I hope he pardons his son. Clearly, his case would never have been brought to trial if he weren’t Joe Biden’s son; the plea agreement was appropriate, according to legal experts.
I’d also really like it if he pardoned Reality Winner. She disclosed one document which was overclassified – it contained information that was already common knowledge. She served time that was far in excess of her offense, and she should get a clean slate.
disasterbot on
Arrest SCOTUS. See how they like that immunity.
Uasked2 on
Biden could do all those things without needing any immunity.
Truthisnotallowed on
Biden is well aware – the SCOTUS ‘full immunity’ ruling only applies to Donald Trump.
If Trump gets in and prosecutes Biden, the SCOTUS will rule that nothing Biden did were ‘actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority’ and therefore do not provide any immunity to Biden.
On the other hand, if Harris wins, SCOTUS may well decide to find that everything Trump did were ‘actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority’ and therefore do provide Trump with ‘Full Immunity’.
StormOk7544 on
Was he joking?
wdr1977 on
No matter the outcome of the election, Biden should resign the day after. If she wins, Harris can get to work right away. If she loses, she still gets to be president. It will drive everyone absolutely bonkers.
Own-Opinion-7228 on
biden should executively order the dissolution of the supreme court. let the next president stsrt ovet
Scutwork on
I feel like every movie and tv show and book and myth I’ve ever been exposed to has told me that you can’t use the powers of evil and expect things to turn out good…
Richfor3 on
He should but he won’t. Then when Republicans do use it, they’ll all be “Gee Golly. Guess we should have acted when we had a shot. Oh well.”
No_Fail4267 on
Please do.. 🙏
kanst on
In my fantasies on the way out the door Biden would just legalize all the people awaiting their immigration hearings.
Get the wait list back to zero and maybe we can fix the actual issue
metal0060 on
Sell Texas to Mexico!
Icuricub on
> Moore’s “Bucket List for Scranton Joe” included 13 line items such as officially declaring the Equal Rights Amendment as “the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution,” eliminating student and medical debt, banning spam text messaging, granting clemency for non-violent drug offenders, and pardoning Edward Snowden.
king_of_the_nothing on
Hmmm, declare the six justices that gave him immunity to be a threat to US security and drop a drone on each of their houses.
captsmokeywork on
Seal team six if you are listening
captsmokeywork on
Seal team six if you are listening a
ChowMeinWayne on
Dark Brandon indeed.
makashiII_93 on
He won’t.
And honestly that’s part of the problem.
jacobwebb57 on
use it. abuse it. then eliminate it. si it can never be abused again
Reasonable-Sweet9320 on
Pardon Edward Snowden? !!
I don’t think so.
Edward Snowden deserves a trial.
I can’t see President Biden ignoring what the intel committee and intel staff have advised to successive presidents over the years.
“Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden” prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (the “HPSCI Report”), ……..
HPSCI Report itself was signed by all 22 members, Democrat and Republican. As that bipartisan HPSCI Report observed, Snowden “caused tremendous damage to national security, and the vast majority of the documents he stole ha[d] nothing to do with programs impacting individual privacy interests—they instead pertain[ed] to military, defense, and intelligence programs of great interest to America’s adversaries.” Indeed, the intelligence programs that Snowden compromised represent the single biggest blow to U.S. communications intelligence activities since John Walker supplied the Soviet Union with stolen codes for nearly 20 years before being caught in the mid-1980s.“
Despite the message conveyed in his well produced documentary , he omits key details about his illegal breach of critical national security information including the impact it had.
Fred_Buck on
If I were him. I would have stationed seal time six in front of every supreme Court justices house during their entire deliberation of the immunity case.
CaptainNoBoat on
Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine and this is going to be a long rant, but:
The immunity ruling has been widely (but understandably) misinterpreted. It does have dangerous, king-like repercussions, but for different reasons and not where peoples’ imaginations are taking them.
There’s this popular sentiment that the ruling made Presidents suddenly all-powerful and capable of anything, but that’s not really the takeaway. The theories seemed tongue-in-cheek at first, but I’m seeing far too often these serious, false expectations of what Biden (and hopefully Harris) can do because of it.
**The ruling does not expand Presidential power.** Many are hung on up on the whole “official act” terminology, but it’s important to note that the ruling gave determination of “official acts” to *the courts*. NOT the President. The ruling doesn’t establish that Presidents can simply say “I declare my own actions official!” like he’s Michael Scott and do whatever they want.
