Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by davidcbc on Sunday January 19, 2025 @07:34PM
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He's only accountable to Congress (SCOTUS also affirmed that) and good fucking luck ever getting the required votes to remove him from office. He can do whatever he wants with impunity.
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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by paulddraper on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:37PM
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> He's only accountable to Congress (SCOTUS also affirmed that)
No, SCOTUS ruled that the President is not subject to criminal prosecution.
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On many, many occasions, the courts have ruled executive actions invalid.
On no occasion, have courts assigned criminal liability to a President.
SCOTUS explicitly affirmed that as the rule.
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by davidcbc on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:53PM
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I'm sure the SCOTUS that said "your crimes are legal" will stand up to him now
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by roenxi on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:13PM
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SCOTUS pointed out that they weren't crimes committed by Trump. We then saw the political prosecutions of Trump backfire spectacularly in a way that strongly suggests that the balance of the US population agreed with the SCOTUS call that the prosecutors didn't have a case that Trump had to answer for.
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by paulddraper on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:30AM
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IDK.
My comment was just re "SCOTUS also affirmed that"