Squorlple

Squorlple, 6 months ago

Elon: bans hi-vis safety colors from factories

Elon when injury rates and severity increase:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a822a1cd-2bc1-4901-b1e9-5e779e44b3d6.jpeg

Squorlple, 6 months ago

The court ruling literally refers to him as an officer of the US Executive branch

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/498dbd17-fed4-452e-96d0-b6d110456840.jpeg

Squorlple, 6 months ago

The military isn’t relevant to the point I was making in that comment. I was pointing out the cognitive dissonance of the court ruling stating as a Finding of Fact that POTUS is “Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Branch” of the US, yet deciding that POTUS is also not an officer of the US. It’s in the court’s own verbiage that POTUS is categorically an officer and said office is that of the US Executive Branch; ergo, POTUS would be an officer of the US.

Squorlple, 6 months ago

Officer of the military ≠ officer in the military. Looping back to the point other commenters have made about civilian leadership over the military, the relevant section of the 14th Amendment establishes the existence of civilian offices under the US. The court finding also refers to POTUS as “Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Branch”. In each hypothetical scenario of the Commander in Chief being categorized as a civilian office or instead being categorized as a military office, it is covered by the critical word “or” in “hold any office, civil or military, under the United States…”. Ultimately, the role of Commander in Chief is an “office, civilian or military, under the United States”, and to “have engaged in insurrection” while in this office of the US would disqualify a person from holding this office again (except the court decided otherwise 🙄).

Squorlple, 6 months ago

The judge: “POTUS isn’t an officer of the United States”

Also the judge:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f170b5c4-8e52-4bfb-aca8-5d5a54095926.jpeg

I sure hope questions of fact don’t get overturned on appeal as you say they rarely do, since that excerpt is from the Finding of Fact section of the court ruling.