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Shire Jansen's avatar

Extra ketchup on the shit sandwich, giving credit where credit is due, hope King Biden applies his new special powers effectively.

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JCfromNC's avatar

Yeah, about that.

Notice that the courts reserve the ability to determine whether or not an act counts as "official" -- so you can be sure that while the current crop of Federalist hacks on the bench will always find a Republican POTUS to have been engaged in "official duties", somehow no Democratic POTUS ever will.

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Shire Jansen's avatar

I noticed today that they also reserve the right to change their mind, from just four years ago, same Chief Justice wrote this decision ( same plaintiff) in a different matter;

Roberts opinion written in '20 Vance v tRump included this;

In our judicial system, “the public has a right to every man’s evidence.”1 Since the earliest days of the Republic, “every man” has included the President of the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19-635

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