• Nougat
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    102 months ago

    … but not to get creative about something spelled out plainly in the Constitution.

    And yet, presidents now have extremely wide criminal immunity.

    • @Zak
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      12 months ago

      There’s nothing in the text of the Constitution that says they don’t.

      Like most sane people, I think that decision was overly broad and has dangerous implications. On the other hand, if Congress could make crimes about Article 2 powers, that would effectively allow Congress to take those powers for itself by statute, overruling the Constitution’s assignment of them to the president.