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The essence, from the majority opinion

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

> nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority.

> And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.

> Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial

> The Constitution does not tolerate such impediments to “the effective functioning of government” [as when] the possibility of an extended proceeding alone may render [the President] “unduly cautious in the discharge of his official duties.”

> The immunity the Court has recognized therefore extends to the “outer perimeter” of the President’s official responsibilities, covering actions so long as they are “not manifestly or palpably beyond [his] authority.”

> In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.

> Nor may courts deem an action unofficial merely because it allegedly violates a generally applicable law

> Enduring separation of powers principles guide our decision in this case

Supreme Court history has no broader grant of immunity based on principles less definitive.
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This is a terrible take. The Supreme Court case severely limits even the use of evidence to prosecute a President. The majority ruling says that as long as something is done in "official" capacity the intentions don't matter.

EDIT: This ruling probably retroactively clears Nixon from Watergate. It would make it illegal to use the tapes as evidence against him.
The wording is definitely not clear enough in that section, however I don't think this is the intended reading (and I'm hoping we get clarification on this) -- the pardon would be an official act, but according to footnote 3 the sale of the pardon and discussions about that would not be included in the bar on evidence of the official act, because they're not considered part of that official act. It seems (with the footnotes considered) to be a very narrow interpretation of "official act," which does seem to contradict the plain reading. Very annoying.
There are some already drawing up list of those employees for targeting during a potential second Trump term, using a grant from the Heritage Foundation, IIRC.
I think that's rather her point. We are already doomed.

Think about how the Executive handled rival political movements in the past. The Black Panthers. CPUSA circa 1919. Now imagine Fred Hampton had been running for President when he was killed.

The line between "political opponent" and "enemy of the State" can become pretty blurry. This ruling gives the Executive broad power to act in its own interests when it can claim the line is blurry.
We ask every soldier to put their life on the line. But do we dare ask our President to subject himself to our laws?

I mean, if Obama went to prison for the drone strikes he ordered, his sacrifice would be less than many common soldiers have made.

I want Presidents willing to put their lives on the line and their actions under the law. Is that too much to ask?
High worker wages and cheap goods are incompatible. The companies can’t do anything especially since places with cheap labor can now put out mid to high quality tier goods themselves. For a while it seemed like Germany et al were able to maintain a moat with their high quality goods but Asia has caught up. The only hope for American manufacturing is fully automated facilities but that isn’t happening quickly enough. Alternatively we would have to have some sort of communist like top down profit sharing/UBI but I don’t see the US going down that path either.
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I think the lack of understanding was why somebody who spent tens of thousands on what basically amounts to a kickstarter campaign for a new car is surprised when the new company folds and leaves their customers in a lurch.

This probably wouldn't be as big of a deal in decades past. Worst case, you just had to learn how to do car maintance yourself, or take your car to an expensive mechanic that worked on oddities. But now? When almost everything is software controlled, and the company that controls that software disappears and takes their keys with them? You're screwed.
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Because they were all done sequentially, not concurrently.
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Several of those are absolutely corrupt at this point and bought off by the corporatocracy that now rules the country.
The Constitution forbade the US even to have a standing army. A standing navy was instituted, however.
Can you give an example of a time when a "legitimate military target" needed to be killed so immediately that a unilateral presidential decision that also killed nearby citizens was warranted? My presumption is that there are very few circumstances where the threat of a military target is so immediate that killing nearby innocent civilians is justified over waiting to try to find a better time to attack the target. If anything, immediate threats that require action are generally threats to the nearby innocent civilians themselves, which would make such decisive action not particularly useful; I don't think anyone would suggest something like blowing up a bank where people are being held hostage, which seems like the closest hypothetical I can think of.
More specifically, I have a log file that says I'm thinking, therefore I am. :-P

I think Descartes, if he were alive today would accept that slight adjustment. Descartes would of course then go on to rewrite Meditations II (which immediately follows "I think therefore I am") to argue that there might be an evil daemon that writes log files so that they give the illusion that I'm thinking. But if evil daemons are able to forge log files then all knowledge is impossible, so we're doomed no matter what. So best to pretend that isn't a possibility.

