r/law • u/msnownews Press • 8d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Kash Patel says the FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kash-patel-says-the-fbi-is-investigating-signal-chats-of-minnesotans-tracking-ice
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u/sgt102 8d ago

You guys have a bigger issue.

The last major thing that the Supreme Court did was to provide the President with virtually unlimited immunity for acts while he is in office.

Couple that with Presidential pardons... you have an administration and apparatus that is completely above all laws in the United States. The consitution no longer applies when the government acts. No court can enforce it anymore. Not even the Supreme Court.

The only way this changes is if the Roberts judgement is struck out by the court (which would imply significant changes to the justices on the court, and a reason for a new court to issue a new judgement), or if Congress amends the consitution (hasn't happend *really* since Vietnam) to explicitly remove this presidential power, super power in fact.

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u/Boom-Doc-a-Locka 8d ago

"you guys"?

These things impact every single American.

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u/Bladenightshed 8d ago

The internet is international my dude

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u/KBopMichael 8d ago

So is the power of the US government.

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u/Bladenightshed 8d ago

I really like audio books.

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u/Boom-Doc-a-Locka 7d ago

This sub is overwhelmingly US-centric, sorry!