They forgot we already had a president who dispatched two American citizens via drone and wasn’t held responsible because as we know those citizens were terrorists, but they were never given their due process rights as citizens.
Sotomayor completely nails it, not that I would expect the conservative idiots on the board to understand.
The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
… Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
They forgot we already had a president who dispatched two American citizens via drone and wasn’t held responsible because as we know those citizens were terrorists, but they were never given their due process rights as citizens.
MezCan.
Sotomayor completely nails it, not that I would expect the conservative idiots on the board to understand.
The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
… Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.