Serious question - why can't Biden simply say "This is an official act and Kamala is the presidential nominee." Trump could (will?) murder people with his official act power. So why doesn't Biden use just a teeny-weeny bit?

Crickets.

I'm kind of a crazy person at that site because I'm often just talking to myself. Libs ignore me or block me. I'm going to make yet-another-alt so I can post in r/politics and at least get replies as they have their downvoting party.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I assumed it was visible to anyone who hasnt blocked us and didn’t know which instances hadn’t already blocked us lol

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You could come back to this thread. We got a lib in here.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

why can’t Biden simply say “This is an official act and Kamala is the presidential nominee.”

Because it's up to the political parties who the nominees are, not the government. So it's not an official act. Biden could withdraw as a candidate anytime he likes until he's nominated. After that, he could withdraw as nominee anytime he wants. But he has only influence as to who his replacement would be, not absolute say.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

He can do whatever he wants. He can execute Trump with an anti-artillery gun. But he won’t do that because he doesn’t care.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So it's not an official act.

Trump as president could make a citizen stateless and/or imprison them and/or torture them and/or murder them. If you don't believe that or are unwilling to accept it - google it. I'll wait. There's no hurry here.

An "official act" is whatever the president says it is if the court agrees. To stop the 6-3 GOP SCOTUS veto Biden can restructure the court now so whatever he does is an official act. Don't try to convince me a future Trump can strip citizenship, jail, torture, and murder a huge number of people no problem but smol bean President Biden is powerless right now to deal with a minor bullshit procedural problem.