The Supreme Court has opened the door to tyranny

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Could President Joe Biden, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor claimed in her dissenting opinion from the Supreme Court, order “the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival”?

The old Scrantonian might claim, in one of his lucid moments, that that Republican feller was a danger to the Constitution and that, as commander in chief, he had a duty to defend American democracy by turning Mar-a-Lago into talcum powder. If he did, would he be immune from prosecution on grounds that he had acted within his core presidential powers?

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