Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

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[–] 230 points 6 months ago (10 children)

So just to be clear. The EPA cannot make regulations despite full congressional authority to do so because that is "creating law" without a direct legislative process. But ICE, an agency that doesn't even have real law enforcement powers, can just ignore the fourth amendment entirely because the president said so?

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    Which by DEFINITION, would not include Un-Constitutional behavior. No violation of the Constitution could ever be construed as an "Official Act."

    No SCOTUS had ever put guardrails on the president in almost 250 years, but this SCOTUS reinforced that he has immunity for "Official Acts," and nobody realizes that they just put guardrails on the presidency for the first time.

    Everybody thinks it gives him immunity for EVERYTHING while he is president, but they specifically said "Official Acts," which would be those outlined in the Constitution. Anything deemed Un-Constitutional, would not be an "Official Act," and he would not have immunity, just like any other citizen.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Guardrails? I think you should re-read their decision again. They gave him protection because until now even official acts didn't necessarily protect the president. And now, it doesn't matter what illegal thing he does as long as it's part of an official act. ANYTHING. Because as long as it's part of an official act they can't even question it. And they didn't even provide a list of what constitutes an official act.

    So they literally put the president above all laws provided he can tie it back to some vague notion of an official act.

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    [–] 142 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What exactly is the point of a judicial warrant if the executive branch can determine when they're unnecessary?

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  • [–] 71 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    And just as we always suspected, all those "2nd Amendment Absolutists" are doing sweet fuck all.

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    [–] 64 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Time for y'all to get guns then

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    They are drooling at the opportunity to make their own version of Horst Wessel out of an ICE officer.

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  • [–] 64 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah I don't think the kirk fountain worked out as well as they'd hoped when they tried to capitalize on it.

    That said, I don't think the escalation will stop anyway, so self defense is worth it.

    For anyone who will be purchasing a firearm, please, please go to a range. Practice with it. Be familiar with how it works, maintenance, and basic repairs, and store it responsibly.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yup, the most likely people to get shot with a gun are the owner and the owner's family. Gotta know what the hell you're doing.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    100%.

    I've handled a gun from a fairly young age, taught by my grandfather, a ww2 vet. Over the years I've shot skeet, some shooting competitions for fun, etc.

    The most dangerous people I've ever seen at any of those places/events were the kind of people who loved buying lots and lots of guns, especially the 2A nuts who claim its all about protecting from the tyranny of the federal government. IMO, they just wanted to feel powerful - and as a result, they were negligent and dangerous. I know one of them who shot themselves in the leg pretty recently, because they ignored the most basic rule - treat every gun as if its always loaded. Guess what? That one was! And now he has a hole in his leg.

    Sorry for getting into a rant there.

    Guns are horrifically dangerous and should always be treated as such.

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    [–] 42 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Oh this is gonna be fun when it runs up against castle doctrine

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  • [–] 56 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Not really. Remember Wilhoit's Law:

    “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

    When they do it, its castle doctrine and qualified immunity and civil rights. When anyone else does it its terrorism. Your comment makes me think you haven't fully digested the situation and still think the US is a nation of laws. If so, you are gravely mistaken.

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    "ICE says its officers can forcibly enter homes . . . "

    I've got a gun that says they can't.

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    [–] 39 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Does their little memo offer protection against bullets?

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  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

    What these dumbasses (the ICE officers) aren't realizing is that this fascist administration wants these "agents" to get killed for stepping into the wrong house so they can use it as further justification for excessive force. Every ICE agent with boots on the ground is just a sacrificial lamb for their (the fascist regime's) racist agenda.

    Edit: Added clarifications in parentheses.

    Also, believe it or not, not every American owns a gun. The majority of those that do, own rifles intended for hunting or small handguns. Not weapons intended for military conflict. My SKS might deter a burglar, but it's just going to encourage a cadre of ICE agents to come in shooting.

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    [–] 36 points 6 months ago

    Americans, time to exercise your second amendment is nigh.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Funny, I also said things that were untrue but convenient to me. I was 6 at the time, but still

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago

    feel like the US had an amendment for this

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Can't wait for dems to retake power eventually and do absolutely nothing to prosecute these criminals. 'We have to promote unity to heal the divide.'

    If the dems were worth a damn they would be loudly shouting from the rooftops 'when we control the levers of power you will be held accountable for violating the constitution'

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    [–] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Cool. Guess what the 2nd Amendment says?

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    [–] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

    Obviously. That is the whole point of the Supreme Court. The surprising thing is that there wasn't more public concern when Trump selected his sycophant judges.

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    [–] 21 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    As a European I am baffled the civil war has not even started yet.

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    [–] 21 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    The Nazis ruled Germany for 12 years. The Gestapo believed that they were untouchable. In the end, the leader was dead by suicide, the senior officers tried and executed, the junior officers hunted, tried, convicted, and executed, imprisoned or murdered, and those who weren't caught were hunted and on the run for the rest of their lives until they were dead.

    I'm just saying.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    and those who weren’t caught were hunted and on the run for the rest of their lives until they were dead.

    this is actually untrue in some cases. Some really made the getaway to Latin America and literally got away with it.

    Josef Mengele is the worst for multiple reasons. He got married under his own name, WENT BACK TO GERMANY UNDER HIS REAL PASSPORT IN HIS REAL NAME ON HOLIDAY AND RETURNED, and died in a swimming accident after a normal lifespan.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele#In_South_America

    Mengele worked as a carpenter in Buenos Aires while lodging in a boarding house in the suburb of Vicente López.[95] After a few weeks, he moved to the house of a Nazi sympathizer in the neighborhood of Florida Este. He next worked as a salesman for his family's farm equipment company, Karl Mengele & Sons, and in 1951, he began making frequent trips to Paraguay as a regional sales representative for the firm.[96] He moved into an apartment in central Buenos Aires in 1953, used family funds to buy a part interest in a carpentry concern, and then rented a house in the suburb of Olivos in 1954

    After obtaining a copy of his birth certificate through the West German embassy in 1956, Mengele was issued an Argentine foreign residence permit under his real name. He used this document to obtain a West German passport using his real name and embarked on a trip to Europe.[99][100] He met with his son Rolf (who was told Mengele was his "Uncle Fritz")[101] and his widowed sister-in-law Martha for a ski holiday in Switzerland. He also spent a week in his home town of Günzburg.[102][103] When he returned to Argentina in September 1956, Mengele applied for and received an Argentinian identity card under the name José Mengele, a variation of his real name

    Martha and her son Karl Heinz followed about a month later, and the three began living together. Josef and Martha were married in 1958 while on holiday in Uruguay, and they bought a house in Buenos Aires

    Rolf, who had not seen his father since the ski holiday in 1956, visited him at the bungalow in 1977; he found an "unrepentant Nazi" who claimed he had never personally harmed anyone and only carried out his duties as an officer.[138]

    On 7 February 1979, while visiting his friends Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert in the coastal resort of Bertioga,[140] Mengele had a second stroke while swimming and drowned.

    Just to remind you, this is Josef "The angel of death" Mengele, who experimented on human beings for funsies and just to see what would happen. The guy that Slayer wrote their biggest hit around. This prick got away with it all, learnt nothing, had no shame AND WENT BACK TO GERMANY ON HOLIDAY.

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    [–] 19 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    What about this memo that says they can’t? It also states we can bear arms to protect ourselves from tyranny so… check mate Nazis

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    [–] 12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I’m sorry, they’ll have to speak with our attorneys at Heckler & Koch

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    Well, they can try but I wouldn't recommend it.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It is legal to booty trap your own house. Unrelated, just a funny thought.

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