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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be fascinated to see how this court would rule under a radical progressive president who [b]attempts to assassinate his opponents and openly take bribes.[/b] I am also tired of justices pretending they're historians and have any good thumb on the history of this country-follow plain text if you want to be originalists but don't conjure up convenient analyses of history :roll: [/quote]

Neither of these actions is covered by this ruling.  Those are not "official" duties.  Those are crimes, regardless of who is doing them.  
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If a crime has no enforcement possibility then is it really a crime?[/quote]

Crime absolutely has enforcement possibility.  
Tell me exactly how assassinating Justices on SCOTUS is an official act.  [/quote]

The President can order the military to assassinate anyone - he is the Commander-in-Chief so any order he gives is an official act - and no one is allowed to look at the President's motive and the evidence of the official act is inadmissible. [/quote]

How fascinating that Obama …asserted this same exact thing.

“The Obama administration today argued before a federal court that it should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans the executive branch has unilaterally determined to pose a threat… “Not only does the administration claim to have sweeping power to target and kill U.S. citizens anywhere in the world, but it makes the extraordinary claim that the court has no role in reviewing that power or the legal standards that apply.”

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/obama-administration-claims-unchecked-authority-kill-americans-outside-combat-zones
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Perhaps, there is a difference between targeting a real terrorist who is an American citizen and targeting a political rival on the argument that he is a national security risk.  Both are okay with the current Supremes.   [/quote]

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