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Generally the way to hold a president accountable is to impeach him and remove him from office. Under this ruling, the court system is generally not a way to k
by marcell 2y ago
Generally the way to hold a president accountable is to impeach him and remove him from office.
Under this ruling, the court system is generally not a way to keep him accountable.
So it’s not that there is no accountability or way to “punish”, a rogue president, it’s just a different method of accountability than what applies to you and me.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoThis does put the President above the law. Congress can choose to impeach, but they are not doing so based on the laws of the land, but based on their own determination (whether it is in their best interest for that President to be gone or not), which (unsurprisingly) is split along political lines (which is why it's so hard to actually impeach the president). Therefore impeachment is not a means to hold a President accountable for illegal or anti-democratic actions, but rather it is a means for a united Congress to have some power over the President in the event he managed to piss off enough people from both parties.
- kristjansson 2y ago> Generally the way to hold a president accountable is to impeach him and remove him from office. Impeachment is a political solution to political disagreements. This opinion makes most disagreements with 'official acts' a political question, to be settled by election or impeachment. Critically (and thankfully) it rejects outright the idea that impeachment is the _only_ mechanism restraining a president. Criminal liability is still a viable mechanism for holding a president responsible for all unofficial acts, and potentially for some official acts.