But in their infinite wisdom, they decided former presidents and presidential candidates were a sacred cow and we cannot hold someone accountable for their crimes of they might become president, we must put them in a position to ruin everything

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    21·
    12 hours ago

    and the biden administration could’ve decided on a top-down instead of bottom-up approach to prioritizing prosecution. trump v. us meant that trump could no longer be prosecuted for diverting forces away from the capitol but did not end up mattering since the biden approach meant the trials for his capitol crimes were still in progress when he was elected anyways

    • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      38·
      12 hours ago

      As soon as the supreme court made that stupid ruling about presidential immunity, Biden could have cleaned house with inpunity.

      Look at where we are now.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        123·
        12 hours ago

        Assuming you’re referring to Dark Brandon SEAL Team 6-ing everybody and instilling the new Dominion Americana, that would’ve set a bad precedent. But then again he pardoned his son.

        • Lightor@lemmy.world
          4·
          7 hours ago

          And the current president violating the constitution isn’t? I’d say sending the military to cities you don’t like is setting a bad precedent.

        • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          19·
          12 hours ago

          But also a good opportunity to remove conservative supreme court justices.

          Put in sensible ones, then reverse the ruling of presidential immunity. Carry on with trying to rebuild whats left of this countries rule of law.

          • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
            51·
            10 hours ago

            Seriously. Go after the people who did crimes, make a big public push to impeach the dirty judges, and make sure to bring grocery prices down instead of pushing up wages. If he’d done that, maybe it would have partly worked, maybe it would have been tough, but I think pretty fantastic odds that however it shook out, Biden would be out there drooling his way through his second term right now, and Fox News would be screaming about what a problem it was every time he tripped going up the stairs, but there are lot of Florida detainees who would still be alive. Kilmar would still be happy with his family, right now.