I don’t believe the recent court ruling would actually allow that because suspending court justices isn’t a regular part of the president’s duty.
The best king example I’ve seen is that the president would be within the law if they shot the director of homeland security - the president is allowed to control who is in that position, they can remove them at will - the SC ruling means that the method they chose to remove that person is now unimpeachable… if they chose to suspend them by freeing them of their mortal coil they’re “acting within official duties”.
It might be illegal for the DOJ personnel to follow that order, but he can just tell them he’ll pardon them for any crimes they’re charged with for following his order and that he’ll murder them if they don’t follow his order, and all of that is totally legal
I don’t believe the recent court ruling would actually allow that because suspending court justices isn’t a regular part of the president’s duty.
The best king example I’ve seen is that the president would be within the law if they shot the director of homeland security - the president is allowed to control who is in that position, they can remove them at will - the SC ruling means that the method they chose to remove that person is now unimpeachable… if they chose to suspend them by freeing them of their mortal coil they’re “acting within official duties”.
Directing the DOJ is
So Biden can direct them to arrest someone, and throw them in gitmo.
His motivations can’t be investigated. And directing the DOJ is within a presidents power
It might be illegal for the DOJ personnel to follow that order, but he can just tell them he’ll pardon them for any crimes they’re charged with for following his order and that he’ll murder them if they don’t follow his order, and all of that is totally legal
But we’ll never know, because looking into his motivations is literally forbidden.
All he can be tried for is the action in a vacuum. And if it was explicitly within his powers. He’s good
Literally anything that goes thru an agency is automatically cool.
That’s why it’s so dangerous to half ass this election and for Biden to just ignore all the power he has.
The president can pardon people for unspecified things (proven by Trump). He can pardon anyone for “following orders”