had installed, all GOP-installed state SC judges, GOP-installed FBI, IRS staff, etc., impose maximum age and term limits for all judges, and explicitly limit the powers of all future Presidents and close as many loopholes everywhere as possible. I mean, what could they really do? They'd just handed all sitting Presidents including Biden that power, he'd be immune! Or they'd have their bluff called and have reversed their decision right there and then.
But of course the two parties are really not opposing, the Dems are just Controlled Opposition so they wouldn't dare actually fix things when they had the chance.
The thing about that ruling is that it doesn't grant presidential immunity. It was actually a power grab by SCOTUS.
As you say, the ruling states that presidents are immune for "official acts", but it also puts SCOTUS as the sole arbiter of what counts as an "official act".
Good thing the president can remove and install judges who agree with him.
The FedSoc jackasses didn't give presidents blanket immunity.
They designed a special kind of immunity that only applies if they say it does. They directly inserted so that they could say that everything a democratic president did was illegal.
I'm not a lawyer, but in my view the presidential immunity doesn't mean the president can do anything he wants. It just means he can't be personally prosecuted for his actions.
So it didn't give Biden the right to remove whoever he could: the legal process to impeach a Supreme Court judge would still hold. It just means that if he killed a political enemy, he couldn't be prosecuted for murder.
Still a shitty ruling though.
He could perhaps have the power to order people to be killed and Biden himself would have not faced prosecution