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Why is Colbert one of the sanest Americans?

@roberttsai @NewsDesk Biden might want to take advantage of that…

@michaelgemar @roberttsai @NewsDesk yup, if this argument holds up, Biden calls Seal Team 6 the very next day, right?

@Conville @michaelgemar @roberttsai @NewsDesk Democrats control the Senate. Democrats control more than 1/3 of the House. By Trump’s reasoning, Biden could immediately order the killing of Trump, every major Republican candidate for president, every Republican governor, every Republican Senator and Representative, and even if they are all replaced by Republicans immediately, if Democrats didn’t agree to impeach/convict, he’s fine.

@michaelgemar @roberttsai @NewsDesk

I have been hoping that the SCOTUS agree with this idea and Biden immediately has the 5 execrable Justices sent to Guantanamo.

@roberttsai Did they really think that would be a winning agreement?

@Chip_Unicorn @roberttsai I think the guy on the left is praying to God he is not collateral damage when tRump is hit by lightening.

@Chip_Unicorn @roberttsai it is incomprehensible tRump is not gagged & imprisoned

😲 Did one of them say that out loud instead of using their inside voice?

@pkboi

Trump’s attorney, John Sauer, tried to convince the judges that unless a president has been convicted by the Senate in a formal impeachment vote, he cannot be criminally prosecuted for actions he took while in office.
The judges appeared skeptical of this line of reasoning.
“You’re saying a president could sell pardons, could sell military secrets, could order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival” with impunity, said Judge Florence Pan, who was appointed by President Joe Biden.

@tdwllms1 @pkboi
#this
It’s such obvious bullshit.
Can you imagine being the appeals attorney reduced to making this argument? You spent decades in school, training, practicing, earning the right to argue before an appeals court, and that’s what you’ve got?
Or his other one about how courts don’t sit in judgment of presidents yet in the next breath that same decision notes presidents can be criminally prosecuted?
Im embarrassed for him and I don’t even know him.

@JoeStewart @pkboi

I can’t even imagine what the three judges did-said in chamber after they laughed and laughed and laughed… then just stared at each other…. Wtf next…

@tdwllms1 @JoeStewart @pkboi

Nervously chuckling about the sheer audacious absurdity for one of two potential heads of state come 2025 to be in your court making this argument.

@JoeStewart @tdwllms1 @pkboi

Trump lawyers, erudite, need to get a pair. They knowingly obstructed justice by backing crazy stuff from trump cesspool in front of the justices in DC, who command the same veneration as by Scotus.

@roberttsai So is he just out there suggesting that Joe Biden can assassinate him and that will be covered by presidential immunity? Damn, if that's the case...

Seriously, I think this is just another indication that he is suffering from progressive dementia, first because he even believes this, but second, even if he does believe it why would he be putting that out there now when he's not in power? Does he think he's going to be ressurrected if someone kills him?

I sure hope the Surpreme Court justices will take note of this if/when they decide any cases on the limits of presidential immunity!
#executiveimmunity

@roberttsai

It was mind blowing listening to this....

@roberttsai I listened to the hearing and context is important because the headline is a bit misguided. Their main argument is that the guy holding offce of President cannot be prosecuted after he leaves office for acts doen while in office unless House/Senate have impeached and convicted him first. hence he can kill opponent if he has majority and senate refuses to convict him (as happened after jan 6).

@jfmezei @roberttsai
More simply, kill (or any other illegal act) and resign.
His argument is obviously bullshit.

@roberttsai Well then Joe Biden should be briefing Seal Team 6 just in case the decision goes Trumps way, huh?

@roberttsai There is a fair value to the argument as the Senate is best placed to determine if the person who did a bad thing did so as President (eg: ordering drone strike against terrorist) or as individual (ordering drone strike against his political opponent). t is not challenged that as President doing stuff in the name of the nation is immune from prosecution.

@jfmezei @roberttsai

And if the President's illegal act was to arrest or kill all the people in the Senate who might vote to impeach him? (Ref. Pride's Purge)

Also, the Senate can also only impeach a sitting President, so if a President did something illegal in his last day of office, or the illegal act only came to light after he'd left office, there would be no way to prosecute him for it.

@roberttsai .....hahaha....can't make it up!!

@havvyhh2 @roberttsai

Have to see if The Onion can top this. Doubt it.

@roberttsai in regard to , most behaviour is…
Taste
Absence of decent moral and ethical standards

@roberttsai But they're pro-life and keeping us safe from terrorists.

@roberttsai

Ok. Listen, Joe. You are in charge.

@roberttsai before the arrival of Trump on the political scene, this headline would have belonged in a dystopian novel. The sad truth is the shock value which it should hold (for it describes the epitome of a fascist regime) has been drained by years of Trump’s constant batshit verbal utterings.

How does the US protect itself from a rogue ex-President seeking re-election? Are we witnessing the constitutional cogs whirring into protective action? If not, then how? The stakes cannot be ignored.

@roberttsai

FFS… lock this lunatic up, and remove his gang from the bar…

Or tell Joe he has Carte Blanche now!

@roberttsai is he imagining something like a pensioner version of the hunger games?

@roberttsai Speaks volumes to their assessment of both Biden's character (he's not the sort of person who'd assassinate a rival) and his intelligence (he's not dumb enough to believe this argument).

@roberttsai
A little voice is yelling "Clear and present danger", in constitutional terms
#treason #trumpcrimes

@roberttsai
The only reason to make this argument is to present it as a legal flaw that needs to be fixed.

@roberttsai So why didn't he do that while he was president?

@roberttsai @Jorsh If the courts make it legal, I know where our very next cruise missile attack should be...

@roberttsai Totally normal. I'm sure that's exactly what the Founders had intended. /s

@roberttsai that's quite the theory - I wonder if that also covers assassination of, say, federal judges on apellate courts

@roberttsai if you listen to prosecuting Donald trump, the whole thing was very surreal. I don't want to believe there are people who literally do anything for money, but how can you stand up in court in front of a judge and say "the president can assassinate someone and they're not liable for it" with a straight face.

@roberttsai "We ask Vladimir, he said was fine."

@roberttsai I don't like this trailer. I think the movie is going to suck too.

@roberttsai
Trump, unfortunately, is not known for his intelligence or a high IQ!

@roberttsai Do you close the headline of the year competition early in these circumstances @paulisci ?