It always irritates me a bit that people like to throw "I think therefore I am" around as if Descartes himself didn't immediately refuted in Meditations II.
E.v.e.r.y.o.n.e should just go read the decision and dissents. It’s not that long or hard to follow. Then probably go read all of the Federalist Papers, if they haven’t already, or one of the Constitutional Debate readers that are readily available and may include much of Federalist.

The primary source here is plenty accessible, and free. And alarming.
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It seems like perhaps that power has been considerably weakened if the President is literally allowed to assassinate political rivals (as is mentioned in the dissent). You might vote not to impeach in fear, similar to jury intimidation. Hell, why even wait, what’s to prevent a President from going for it before the vote even happens? I find it hard to believe that this was meant to be a component of the impeachment process by the founders. To make it more exciting, I guess?
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Once they are impeached they would presumably be subject to criminal prosecution under the Impeachment Judgements Clause [1] which states:

"but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law."

I don't think this ruling is, on the surface, exactly what people are making it out to be. It certainly maintains a high bar for criminally prosecuting the president for something they do in office, but it is not allowing them to commit crimes with impunity.

1: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-3....
I understand why during their presidency the president needs to be immune (so that they can focus on their executive duties instead of spending their day in the court).

But AFTER the end of their (last) term why not be held accountable for their actions?
What does "Enemies, foreign and domestic" mean, really?
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if he's immune for "official actions" even after office impeachment after office must be possible as well
There is no point of a discussion if you dismiss everything I present without countering it with your sources.

You haven’t offered one single citation of any feather..never mind wing. Except your ‘belief’ which doesn’t have much worth except to you.

Your beliefs have nothing to do with facts.

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FACT: India is not run by a ‘Hindu nationalist government’.

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> All they'll need to do is find or make an angle...

that's not anything new though, Obama's drone strikes weren't ordered until his lawyers felt they had a very good defense for him in case he was charged with assassinating US citizens without due process.
While a president has total immunity for exercising “core constitutional powers,” a sitting or former president also has “presumptive immunity” for all official acts. That immunity, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion, “extends to the outer perimeter of the President’s official responsibilities, covering actions so long as they are not manifestly or palpably beyond his authority.”
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What the modern world thinks of as Los Angeles has always been terrible, treeless land. You have to go inland, and up the mountains, to get to the good land.

From the ~1830s:

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> Leaving Santa Barbara, we coasted along down, the country appearing level or moderately uneven, and, for the most part, sandy and treeless; until, doubling a high sandy point, we let go our anchor at a distance of three or three and a half miles from shore. It was like a vessel bound to St. John's, Newfoundland, coming to anchor on the Grand Banks; for the shore, being low, appeared to be at a greater distance than it actually was, and we thought we might as well have stayed at Santa Barbara, and sent our boat down for the hides. The land was of a clayey quality, and, as far as the eye could reach, entirely bare of trees and even shrubs; and there was no sign of a town,— not even a house to be seen. What brought us into such a place, we could not conceive.

> Leaving the boat, and picking our way barefooted over these, we came to what is called the landing-place, at high-water mark. The soil was, at it appeared at first, loose and clayey, and, except the stalks of the mustard plant, there was no vegetation. Just in front of the landing, and immediately over it, was a small hill, which, from its being not more than thirty or forty feet high, we had not perceived from our anchorage.

> I also learned, to my surprise, that the desolate-looking place we were in furnished more hides than any port on the coast. It was the only port for a distance of eighty miles, and about thirty miles in the interior was a fine plane country, filled with herds of cattle, in the centre of which was the Pueblo de los Angeles,— the largest town in California,— and several of the wealthiest missions; to all of which San Pedro was the seaport.
I was so tempted to get one. I really liked the design and the idea of this SUV. But the price was ever so slightly out of my budget for the Ocean Ultra that I was waiting for factory incentives and lease deals to hit. What I didn't expect was for the bottom to fall out for the whole company. I know there are teething problems for any new startup. But it was bad news after bad news with Fisker. I'm glad I didn't go through with it.
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> cheap goods

john deere isn't known for being cheap
Barrett's partial concurrence is nice and all but it's just that. Even where she did not join the majority it carried five votes.

