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dizzant • 02/19/2025 • 2 replies • view on HN

You're correct that the Supreme Court ultimately has final appellate jurisdiction on matters of immunity, but that's a long way from enabling dictatorship.

To get there, we would need to assume that the Supreme Court, including only 3 Trump-appointed Justices, is both unwaveringly partisan and unwaveringly supportive of dictatorship.


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procaryote • 02/20/2025

So far, they generally seem to be

throw16180339 • 02/21/2025

The Supreme Court is unwaveringly partisan and corrupt; its members have taken bribes and invented new rights for Trump to keep him out of jail. I wouldn't assume that they'd reject a dictatorship.