Summing up the ruling as much as possible, it basically says:
– Core constitutional powers are absolutely immune (so things specifically spelled out in the Constitution – pardon power, war powers, veto, etc.). And dealings with the DOJ are immune.
– Private acts that have no bearing on the office or its duties are not protected.
– Everything else (the whole “what is an official act or not?” question) is up for review by the courts. SCOTUS literally designed the ruling so that anything remotely contentious would boomerang back to them to decide.
**It is much more about corrupt incentive, not outright power.** (Although there’s some overlap).
What the ruling DOES do is grant (potential) personal protection from criminal liability, and so it’s much more beneficial to someone who is, well.. a criminal. Think about Trump here: He won a year+ of delays from the January 6th case and potentially others. It incentivizes him to seek the office again for further legal protection. It incentivizes him to offer pardons to those willing to commit crimes on his behalf. He could theoretically commit crimes himself like bribery. He could order the DOJ or Seal Team 6 to commit crimes and have a much greater chance of escaping personal legal accountability at a future date.
That is why the ruling is dangerous – it encourages someone who might abuse the office and commit crimes to do so, because they might have more protection – and that begins a much broader, frightening road we could go down. But it doesn’t inherently grant someone like Biden power to DO anything more effectively in the first place. It still requires willing criminal participants and navigating the courts to succeed.
People might say “well, Biden could order Merrick Garland to arrest the Supreme Court or Congress,” etc, but that brings me to the last point: he could have tried that anyway with the same success rate before July 1st, 2024:
**Sitting Presidents already enjoy theoretical immunity from criminal liability, regardless of the ruling.** Or it would at least require a monumental effort to prosecute a sitting President. It can be argued the ruling’s legal ramifications are only relevant to former Presidents, because they must be out of office to face prosecution in the first place. (This is why it’s so important Trump doesn’t become President again. The Oval Office is an insane legal shield and always has been)
I know it sounds absurd with our whole “no one is above the law” notion, and I personally disagree with it. But the President is the head of the DOJ and the Executive Branch, they can fire the AG. There is standing DOJ/OLC policy based on constitutional arguments that a sitting President cannot be prosecuted at the state or federal level. And the Supreme Court has backed this notion in multiple rulings, basically saying a President’s constitutional duties cannot be impeded by legal proceedings, and that they would need to be impeached/removed from office. At the very least, if a President didn’t want to be prosecuted, they could put up quite a fight to avoid it.
Anyway, the point is that the power so many think Biden “gained” from the ruling (immunity while in office), he already had.
**TL;DR** – the immunity ruling is very dangerous in many ways and can lead to dangerous consequences, but it doesn’t suddenly grant the office of the Presidency any inherent new power it didn’t have before. These popular notions that Biden or Harris can suddenly do anything they want are misguided and unhelpful IMO.
Tantalise on
My fever dream tells me that if Trump ‘wins,’ sometime in the week before Jan 20th, Biden can make sure that, Jeffries gets sworn in as POTUS … provided we take the house!
If he feels the need to, he can step down and have Kamala pardon him!
favnh2011 on
That’s great
kneeco28 on
Well, that’s stupid.
welestgw on
Who even cares about what Michael Moore thinks anymore?
Crispy_Marv on
Damn good idea
PurgatoryMountain on
He really should go after scotus and musk
Crispy_Marv on
Political prisoners in Israeli prisons? I wonder if that includes the convicted terrorists as well? You can call a Palestinian in a Israeli jail a political prisoner because it helps your argument or because it’s a technicality, but that doesn’t change the fact of whether they murdered or raped or shot or stabbed someone and were sent to prison for it.
I liked where this was going at first but I should have known better coming from this fat hippie.
Don’t worry president biden, the Israeli Palestinian conflict did not start under your watch and it will have zero impact on your legacy. Fuck Michael Moore for implying that it will and fuck Michael Moore for thinking any president can just scribble a pen and magically force foreign sovereign countries to do whatever he says.
As I’m writing this I increasingly see just how utter stupid this fucking article and Michael Moore is. Have another cheeseburger Michael. What a fat fucking loser idiot.
Oh and most Americans do not want hamas to survive this war. Nor do we want you to talk anymore.
