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    5 months ago

    They have, and they haven’t. Intentionally. Basically, they defined what counts as Official acts but not Unofficial acts. POTUS only has immunity for official acts.

    So, say Biden drone strikes Trump and claims immunity for protecting the constitution or whatever. He immediately gets taken to court for murder, sedition, etc. The DC district court finds “yep he’s immune alright”. The ruling will get brought before the Supreme Court at which point they’ll say “oh actually, the president is immune from everything except drone striking political rivals - obviously the FoUnDiNg fAtHeRs wanted the president to be able to do anything EXCEPT drone strike white people. Biden, you’re guilty of murder and sedition now and will be summarily executed”.

    Then what. Civil war, I guess? All the “moderates” and “undecided” voters would make up their minds pretty quick and vote in whatever ghoul republicans put on the ticket. They’d probably use Biden’s action as pretext to crack down on all ideologies left of fascism. Say “trans ideology” is to blame and use the FBI and CIA (which they’ll then have complete control over) to imprison LGBT people en masse, then academics, political rivals, “the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country” as Trump said, etc.

    Who knows what would happen, because the entire political landscape would radically change and SCOTUS would never give Biden immunity to do jack shit - they left the ruling sufficiently detailed to stop all prosecution of Trump and grant him immunity for Jan 6, but sufficiently vague that as soon as Biden provides them ammo, they’ll immediately use it against the entire Dem establishment.