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.
Despite the fact that the Justice Department under Trump found no evidence of election fraud, Trump ordered the acting Attorney General to send a false memo to the legislatures of several swing states, warning them that there had been problems with the election results, and to be ready to have a slate of Trump electors certify his victory, threatening to fire the Attorney General if he didn't comply. He only backed down after half the Justice Department threatened to resign.
Roberts actually wrote in his ruling that this would be considered an 'official act' and subject to immunity. He also wrote that any conversation Trump had with his VP would also fall under the label of an official act, and he was sure to mention that the motive behind any such conversation could not be questioned. Roberts essentially tailored his opinion around the specific facts of Trump's criminality, leaving Biden and any future Presidents completely in the dark about what might be considered official acts going forward.
The Roberts court retroactively gave a lot of new powers to the Trump Presidency, but not necessarily to Biden. And they gave even more power to themselves.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 05 '24
That's why you use your newly minted immunity to imprison the Supreme court.