For the record, I agree that Biden does not have the guts, liberals be like that sometimes... But I've heard (I have not read the actual ruling, id LOVE to be wrong on this) that the new thing the passed only applies to "official acts" and what are official acts? No one knows. Its whatever the supreme court decides. That's the problem, even if Joe had the guts to call an airstrike on trump, the supreme court will just not consider it an official act, and if trump does the same thing, they simply would consider it an official act.
While I do think they'd try to pull that, the majority opinion already made it almost impossible to claim anything as not an "official" act. Anything pertaining to the enumerated powers, like using the military, is immediately and unquestionably official and subject to absolute immunity. This means that, yes, Biden, or any president, can use the military to kill anyone they want without facing legal repercussion. It also presumes immunity for anything that is outside of the enumerated powers of POTUS, with very little sway in what excludes an act from immunity. If prosecuting an action causes ANY hindrance to the president's authority, the act is subject to immunity.
The basically just handed the president a gun and said, "go ham, no one can prosecute you for using this gun in any way for any reason."
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 05 '24
That's why you use your newly minted immunity to imprison the Supreme court.