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Could this response be any more weak and flaccid?
Wake the fuck up! It’s not someone else’s problem to solve. It’s yours.
Be specific. Exactly how would he solve this problem.
It's not our job to solve it, he's the one that was voted in to figure it out. He's had four years, now has legal power to do just about anything, and came out with this response?
Yet here you are saying to do something and yet you can't come up with one specific thing
Why should I? I'm not the President of the United States who was just granted dictator-level powers.
Name one thing he couldn't do.
Personally (and since you're persistent), I think he should declare Mar-a-lago and Trump a threat to national security. Then, he should personally use marine one to liberate the residence.
Is that specific enough for you?
Christ you're obnoxious.
He's the only person in the country who can pull out a 9mm and shoot Trump in broad daylight without it being a crime. As well as every SCJ that voted for this immunity. He can then replace every SCJ he executed with his own appointments. If Congress won't approve his appointments, he can keep killing them until the vote passes.
This ruling is a free pass for dictators. All Biden has to do is act like one. I doubt he would, but he legally could.
So throw the country and what’s left of it in the toilet. Bad idea
Well, no, that doesn't sound official.
He could drone strike Trump though.
I think there’s more than enough examples in these comments to satisfy the curiosity.
Whatever should a recently unmoored, democratically elected leader do in the face of a blatantly undemocratic, unamerican ruling? He’s only just short of all powerful.
He could drone strike all his enemies and their families to the third generation. He can do anything in an official capacity and there's literally nothing stopping him.
So your answer of how can Biden solve the problem of unchecked presidential power and not having Trump stand trial is to use unchecked power and kill a bunch of people.
How exactly did this solve anything? Other then basically guaranteeing a civil war?
With this ruling Biden can "clear" the Judicial bench and nominate new Justices, who would then reverse this ruling. One and done.
Now if you're worried about civil war, yeah, that's a legitimate concern. I'm pretty sure this ruling already puts us on the path towards civil war, though? As soon as we have another Republican president they're just going to start killing people!
Is your answer to just never elect another Republican president? I hope you can see why that's not going to work in the long run!
Sadly never electing another republican president isn't a real option.
I'm not sure he's got the ability to clear the courts bench. I don't think he has the ability to do that. Even with this ruling. Be an interesting thought if he did
This ruling gives him the power to do basically anything as long as it's through the office of the president.
And hey, if he "clears" the bench and replaced them with better Justices then the new Court can just decide to not hear challenges to his actions clearing the bench. Or, if they heard it, make a special ruling i.e. it was legal this one time but actually unconstitutional every time going forward. Or even rule that he broke the law and force him to resign, but still not reinstate the previous Justices. Lots of options for solving this problem.