Biden hasn’t said anything dehumanizing or called for the National Guard. While he disagrees with the message of some of the protesters, that hardly makes him the equivalent of Nixon who regularly denigrated the anti-war movement of his time.
As a child of the 60’s, the parallels between campus protests then and now is not lost on me. The right Wing reactions are nearly the same, except rather than calling them COMMUNISTS!, now it’s ANTI-SEMITES!
Eventually, the students of the 60’s and 70’s won the argument. I suspect the students of today will win thiers. Israel’s anger at the terrorist attack in October is understandable. However, the brutality and inhumanity of this war is becoming more apparent to Americans every day it continues.
Remember when Nixon had his thugs attack protesters? Of course you don’t.
Bibi is the right wings darling, he won’t stop the genocide that’s what happens when you vote for psychopathic right wingers.
Biden has been trying to stop the war, Bibi wants to murder more. Republicans support Putin, Putin supports Iran, Iran supports Hamas, republicans have turned their backs on the free western world.
Right wingers are really unhappy with student protests, Trump is unhappy he has no protesters. Josh Hawley said protesters should be killed and arrested.
The federalists packed the Supreme court and angered every woman in the country.
Endorsing Biden, Building Trades Union slams Trump as lackey for ‘his billionaire buddies’
The leadership of a union that represents more than 3 million building trades workers in the U.S. and Canada endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection bid on Wednesday, slamming presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump for catering to the needs of billionaires like himself during his first four years in the White House.
Trump 2025 has plans to use the military and mass arrest protesters and put them in concentration camps.
The Nixon rulings at the centre of Trump’s Supreme Court immunity case
Former president and special counsel have invoked different Supreme Court cases involving Richard Nixon to push opposing arguments as to whether Donald Trump has presidential immunity from prosecution
The case began in 1978 when Arthur Fitzgerald – a former contractor for the US Air Force – sued Nixon and other White House aides for damages after he lost his job after giving testimony to Congress.
Nixon appealed to a lower federal court, claiming he had immunity from civil liability. When the judges in the lower court disagreed, the former president took the case to an appeals court. That court also ruled against him.
Then, Nixon appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
Though the case was decided after Nixon left office, the court ruled in his favour, deciding that “the President’s absolute immunity extends to all acts within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his duties of office”.
In his brief to the Supreme Court, Mr Trump’s attorneys have argued he was acting within his official “outer perimeter” when he made false allegations of election fraud and asked then-vice president Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
“Neither the doctrine of separation of powers nor the generalized need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances,” Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote in the opinion.
Nixon handed over the tapes and papers and resigned 16 days later.
But, beyond Nixon, the ruling meant that a president must comply with a criminal subpoena and that presidential privilege cannot excuse someone from the judicial process.
Yay! You’re back!! I have been wondering whatever happened to the wise and witty Brian Carroll (not of Carrollton)! Alive and well, it seems. Yay, again! I’ll even say it backwards, Yay!
Nixon White House lawyer flags case that proves Trump has ‘no criminal immunity’
“Today’s SCOTUS argument on Trump’s criminal immunity revealed an activist conservative majority that wants to provide presidential immunity,” Dean said. “To do so, they must get around Nixon v Fitzgerald (1982), which clearly states there is no criminal immunity for presidents.”
Dean continued:
“For example, as stated in Nixon v Fitzgerald, in Chief Justice Burger’s concurring ruling in the 5-4 decision creating civil immunity: ‘… there is no contention that the President is immune from criminal prosecution in the courts under the criminal laws enacted by Congress, or by the States, for that matter. Nor would such a claim be credible. The Constitution itself provides that impeachment shall not bar ‘Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.’ Art. I, § 3, cl. 7. Similarly, our cases indicate that immunity from damages actions carries no protection from criminal prosecution.’”
“Lawyers used to laugh when they heard Nixon’s analysis during Frost/Nixon: ‘When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.’ Listening to the arguments before today’s Supreme Court, it appears the Republican Justices are all in with Richard Nixon,” Dean said on social media on Thursday evening. “American democracy may be unraveling quickly…”
I cite the fiery destruction of Hamburg. Dresden. Dozens of other German and Italian cities. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Dozens of other Japanese cities. What’s your justification? How does it compare with that of the current Israeli regime?
Znox11 23 days ago
Hey! I knew if I just kept coming here it would pay off!
Durak Premium Member 23 days ago
Flower, no. College students, yes.
Clear enough?
gerard.adelman 23 days ago
Glad that you are back. It has been a very long time away.
Jenna Barnaby Premium Member 23 days ago
Biden hasn’t said anything dehumanizing or called for the National Guard. While he disagrees with the message of some of the protesters, that hardly makes him the equivalent of Nixon who regularly denigrated the anti-war movement of his time.
ChristopherBurns 23 days ago
As a child of the 60’s, the parallels between campus protests then and now is not lost on me. The right Wing reactions are nearly the same, except rather than calling them COMMUNISTS!, now it’s ANTI-SEMITES!
