The left is determined to completely misunderstand this ruling. SCOTUS made no ruling that the president can do whatever he wants, call it an official act and it’s “okay.” They said that presidents are entitled to presumptive immunity from PROSECUTION for official acts. What constitutes an official act is a complex question, but is basically actions taken pursuant to their constitutional and statutory authority, not whatever whim they might have.
So no, Biden couldn’t legally arrest and put Trump in jail, he doesn’t have the Constitutional power for that. The government would need to bring actual charges and have a jury find Trump guilty in court, nothing the SCOTUS ruled changes any of this. The only thing this decision might change is if Biden did try to illegally arrest and jail opponents, could he himself be prosecuted for that? He could try to claim it was an official act, but that would be tough to convince a judge of, certainly no guarantee of immunity.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