It's telling that even such a minor "to be sure" as hers couldn't carry enough support to actually be in the opinion.
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Perhaps the simple solution is that all presidents should serve 15 years in jail after serving their term.

Then only extremely socially minded people would dare to do the job.

There was a similar sci fi story I read. At the end of a war the rule was that all allied ( not enemy ) generals would be executed. The idea was that war was such a horrible concept that to lead one would require extreme sacrifice and social consciousness on the part of the leaders. War was legal and to be fought without limit however on conclusion all leaders would be put to death. I don't remember the author or the story name.
What’s exactly said and what are the practical impacts are two completely different things.

It will take many, many cases to elaborate on what defines an official act and what exactly decides immunity, and in the process we could see a lot of potential what-I’d-say is overreach.

It is far too early to declare that there will be zero side effects from this — as with literally any Supreme Court ruling.

We’ve already seen what qualified immunity gets us, and I’d bet many people didn’t expect it to go that way.
On the other hand, if Trump marches on Washington at the head of an army surely Biden can take him out with an airstrike. Extreme scenarios often lead to bad law.
Praveen Mohan is a YouTube influencer. He is hardly an authority on anything except bad takes.
A lot of people don't think about things like this before buying a car. Every car will end up worthless, it's just a question of how long it will take. If the buyer only tends to keep their car for a few years anyway, the risk of a new brand not being around anymore probably seems low.
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Now that this has been cleared up by the courts, I want to ask.

Is it even possible for the President to break the law? What would that look like?
What do you mean, “unintentionally”? Obama deliberately and knowingly ordered an extrajudicial killing of a US citizen.
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I would go for something like “orientation”. Or “rotation”. Ordinary English words that represent what are, more or less, ordinary, familiar concepts.

The fact that it’s a “quaternion” or a “rotor” is kind of an implementation detail.

Of these four terms, Quaternion is the most precisely correct. The reason is that rotors are, by definition, constrained. Quaternions can take any value. Due to floating-point precision problems, your rotor will not always be exactly a rotor, but may some multivector which is not a rotor.

This is kind of like representing a point on a sphere using (x,y,z) coordinates. You can call it PointOnSphere or Vector. I would rather call it Vector, because PointOnSphere implies a constraint which won’t be exactly satisfied, and I want to be reminded of that fact. The type name (Vector here, and Quaternion above) represents the object’s structure and the constraints which are actually enforced by the underlying representation.
More specifically, blockchains are designed to avoid double-spending in a low-trust environment. If you're not trying to avoid double-spending, OR you're not in a low-trust environment, you probably dont need a blockchain.

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kitty is a product of a single open-source project, Sixel is a product of DEC with multiple independent implementations. DEC is out of business and there's very little risk of anyone coming out with a new version of VT333/VT340 reference manual, so Windows Terminal/conhost can have its own implementation of Sixel and ensure interoperability with other implementations as it sees fit, as opposed to committing to either chase compatibility with the Kitty project or committing to shipping someone else's code in perpetuity.
> The only hope for American manufacturing is fully automated facilities but that isn’t happening quickly enough

It's happening, but unions like the UAW oppose it [0][1].

There's a reason most battery factories have shifted to Red States like Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana [2] at the expense of previously established Michigan and Ohio.

> Germany et al were able to maintain a moat with their high quality goods but Asia has caught up

Due to lack of innovation.

[0] - https://www.axios.com/2023/09/15/uaw-worker-strike-electric-...

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/business/electric-vehicle...

[2] - https://www.edf.org/media/analysis-finds-us-electric-vehicle...