SCOTUS 2024
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Summary of cases and status.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/tracking-supreme-court-cases-rcna151268
SCOTUSblog for more in-depth coverage and commentary:
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The Supreme Court had decided that:
"Bump stock" is legal; the ATF exceeded its power when it banned the device.The decision (PDF): https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-976_e29g.pdf
Thomas wrote for the majority.
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Illinois politicians are rejoicing.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a federal anti-bribery law does not make it a crime for state and local officials to accept a gratuity for acts that they have already taken. Writing for a six-justice majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that state and local governments already regulate gifts to officials, and so the federal law “does not supplement those state and local rules by subjecting 19 million state and local officials to up to 10 years in federal prison for accepting even commonplace gratuities.”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-limits-scope-of-anti-bribery-law/
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Legalize bribery- what could go wrong? (Clarence Thomas...)
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf
The SCOTUS has essentially overturned “Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council.”
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So if Biden believes Trump is an imminent threat to democracy, does this mean he can send him to Guantanamo or have him killed with full immunity? I'm sure Trump is thinking that way...
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Or some supreme court justices are a threat to our national security and should be taken out? The list goes on...
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What can Team Biden do with the “presidential immunity” ruling?
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Will the “presidential immunity” ruling void the NY “hush money/falsification of business records” conviction?
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The possibilities are intriguing.
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I think not. The payoff was made when he wasn't president. Plus it was an offense at the state level.
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Is it immunity on all levels, or only for federal crimes?
The payoff was made while he was in office; the arrangements were made before, I think. Was signing those checks an official act?
And Biden’s taking the high road. Sometimes I wish Dems would play as dirty as the other side.
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Biden is old enough, he should send a few of the supremes and Trump to Guantanamo as enemies of the state. Then let the uproar work through the courts...
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@AdagioM said in SCOTUS 2024:
Is it immunity on all levels, or only for federal crimes?
The payoff was made while he was in office; the arrangements were made before, I think. Was signing those checks an official act?
Cohen got reimbursed in 2017, but I think the transfer of the money to Cohen's Essential Consultants LLC in October is part of the conspiracy, so that was pre-presidency.
