The main weakness
is it’s a pain in the ass.
no link to source or alternative text fallback
Links to sources & alt text are for everyone: images can break, search engines can search, assistive technology can support users. They provide fault tolerance, accessibility, searchability.
According to the constitution, Congress would be the check against the executive.
While there is structural defect in the absence of a government office that could prosecute the president for violations against the government, the DOJ policy is based on executive structure & separation of powers stipulated by the constitution & its interpretation by SCOTUS.
The executive branch enforces federal laws including by prosecution by authority the president supervises & delegates to the branch’s departments. As supervisor of executive branch prosecutions & bearer of executive privileges (to ensure the branch’s (1) effective operation & (2) separation of powers from other branches), criminal prosecution of the (office of) president creates some conflicts. The president would basically be both defendant & prosecutor in their own criminal trial. They’d decide what evidence to present & withhold for & against them in their prosecution & defense. While the president can delegate prosecutorial powers to other people, that delegation is revocable.
The president is charged to perform unique official duties no one else is authorized to perform. In the DOJ’s estimation, criminal adjudication (in the judicial branch) with “protracted personal involvement of the president in trial proceedings” would impact operation of the executive branch in ways that challenge separation of powers.
under our constitutional plan as outlined in Article I, sec. 3, only the Congress by the formal process of impeachment, and not a court by any process should be accorded the power to interrupt the President or oust an incumbent
Impeachment by Congress is available in the constitution to open a convict to criminal prosecution (impeachment judgment clause).
This was all explained in your document.
and the Justice Department operates under the Executive
Does someone need to retake civics or read an org chart? The Justice Department is basically the government’s attorney’s/prosecutors. They represent the federal government at court. They’re not the criminal (article 3) federal court system or judges.
is to believe that Epstein was arrested and Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for the crime of trafficking no one, to no one, to engage in no acts
I think the released documents disclose a bit more than “no one, to no one” engaging “in no acts”.
I recall speculative, right-wing theories taking off during the Biden administration, MAGA fanning the flames to stir political followers to vote, and the case documents released before Trump was sworn in. It’s curious that the left who were ridiculing MAGA over this type of “deep state” rhetoric seem to be embracing it or crowding out the more critical voices.
Also, yeah dude, you should be able to justify every single action you take ever.
Words & expressions of fiction don’t need justification: if you dislike them, then don’t read them. Easy. Alternatively, start a committee of people who give a shit & get off mutually gratifying each other, I guess.
All of this is fine until we start banning people over disagreeing with opinions hostile to liberal expression. If you don’t understand why someone would object to violating the norms of open discourse, then I don’t know what to tell you, but I’m going to judge the hell out of you.
I’ve never read It or cared. I can’t see the removed comments.
However, are we really banning people for defending artistic license to write about obscene shit in a horror story? Are pearl clutchers claiming that shit needs justification? That’s who we are? Awesome.
We believe the rumored client list is real now? Case documents for Giuffre v. Dershowitz have already been unsealed & released. I thought everyone was calling claims of secret, unreleased documents a right-wing conspiracy theory a few months ago. It’s really hard to follow what we’re supposed to think here. What’s going on?
Awesome: instead of breaking the web, can we link to source or provide alt text so everyone has a fallback & for accessibility?
Edit: thanks, OP.
That was clear when you wrote
Liberals, the left, progressives whatever you wanna call them
to refer to anything to the left of center and about US politics.
People at lemmy keep raising this left & liberal distinction, and it’s incredibly annoying, since liberal means left in US politics.
My conjecture is that it’s the German & Euro part of the community doing it & teaching it to US novices who don’t know better. Their understanding that liberal means classical liberal conservative & their uninformed thinking that a president during Obama’s terms can push any radical change and simply chose not to out of liberalism could explain the unreal arguments & expectations they keep raising here.
In North America, they call leftists liberals & don’t split hairs like Europe & Latin America.
In Europe and Latin America, liberalism means a moderate form of classical liberalism and includes both conservative liberalism (centre-right liberalism) and social liberalism (centre-left liberalism). In North America, liberalism almost exclusively refers to social liberalism.
People in the US get seriously confused that the Liberal party in other countries (eg, Australia) isn’t liberal.
So, unrelatable & mildly infuriating? Cool.
Some would argue it’s culturally imperialistic to impose US cultural sensitivities on the rest of the international English community. Wasn’t the inventor of git Finnish? The entire world uses git.
All these ICE impersonators make me wonder if refugees & illegal immigrants should impersonate ICE. 🤔
one of these is not like the others
sorry, bruh: on a scale from critically important to idgaf, this ain’t ranking
Nope, and the suckers who did can suck big, fat ones.
(especially) the demographic thereof
Yeah! Fuck the demographic! Still beats reddit nonsense.
Bruh, everyone else just posts a link to an archive.
Okay, but where are the diagrams?
Makes it harder: when I go to the wrong website, the manager simply doesn’t suggest credentials (it does not have) for it. That causes me to wonder why.
Without a password manager, a user is never prompted to wonder. They’d simply not notice.