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13 days agoThe counter:
When the president does it, it’s legal
The supreme court went and said that anything vaguely related to presidential duties can’t be questioned by the court.
This is frighteningly close to President = King and tyranny.
A ‘nonce’ is something used when encrypting data - it adds randomness into the data, so that identical messages will be encrypted differently. This stops hackers executing attacks where they can guess the first bit of the message, and work backwards to the encryption key (among different attacks).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce