Posted on 01/16/2025 2:11:47 AM PST by Libloather
resident Biden rejected the idea that commanders in chief are immune from prosecution for “official acts” during his final Oval Office speech on Wednesday, an apparent parting shot at President-elect Donald Trump.
”We need to amend the Constitution to make clear that no president, no president, is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office,” Biden said.
“The president’s power is not unlimited,” the 82-year-old outgoing commander in chief argued. “It’s not absolute, and it shouldn’t be.”
Last July, the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are afforded absolute immunity from prosecution for “official acts” undertaken as commander in chief.
The 6-3 ruling affirmed Trump’s contention that he was immune from prosecution on charges related to his alleged efforts to interfere in the certification of Biden’s 2020 election win.
Biden had previously slammed the conservative-majority ruling, warning that it “fundamentally changed” the concept that “no one is above the law” and “almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.”
Chief Justice John Roberts stressed that despite the ruling the “president is not above the law,” and that “not everything the president does is official.”
“Like everyone else, the President is subject to prosecution in his unofficial capacity. But unlike anyone else, the President is a branch of government, and the Constitution vests in him sweeping powers and duties,” Roberts wrote in his opinion.
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Yeah, we’ll get right on that, Joe. 🙄
How’s Hunter doing?
lol… okay, Brandon, if you insist
Biden has a clean conscience, he really can’t recall ever breaking a rule or much less committing a criminal act. he’s actually looking forward to being sworn in again on Jan 20th.
After all, the Democrats say he’s the best Gol darn president America ever had.
BTTT
He can’t recall much of anything at this point.
Donkey party must know that with this year’s pathetic national election season performance, and the last four years with Brandon’s anonymous handlers at the helm, hey’ve finally soiled the bed, jumped the shark, etc. (pick your favorite metaphor), forever excluding themselves from ever again running the federal executive branch.
Obama ordered a drone strike killing of an American citizen without trial. He could be charged with murder.
Truman killed how many women and children dropping two A bombs?
Now look at the kickbacks and 10% for yhe big guy payoffs Biden and family got for decades. I agree those actions should result in consequences.
But Trump won’t prosecute Biden as he know it is bad for our Republic to have one administration jail the previous.
Anyone doubt had Trump not won this election her have been imprisoned during a Kamala regime?
Let’s make it retroactive to Biden’s administration and send him to jail immediately for all the crimes he’s committed while in office.
Sloppy Joe he’ll be long dead before it’s ratified
Even the guy who said Joe most definitely had classified docs all over his various homes , said Biden was too senile to stand trial…. Maybe Joe should sit this one out.
Barack’s drones killed Americans overseas without due process. Let’s make sure this is retroactive.
Still sad he couldn’t get Trump. I’d like to see a ban on Presidential pardons.
Joe doesn’t remember that he got a pass on stealing classified documents and pardon guilty-as-sin Hunter.
Let’s Go Brandon! FJB. America’s first stolen election “president.”
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Says 10% man.
Trump should call for a constitutional amendment for semi annual cognitive test for president’s. That way they can’t sit in a corner drooling and pissing themselves without ramifications.
Says the most corrupt President ever.
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