Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote a stinging dissent that was joined by the other liberal justices, warned that a future president could order US forces to kill a rival and get away with it.

“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,” Sotomayor wrote. “Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”

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    – and while he’s at it, maybe Biden could see that Alito and Thomas met with some unfortunate fatality… and if congress does not think he should be allowed to replace them, perhaps they, too, would suddenly find their numbers shrinking as the pile of bodies mounts (I’m looking at you, Mitch McConnell).

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      That’s the thing

      If he has total immunity, doesn’t it mean he can just sign into law to remove the dodgy Trump justices?

      The really sad part is that people on the fox news youtube are calling this a win for America.

      Their rights are being eroded, and they’re still brown nosing the guy.

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        Trump stole money from cancer kids. I don’t understand how anyone can miss the slime dripping of him. Yeah, I’m partisan about this.