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This is the guy who's teaching today's incels how to be men. LOL You're forgetting that these are the idiots who have tried to claim that this HAS ALREADY HAPPENED at Marafargo. Good thing it was an official act, and Biden can't be charged for it. LMAO

Right. All that matter is that he's not up to it right now, much less at any time in the future. trump's not much younger, and he's not half as healthy as Ronny Jackson would have people believe.

So that's how the military works huh, Capt. Staros? Lt. Col Tall disagrees. Every officer down the line does research on orders, and checks their legal dictionary before they follow them? Ok. LOL Further, Congress disagreed with you when McArthur was let go by Truman. Obama fired 2 generals. Bush fired Fallon. Richardson, Kimmel, and Short were fired by Roosevelt: The power to do so is inherent in the President’s Commander-in-Chief authority under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, and it cannot be fettered by Congress. Replacing them-Read number 2 Assignment as Combatant Commander.— (1)The President may assign an officer to serve as the commander of a unified or specified combatant command only if the officer—(A) has the joint specialty under section 661 of this title; and has completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment (as defined in section 664(d) of this title) as a general or flag officer. (2)The President may waive paragraph (1) in the case of an officer if the President determines that such action is necessary in the national interest. Well, it turns out that Roberts also stated in his 2005 hearing that the president isn't above the law, too. I'd say that any 180 decisions by any SCJ after they stated the opposite under oath should be explained, but to each their own. It seems you're perfectly fine with someone who is called "your honor" lying.

I'm not the one who's happy that he will never be held accountable for it. That would be all the laugh, vomit and eyeroll emoji clowns who don't/can't ever support a counter-argument. I didn't watch or read any media before I commented on this other than the basics, but thanks for the copy and paste of what Newsmax thinks. 100 to 1 odds I understand more about law and the Constitution than you or any other tin foil hat GQP supporter who thinks everything is simply the Democrats fault. You think the GQP would impeach trump? LOLOLOL That check and balance???

He's a master at finding loopholes, and has been doing it his whole life. Bottom line is any president has always been surrounded by White House council, who were there to advise on if he'd have that particular power, and the legality of it. The legality of it guys have now left the room, and are in the unemployment line. That's not a good thing.

The fiscal conservative party does not exist anymore either. Once in a while one of them will throw out a sound byte, but that's it. trump loves to spend too, so they keep their mouths shut. Ever had a socialist check, borne of borrowed money, sent to you with a democratic president's name on it?

You think Congress decides how the president can use the armed forces? Wrong, they don't. As long as the GQP holds either the House or the Senate, all they have to do is disagree with when to adjourn, and then the president holds the power to adjourn them both. He threatened to do it to get his appointments done before: President Donald Trump expressed frustration Wednesday that the Senate has not confirmed his pending nominees to various posts. “The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty that the American people cannot afford during this crisis,” Trump told reporters. The president warned that if the House does not agree to let the Senate adjourn, then he would “exercise my constitutional authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress” and make recess appointments for more than 100 pending nominees, especially those related to the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic aftermath.

Who decides the "justification"? Is there someone above the president, who decides that? No? If a general refuses, you can fire him, and have him court martialed. Then ask the next general if he'd also like a court martial. As for impeachment, the president has the power to adjourn Congress. Pretty hard to impeach someone, when you can't call into session. Will this happen under Biden, under trump if he wins? Probably not, but no president should have that much power. NONE. He discussed martial law in DC riots. His allies were also discussing martial law around Jan 6th as well, but MTG apparently "forgot" about that. No one got shot, so talking about it is fine? Oy vey!

The power in DC is supposed to be ours via our representatives. That has been hijacked by those with money, power and influence, and those influencers are supported by the SCOTUS. Now they have given even more power to one man, the executive. No small government person should be ok with any of this. This ruling goes far beyond trump, who may never even get the power, but it's there and ready to be used by the first executive who chooses to. The more power we give them the more they want to grab. Yes, we do live in that country. It was literally asked of trump's lawyer if he would have the power to assassinate people, and he said yes. The court agrees with that.

They seem to be fine with the notion that if a president wanted to be Hitler, he could very easily. Completely un-American, and some of these maggots came from being fine conservative Americans, who would have been aghast, had they not fallen into a cult. Fox news and even nuttier right-wing media turned them into mindless trolls. They're all going to light off firecrackers this Thursday to celebrate that 'the King' can come back anytime he chooses to. A good American NEVER relies on the good faith of his government's officers for his freedom. NEVER. It's OUR government.

We can start with placing laws that apply to everyone, including presidents, back in place. I know it hasn't been a day yet even, but can we start there. Not giving too much power to any one branch is important. No matter what, you literally now live in a country where Seal team 6 can murder you if the president says so. The clowns celebrating this, and saying it won't happen should still be VERY angry that it COULD.

