AOC Says She'll File Articles Of Impeachment Amid SCOTUS 'Corruption Crisis'

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94. The lower courts would not be enforcing SCOTUS' ridiculous ruling

They would be enforcing non-ridiculous laws.

Decide to cut off the social security checks of TFG and anyone who voted for him? Cutting those checks is 100% an executive function that the chief executive is sworn to execute. So if the president refused to do it? Under this ruling he would be immune from prosecution.

But the first court that the issue came to (regardless of the party of the judge) would order the SSA to cut the check and they really wouldn't have a choice. The president could indeed promise to pardon whoever it was that followed his order - which would keep them from prosecution.

What it wouldn't do is protect them from contempt of court... which requires no conviction... can result in jail time... and is not always subject to the president's pardon power.