• tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    I’m not a lawyer, but in my view the presidential immunity doesn’t mean the president can do anything he wants. It just means he can’t be personally prosecuted for his actions.

    So it didn’t give Biden the right to remove whoever he could: the legal process to impeach a Supreme Court judge would still hold. It just means that if he killed a political enemy, he couldn’t be prosecuted for murder.

    Still a shitty ruling though.

    • Zirconium@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      He could perhaps have the power to order people to be killed and Biden himself would have not faced prosecution