Biden surrogates brushed off questions about reining in the court, while emphasizing the gravity of a second Trump term.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that American presidents have “absolute immunity” from prosecution for any “official acts” they take while in office. For President Joe Biden, this should be great news. Suddenly a host of previously unthinkable options have opened up to him: He could dispatch Seal Team 6 to Mar-A-Lago with orders to neutralize the “primary threat to freedom and democracy” in the United States. He could issue an edict that all digital or physical evidence of his debate performance last week be destroyed. Or he could just use this chilling partisan decision, the latest 6-3 ruling in a term that was characterized by a staggering number of them, as an opportunity to finally embrace the movement to reform the Supreme Court.

But Biden is not planning to do any of that. Shortly after the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Trump v. The United States, the Biden campaign held a press call with surrogates, including Harry Dunn, a Capitol police officer who was on duty the day Trump supporters stormed the building on Jan. 6; Reps. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas); and deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks.

Their message was simple: It’s terrifying to contemplate what Donald Trump might do with these powers if he’s reelected.

“We have to do everything in our power to stop him,” Fulks said.

Everything, that is, except take material action to rein in the increasingly lawless and openly right-wing Supreme Court.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 days ago

    My bad I forgot to igore Biden being complicit in literal Genocide and abusing his powers for that.

    What was Adolf Hitler known for again? Just ignore the Genocide part.

    • reddwarf@feddit.nl
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      4 days ago

      Gods, you are an insufferable twat. You are not wrong per se, just also a massive twat.

      Waiting for you to do your usual ‘blah blah…genocide!…blah bla’ routine…

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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        4 days ago

        Blah blah I want to ignore Genocide because I don’t care about 16.000 brown children getting their heads blown of and israel running over handcuffed elderly people with tanks.

        I’m just helping delusional Genocrats face reality. Liberals should just be honest and admit they don’t care about brown people instead of pretending that “Biden has a morals because the Genocide doesn’t exist”.

        • reddwarf@feddit.nl
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          4 days ago
          1. I constantly refer to killing children in Gaza as a unforgivable crime, hence my “you are not wrong” comment
          2. You make BS assumptions on what others think or the views they have and it always assumes others are somehow for genocide
          3. Screeching ‘genocide’ in just about every comment from you is borderline mental
          4. It seems you have this thing I call ‘pastor’ or ‘preacher’ syndrome. Always telling others what to do and think and assuming you have the pinnacle of opinions
          5. I was right in predicting you would respond in the same way, you are seemingly in a self serving loop, just like people in a cult would be like
          6. You are still a bellend
          • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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            4 days ago

            The “Genocide thing” debunks all the propaganda about fake Democrat moral high-grounds. It debunks every stupid pretend argument from Democrats. Which is why they don’t want to hear it.

            It proves there is zero excuse left for Biden to not abuse his powers if he truly wants to “save democracy”. He has already abused his powers for Genocide