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> the question will now turn to what is actually an official duty Fortunately, the past rulings of this court have made the jurisprudence abundantly clear: If
by kibwen 2y ago
> the question will now turn to what is actually an official duty
Fortunately, the past rulings of this court have made the jurisprudence abundantly clear:
If Biden orders Trump to be assassinated, that's unofficial, and he can be prosecuted.
If Trump orders Biden to be assassinated, that's official, and he has complete immunity.
Easy, right?
- dang 2y agoPlease don't take HN threads into political flamewar hell, or any other flamewar hell. That's what we're trying to avoid here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- TylerE 2y agoThis feels likely highly selected be encorcement. Either let people vent or nuke the whole thread
- dang 2y agoThat's not how HN works. People don't get to break the site guidelines regardless of the topic, and people are welcome to make their substantive points thoughtfully regardless of their views. Killing the entire thread would be to punish the latter for the former. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Tadpole9181 2y agoIt's been this way for a while. Someone once made a post saying "Christianity is a perfectly peaceful religion and has met benefitted historical society" and then someone replying with "They genocided countless people and nations" would then get a "this is against site rules'.