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Now 'ere's what crazy-ol' u/peopleproblems would do. Crazy ol' u/peopleroblems would come to the sum of bitches we have in Acquisitions, and say 'how many weeks could a force of exactly Ukraine's force hold a position with everything we have currently sitting in storage deployment ready, but not otherwise deployed? Ok, and how about all the equipment we have being delivered under contract for that many weeks? Ok, now, get me a number to replace all that equipment with the newest contracts set to immediately fill everything we send for that first chunk. Ok, now double it, and phone the pencil pushers to get procurement offers for this shit from the defense manufacturers. Yes, definitely let their boards know too. Oh, don't mention where the already purchased equipment is going, that's national security interest. Just mention the US is interested in making them rich in turn for securing our country for a long time."
"And give that number to Congress?"
"Once the various board members hear first. We gotta feed the handlers before we treat the pawns in Congress."
"Sir is that, legal?"
"It's an official act. I just made it legal."
Amazing
I get the sentiment.
But i just want to make sure that everyone here knows that biden doesnt have carte blanche to do what he wants because hes not exactly aligned with the conservative supreme court that decides if its an official act or not.
I see this shit all the time and with the way the election went, im pretty convinced that the american electorate is dumb enough to think biden is actually immune.
In this case, I don't think SCOTUS would be able to do much. They tied their own hands on the "official presidential act" thing. It would have to be up to congress.
They conveniently forgot to define what constitutes an "official act", meaning they can re-interpret the meaning of that on the fly in order to reward their friends and punish opponents.
They said congress had to decide that.
That's not going to make this any easier or more difficult. Conservative officials all walk in lockstep.
Scotus is completely anathema to giving power away to other branches. No, if there is a question on what constitutes an official act it gets remanded to the lower courts.