When Justice Samuel Alito, the most villainous political figure in my lifetime, asserted without any irony that prosecuting a president for refusing to relinquish power after losing an election might encourage future presidents to hold on even more firmly to their office, any remaining optimism I could muster about American democracy and its institutional ability to defend itself against tyranny drained away.
~ David Kurtz, TPM
@tgraph52 Okay, I get it - I think. So if a president refuses to leave and thus opens himself to prosecution - when he finally does go, the solution will be for him to never leave. Still a convoluted argument.
@johnldeboer @tgraph52 At this rate, I fully expect a written majority opinion which says "nobody is entitled to absolute immunity except anybody on the attached list of names". The list will comprise Trump and his family, the SCOTUS justices and the House GOP Insurrection Caucus.
I could envision a 2nd trump term that includes impeaching the 3 more liberal justices
@tgraph52 @johnldeboer They cannot do it unless they have a 2/3 majority in the Senate, or unless there is a coup.
That would be determined by what, if any, rules still exist.
@tgraph52 @johnldeboer Hence my comment about a coup. If there is a coup, the rules will be whatever the new despot decides they are.