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Summary

Chief Justice John Roberts is facing the consequences of the Supreme Court's broad immunity grant to Trump, as the Trump defies judicial orders and undermines the legal system.

In a controversial move, Trump deported Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador prison, disregarding a federal judge’s order and claiming immunity under foreign affairs powers.

Roberts issued a rare statement defending judicial independence.

Trump’s efforts to impeach the judge and challenge legal accountability reflect an erosion of democratic norms, prompting urgent concerns over constitutional crises and the rule of law.

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Roberts either undue what you've done or shut the fuck up. sick of these people. Mitch waited until he's damn near falling over and seeing his god now he's all anti-trump.

Fucking 2 faced goons

[–] Cargon@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

If he had any honor he'd kill himself for what he's done.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Televised seppuku! No honorable beheading.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If he had brains he would wait for a dem senate majority.

Unfortunately if he did so Trump would pick his replacement. So it wouldn't be any better.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Unfortunately these scum have no honor

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago

He also does not care.

[–] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] skytrim@reddthat.com 2 points 20 hours ago

No thanks - I know where he's been.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He probably sleeps just fine in a very expensive bed made with the finest silks and linens in one of the expansive bedrooms with en-suite bath of a luxuriously appointed estate

[–] skytrim@reddthat.com 3 points 19 hours ago

"finest silks and linens' washed in orphans tears and the blood of martyrs.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (5 children)

He might know it but I doubt he feels any actual remorse for it.

Honestly I'm just so disappointed that Democrats did fuck all with it while they had the chance.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Dems did a lot, and they always did so legally. Thinking that absolutely nothing happened under Biden or Obama is the lie that everyone wants you to believe.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

When HitlerPig "won" the election, we knew that the most prolific traitor in American history was taking over the presidency, with promises to literally destroy America.

Biden had full immunity, and he easily could have said "There is no eay that im going to allow a proven traitor, who is conspiring with Putin, to take over. I am remanding him to Gitmo, with all of his henchmen, where they will remain until all investigations and trials are resolved."

Sure, MAGAworld would have screamed but who cares? Better the treasonous minority scream instead of the decent patriotic American majority.

But Biden is the typical weak spineless weenie that nearly all of our elected Democratic officials are. So he put "peaceful transfer of power" above allowing a treasonous take over and destroy our Democracy. No wonder Republicans despise Democrats for their weakness. I do too, that's why I've been an Unafilliated Independent for over 40 years. I don't want to be part of either of their sick clubs.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It would have been really bad but I would have been briefly ecstatic if like all the key Republicans were just rounded up and shot for being traitors.

Probably be better off overall.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

In nearly every nation in the not so distant past, and still in many nations in the world today, on the evening of Jan 6, after the Insurrection had failed, HitlerPig and all of his evil henchmen and family would have been dragged out onto the White House lawn and publicly executed.


I had posted that statement many times on Reddit, and when I posted it on the day after his Inauguration, my 12 year, million karma account was permantently banned.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 hour ago

Reddit is a for profit private capitalist enterprise. It has no soul and no sense of right and wrong. I'm not saying we should execute their leadership, but i wouldn't be mad if they all died

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you forget that the immunity decision wasn’t for democrats. The court knows that Biden wouldn’t do shit and they would have stopped him if he tried what you said. The immunity decision was for their special boy Trump and only people that align with them ideologically.

This piece seems like bullshit. Roberts knew what he was doing, and did it anyway because he is a fascist just like the rest of the fedsoc judges.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Oh, yeah, I get it, but that's not how laws work. The law is a two-edged sword, and they aren't just for some people, they are for ALL people. Dems need to keep reminding the Nazis that the same laws they want to apply to Dems can also be applied to them.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

I assume he does care about keeping his power, though.

He has no power if judges have no power.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

He cares about his legacy, or at least he used to.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m just so disappointed that Democrats did fuck all with it while they had the chance.

That's what they're there to do.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago

Idk if the folks downvoting you are naive or just desperately clinging to the idea that someone out there cares about them. Either way, they haven't been paying attention.

[–] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He made himself redundant, if the executive order folding the justicial branch into the executive is any indication

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Identify specific acts Trump has taken to harm you that cannot be construed as core executive functions. This will give Roberts the chance to list some conduct that is—and conversely that can never be—a core executive function, to diffuse Trump’s notion that he can get away with murder. Hint: trying to impeach a federal judge is not, and can never be, a core executive function. Lying to American citizens about a foreign invasion is not, and can never be, a core executive function.

I don't see how the Presidential immunity ruling is relevant to Trump's current actions. So what if something Trump does is not a core executive function? The idea that Trump could face criminal charges right now, as the sitting President, seems far-fetched. It's especially far-fetched for these examples, which he doesn't need immunity for because they're not crimes.

[–] snrkl 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] goldenquetzal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks for sharing this. I hate when people share pay walled articles.