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Under this Court’s opinion, the only thing that will stop a president from abusing their power is their own sense of restraint and people in the executive branch who may not follow their orders,
Chris Edelson, an assistant professor of government at American University, told Al Jazeera For girls in Afghanistan this is impossible, they’re not allowed to study or even leave the house,
With fear for our democracy, I dissent,
the liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote Nearly all of these clients state the reason for selecting Scandinavia as being cooler than other European countries in summer,
said Laura Greenman, the managing director of Magnetic North Travel When Nixon warned that, ‘When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal,’ he went on to say, ‘How could staff operate if they didn’t have a president who was totally immune?’
This opinion, as the dissents warn and other voices are now being heard to say, opens a dangerous tear in the American constitutional fabric, in the checks and balances that have helped us to survive this country for two and a half centuries,
When dissenting justices warn that the majority may have just legalized murder by one individual in our country, that warning is to be taken very seriously,
It’s important to note this clarion call from these dissenting justices,
Presumptively, he has the power to assassinate a rival,
John Dean, who was White House counsel to former President Richard Nixon, told HuffPost on a call with the Defend Democracy Project, a group that advocates for free and fair elections I don’t think Joe Biden would ever do something like that.”
As to whether he thinks the court just gave Biden the OK to assassinate Trump, Seligman said Whether it’s actually not illegal anymore, or it is illegal but you just can’t be prosecuted for it, we used to live in a country where there was more respect for the law than contemplating realistic hypotheticals of the president assassinating his political opponents,
When the president does it,
Nixon told Frost, defending the conduct that ended his presidency, That analysis ultimately is best left to the lower courts to perform in the first instance,
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the president’s motives,
There’s no other official that can overrule the president in the command of the military. And so his giving the military an order would be absolutely immunised by this decision,
What’s different now is the court has now endorsed that, and we have a candidate for president who has made clear he will seek to rule as a dictator,
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,
The ruling is an assault on the constitutional limits to guard against abuses of power,
The long-term significance of this ruling should not be underestimated,
Finkelstein told Al Jazeera in a TV interview This fundamentally transforms the presidency,