Black-Zero on
The SCOTUS WILL find a way to rule his action where not an official duty and open the door for his arrest. This was made for Trump by his SCOTUS and they will make sure it only applies to him.
aboyeur514 on
What if he forgave all those who trusted their president and ended up in Jail – good start to healing maybe sorry (I’m Canadian)
WrongTurn1998 on
He’s already used it on the Postmaster General. Check and check-mate.
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I hope he pardons his son. Clearly, his case would never have been brought to trial if he weren’t Joe Biden’s son; the plea agreement was appropriate, according to legal experts.
I’d also really like it if he pardoned Reality Winner. She disclosed one document which was overclassified – it contained information that was already common knowledge. She served time that was far in excess of her offense, and she should get a clean slate.
Arrest SCOTUS. See how they like that immunity.
Biden could do all those things without needing any immunity.
Biden is well aware – the SCOTUS ‘full immunity’ ruling only applies to Donald Trump.
If Trump gets in and prosecutes Biden, the SCOTUS will rule that nothing Biden did were ‘actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority’ and therefore do not provide any immunity to Biden.
On the other hand, if Harris wins, SCOTUS may well decide to find that everything Trump did were ‘actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority’ and therefore do provide Trump with ‘Full Immunity’.
Was he joking?
No matter the outcome of the election, Biden should resign the day after. If she wins, Harris can get to work right away. If she loses, she still gets to be president. It will drive everyone absolutely bonkers.
biden should executively order the dissolution of the supreme court. let the next president stsrt ovet
I feel like every movie and tv show and book and myth I’ve ever been exposed to has told me that you can’t use the powers of evil and expect things to turn out good…
He should but he won’t. Then when Republicans do use it, they’ll all be “Gee Golly. Guess we should have acted when we had a shot. Oh well.”
Please do.. 🙏
In my fantasies on the way out the door Biden would just legalize all the people awaiting their immigration hearings.
Get the wait list back to zero and maybe we can fix the actual issue
Sell Texas to Mexico!
> Moore’s “Bucket List for Scranton Joe” included 13 line items such as officially declaring the Equal Rights Amendment as “the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution,” eliminating student and medical debt, banning spam text messaging, granting clemency for non-violent drug offenders, and pardoning Edward Snowden.
Hmmm, declare the six justices that gave him immunity to be a threat to US security and drop a drone on each of their houses.
Seal team six if you are listening
Seal team six if you are listening a
Dark Brandon indeed.
He won’t.
And honestly that’s part of the problem.
use it. abuse it. then eliminate it. si it can never be abused again
Pardon Edward Snowden? !!
I don’t think so.
Edward Snowden deserves a trial.
I can’t see President Biden ignoring what the intel committee and intel staff have advised to successive presidents over the years.
https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/08/edward-snowden-deserves-a-trial-not-a-pardon/
“Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden” prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (the “HPSCI Report”), ……..
HPSCI Report itself was signed by all 22 members, Democrat and Republican. As that bipartisan HPSCI Report observed, Snowden “caused tremendous damage to national security, and the vast majority of the documents he stole ha[d] nothing to do with programs impacting individual privacy interests—they instead pertain[ed] to military, defense, and intelligence programs of great interest to America’s adversaries.” Indeed, the intelligence programs that Snowden compromised represent the single biggest blow to U.S. communications intelligence activities since John Walker supplied the Soviet Union with stolen codes for nearly 20 years before being caught in the mid-1980s.“
Despite the message conveyed in his well produced documentary , he omits key details about his illegal breach of critical national security information including the impact it had.
If I were him. I would have stationed seal time six in front of every supreme Court justices house during their entire deliberation of the immunity case.
Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine and this is going to be a long rant, but:
The immunity ruling has been widely (but understandably) misinterpreted. It does have dangerous, king-like repercussions, but for different reasons and not where peoples’ imaginations are taking them.
There’s this popular sentiment that the ruling made Presidents suddenly all-powerful and capable of anything, but that’s not really the takeaway. The theories seemed tongue-in-cheek at first, but I’m seeing far too often these serious, false expectations of what Biden (and hopefully Harris) can do because of it.
**The ruling does not expand Presidential power.** Many are hung on up on the whole “official act” terminology, but it’s important to note that the ruling gave determination of “official acts” to *the courts*. NOT the President. The ruling doesn’t establish that Presidents can simply say “I declare my own actions official!” like he’s Michael Scott and do whatever they want.