Giving orders to the military is an official duty. I don't want to get too hung up on trump, because this goes far beyond him, but he has already talked about martial law and shooting looters. Again, I'm, not saying he's the nut to do it, but any order given to the military is "an official act", and that's indisputable. Now, who will our future nutjob president, who has bad intentions, appoint as his generals, because they are the only hope of stopping it. I'd assume he'd just replace them if they refused anyways.

If you want to sleep well under authoritarian rule, then you're one hell of an American. Then again, how does a troll even know when it's daytime anyways?

Olbermann is a nutjob, but his hypotheticals aren't that far off. We literally just handed way too much power to the executive. Ironically, 3 days before July 4th. It certainly won't feel the same for me. I'm trying to imagine the history books looking back at a lawyer answering yes to the question of could a president use Seal Team 6 to assassinate Americans, and they agreed.

Oh cute, start with worst case scenario(Seal Team 6), then go with the most benign, and ignore all the good stuff in between. Nice. They just handed a TON of power to one branch, and make jokes. God I love the small government authoritarians.

It's called the suspension clause. Ben won't look it up, and he doesn't want you to either, but you certainly can if you want. Just call immigration an "invasion" or protest at a federal building a "rebellion", and your habeus corpus is gone. POOF!

Oh, it's intentional alright. I would literally accept just about anyone who ran as a moderate. The only far left policies that are really hurting him is immigration. You're acting like all he did is attempt to get far left policies only, and that's not true at all.

So when some president murders citizens, are you going to glad they weren't charged? To think that lawfare is so awful right now, that we need a king(who can now do much, much worse) is straight crazy. Btw, using collateral damage is about as weak of bs as you could possibly use, but maybe that's all you got.

So who walks up to him with the Constitution in hand, and says, sorry sir, but you can't do that? The Constitution says he controls the military, and that's IT! maybe if you read the Constitution, you'd realize that most of it is very vague, and mostly just a few lines, Do you think the SCOTUS follows him around in a black entourage to make sure he's only performing 'official duties'? How many times a week do you tell your boss/owner no, because that's what the employee manual says? He'd fire you in a heartbeat, and hire someone who isn't insubordinate. Do you suppose presidents could do that too? I've already made it clear we have to look at this beyond trump and Biden. You're going to be happy living and thinking that everything is going to be fine, even though at any time one man has the power to say, the hell it is. LOL

Ok, so we just put our democracy in check, because we're worried that some 70-year-old ex-presidents might be treated unfairly? That outweighs the good that law and order for all, including the president was providing. That's completely ridiculous and insane. To protect that one guy, which btw has never spent a minute in jail in our history, we had to cave to the idea that he could legally murder citizens and political opponents at will with no justice. Asinine!

We need to stop thinking in terms of Biden and trump with this decision, because it may stand for a long time, and if/when someone does decide to use that power, it will be far too late for the SCOTUS to do anything about it. They literally made a bed that all of us, including them, have to lay in, and pray that it doesn't happen. That's NOT how a country of law and order/checks and balances operates. Kavanaugh should be forced to answer why his stance, that even a few years ago, he felt that a president wasn't above the law, even concerning matters of military and defense. What changed, Brett? Do we not deserve to know the answer to that? If he says lawfare, then he just admitted he has zero faith in the justice system, that he is at the top of.

We used to just ignore those people. Now the medias has amped them up, and we ended up with equally nutty people at the other end of the spectrum, who the media also amps up. It would be great if Biden went to play shuffleboard as he should, and someone else stepped in, and made their campaign, 'Return America to the center'.

The problem is there's no one above him to tell him what his official acts are. He is in charge of the military, and there's zero constraints on that. trump was going to fire AG's until he got one that disputed the election. Don't you think he can do that with military commanders until he gets one that follows the orders??? Absolutely no order he gives the military can be considered a crime. None. Zero. Zilch. Will trump go rogue? Maybe not, but somewhere down the line, if that ability exists, it will inevitably happen. A president can literally declare martial law, kill American citizens, adjourn Congress so they can't impeach him, and then go play golf when his term is up. That is our new reality. Unfortunately, we just took some of those checks away. I didn't trust the government before this, and now I trust it far less. The president can now use the military as an authoritarian, and we have to hope that he doesn't have loyalist generals. Imagine what General Steve Bannon would do if he wasn't constrained.

And the inverse is, if someone is Hitler, should everything be on the table, or rather in his case under the table, but not blocked by heaven wood legs? Oh yeah, no open windows either. Try to imagine a country where if Stauffenberg was president, he could legally bomb whoever he wanted. Right now our country couldn't possibly be any more upside down. What a mess.

Would you trade holding criminals accountable by trial by jury of their peers(a pretty well-known and supported American institution) for no chance in hell the criminal ever faces justice???