Eventually, the students of the 60’s and 70’s won the argument. I suspect the students of today will win thiers. Israel’s anger at the terrorist attack in October is understandable. However, the brutality and inhumanity of this war is becoming more apparent to Americans every day it continues.
ncorgbl 23 days ago
All that time off and the come back shows no comprehension of what Biden says and does.
old1953 23 days ago
Good to see you back Brian!
TokenFudd 23 days ago
Glad to see a new one! thank you Sir!
GaryCooper 23 days ago
Yay! TPO is back!
Radish the wordsmith 23 days ago
Remember when Nixon had his thugs attack protesters? Of course you don’t.
Bibi is the right wings darling, he won’t stop the genocide that’s what happens when you vote for psychopathic right wingers.
Biden has been trying to stop the war, Bibi wants to murder more. Republicans support Putin, Putin supports Iran, Iran supports Hamas, republicans have turned their backs on the free western world.
Right wingers are really unhappy with student protests, Trump is unhappy he has no protesters. Josh Hawley said protesters should be killed and arrested.
The federalists packed the Supreme court and angered every woman in the country.
Endorsing Biden, Building Trades Union slams Trump as lackey for ‘his billionaire buddies’
The leadership of a union that represents more than 3 million building trades workers in the U.S. and Canada endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection bid on Wednesday, slamming presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump for catering to the needs of billionaires like himself during his first four years in the White House.
Trump 2025 has plans to use the military and mass arrest protesters and put them in concentration camps.
snappyboy 23 days ago
It’s so good to have you back Brian!
Escapee 23 days ago
Welcome back Brian!!!
braindead Premium Member 23 days ago
Good to see you back. Not a great reentry, though.
paul courry 23 days ago
Yeahhh! He’s back!
Radish the wordsmith 23 days ago
The Nixon rulings at the centre of Trump’s Supreme Court immunity case
Former president and special counsel have invoked different Supreme Court cases involving Richard Nixon to push opposing arguments as to whether Donald Trump has presidential immunity from prosecution
The case began in 1978 when Arthur Fitzgerald – a former contractor for the US Air Force – sued Nixon and other White House aides for damages after he lost his job after giving testimony to Congress.
Nixon appealed to a lower federal court, claiming he had immunity from civil liability. When the judges in the lower court disagreed, the former president took the case to an appeals court. That court also ruled against him.
Then, Nixon appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
Though the case was decided after Nixon left office, the court ruled in his favour, deciding that “the President’s absolute immunity extends to all acts within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his duties of office”.
In his brief to the Supreme Court, Mr Trump’s attorneys have argued he was acting within his official “outer perimeter” when he made false allegations of election fraud and asked then-vice president Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
“Neither the doctrine of separation of powers nor the generalized need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances,” Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote in the opinion.
Nixon handed over the tapes and papers and resigned 16 days later.
But, beyond Nixon, the ruling meant that a president must comply with a criminal subpoena and that presidential privilege cannot excuse someone from the judicial process.
adhansay 23 days ago
After seeing that the ‘toon had today’s date, I clicked back in case I missed other ones! Did not, fortunately – welcome back, Brian!
AndrewSihler 23 days ago
Yay! You’re back!! I have been wondering whatever happened to the wise and witty Brian Carroll (not of Carrollton)! Alive and well, it seems. Yay, again! I’ll even say it backwards, Yay!
Godfreydaniel 23 days ago
Now we’ll see if there’s another six months before the next TPO…….
MatthewJB 23 days ago
I’m not sure that I see the point of today’s strip. Is President Biden stomping on the college protestors?
Concretionist 23 days ago
Nice to see a new one from you, Brian C. It’s been too long (in my opinion). Hoping for more often into the future.
Sun 23 days ago
Joe Biden is not human, Joe Biden is a puppet with invisible strings.
Radish the wordsmith 23 days ago
Nixon White House lawyer flags case that proves Trump has ‘no criminal immunity’
“Today’s SCOTUS argument on Trump’s criminal immunity revealed an activist conservative majority that wants to provide presidential immunity,” Dean said. “To do so, they must get around Nixon v Fitzgerald (1982), which clearly states there is no criminal immunity for presidents.”
Dean continued:
“For example, as stated in Nixon v Fitzgerald, in Chief Justice Burger’s concurring ruling in the 5-4 decision creating civil immunity: ‘… there is no contention that the President is immune from criminal prosecution in the courts under the criminal laws enacted by Congress, or by the States, for that matter. Nor would such a claim be credible. The Constitution itself provides that impeachment shall not bar ‘Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.’ Art. I, § 3, cl. 7. Similarly, our cases indicate that immunity from damages actions carries no protection from criminal prosecution.’”
“Lawyers used to laugh when they heard Nixon’s analysis during Frost/Nixon: ‘When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.’ Listening to the arguments before today’s Supreme Court, it appears the Republican Justices are all in with Richard Nixon,” Dean said on social media on Thursday evening. “American democracy may be unraveling quickly…”
Fuzzy Kombu 22 days ago
I cite the fiery destruction of Hamburg. Dresden. Dozens of other German and Italian cities. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Dozens of other Japanese cities. What’s your justification? How does it compare with that of the current Israeli regime?