Summing up the ruling as much as possible, it basically says:
– Core constitutional powers are absolutely immune (so things specifically spelled out in the Constitution – pardon power, war powers, veto, etc.). And dealings with the DOJ are immune.
– Private acts that have no bearing on the office or its duties are not protected.
– Everything else (the whole “what is an official act or not?” question) is up for review by the courts. SCOTUS literally designed the ruling so that anything remotely contentious would boomerang back to them to decide.
**It is much more about corrupt incentive, not outright power.** (Although there’s some overlap).
What the ruling DOES do is grant (potential) personal protection from criminal liability, and so it’s much more beneficial to someone who is, well.. a criminal. Think about Trump here: He won a year+ of delays from the January 6th case and potentially others. It incentivizes him to seek the office again for further legal protection. It incentivizes him to offer pardons to those willing to commit crimes on his behalf. He could theoretically commit crimes himself like bribery. He could order the DOJ or Seal Team 6 to commit crimes and have a much greater chance of escaping personal legal accountability at a future date.
That is why the ruling is dangerous – it encourages someone who might abuse the office and commit crimes to do so, because they might have more protection – and that begins a much broader, frightening road we could go down. But it doesn’t inherently grant someone like Biden power to DO anything more effectively in the first place. It still requires willing criminal participants and navigating the courts to succeed.
People might say “well, Biden could order Merrick Garland to arrest the Supreme Court or Congress,” etc, but that brings me to the last point: he could have tried that anyway with the same success rate before July 1st, 2024:
**Sitting Presidents already enjoy theoretical immunity from criminal liability, regardless of the ruling.** Or it would at least require a monumental effort to prosecute a sitting President. It can be argued the ruling’s legal ramifications are only relevant to former Presidents, because they must be out of office to face prosecution in the first place. (This is why it’s so important Trump doesn’t become President again. The Oval Office is an insane legal shield and always has been)
I know it sounds absurd with our whole “no one is above the law” notion, and I personally disagree with it. But the President is the head of the DOJ and the Executive Branch, they can fire the AG. There is standing DOJ/OLC policy based on constitutional arguments that a sitting President cannot be prosecuted at the state or federal level. And the Supreme Court has backed this notion in multiple rulings, basically saying a President’s constitutional duties cannot be impeded by legal proceedings, and that they would need to be impeached/removed from office. At the very least, if a President didn’t want to be prosecuted, they could put up quite a fight to avoid it.
Anyway, the point is that the power so many think Biden “gained” from the ruling (immunity while in office), he already had.
**TL;DR** – the immunity ruling is very dangerous in many ways and can lead to dangerous consequences, but it doesn’t suddenly grant the office of the Presidency any inherent new power it didn’t have before. These popular notions that Biden or Harris can suddenly do anything they want are misguided and unhelpful IMO.
My fever dream tells me that if Trump ‘wins,’ sometime in the week before Jan 20th, Biden can make sure that, Jeffries gets sworn in as POTUS … provided we take the house!
If he feels the need to, he can step down and have Kamala pardon him!
That’s great
Well, that’s stupid.
Who even cares about what Michael Moore thinks anymore?
Damn good idea
He really should go after scotus and musk
Political prisoners in Israeli prisons? I wonder if that includes the convicted terrorists as well? You can call a Palestinian in a Israeli jail a political prisoner because it helps your argument or because it’s a technicality, but that doesn’t change the fact of whether they murdered or raped or shot or stabbed someone and were sent to prison for it.
I liked where this was going at first but I should have known better coming from this fat hippie.
Don’t worry president biden, the Israeli Palestinian conflict did not start under your watch and it will have zero impact on your legacy. Fuck Michael Moore for implying that it will and fuck Michael Moore for thinking any president can just scribble a pen and magically force foreign sovereign countries to do whatever he says.
As I’m writing this I increasingly see just how utter stupid this fucking article and Michael Moore is. Have another cheeseburger Michael. What a fat fucking loser idiot.
Oh and most Americans do not want hamas to survive this war. Nor do we want you to talk anymore.
The SCOTUS WILL find a way to rule his action where not an official duty and open the door for his arrest. This was made for Trump by his SCOTUS and they will make sure it only applies to him.
What if he forgave all those who trusted their president and ended up in Jail – good start to healing maybe sorry (I’m Canadian)
He’s already used it on the Postmaster General. Check and check-mate.