The Atlantic via MSN: “Near the top of their sweeping, lawless opinion in Trump v. United States, Donald Trump’s defenders on the Supreme Court repeat one of the most basic principles of American constitutional government: “The president is not above the law.” They then proceed to obliterate it. Although the pro-Trump justices attempt to nest the breadth of their opinion in legalese, their finding that the president cannot be prosecuted for “official acts,” and that much of Trump’s efforts to seize power fall under that rubric, means that the justices have essentially legalized a losing president refusing to step down, as Trump tried to do after the 2020 election. The Court’s opinion presents an absurd paradox that defeats the purpose of a constitutional democracy governed by the rule of law. It has little basis in the Constitution or in the words of the Founders. It is the outcome that most benefits the Court’s preferred presidential candidate, while allowing the justices to live with themselves for defacing beyond recognition the Constitution and the concept of democratic self-determination…”
- See also Slate – Don’t Believe John Roberts. The Supreme Court Just Made the President a King.
- See also Empty Wheel – Justice Roberts’ Drone Strike on George Washington’s Legacy
- See also Liberal justices Sotomayor and Jackson issue scathing dissents of Trump immunity ruling
- See also The New York Times, Ruling Slows Trump Election Case but Opens Door to Airing of Evidence. The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling may allow prosecutors to detail much of their evidence against Donald Trump in front of a federal judge and the public; Donald Trump is entitled to substantial immunity on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election, the Supreme Court ruled.
- See also Law Dork – Roberts’s majority backs Trump in finding an expansive presidential immunity. Sotomayor’s dissent for the liberals warned of her “fear for our democracy.”… The Supreme Court, on a 6-3 partisan vote, ruled on Monday that former president Donald Trump has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his “core constitutional powers” and at least a presumption of immunity for any official actions within the “outer perimeter” of his duties. It is a shocking expansion of presidential power to benefit Trump that transforms the presidency — and, with it, the nation…”
- See also New York Magazine, The Intelligencer: “…But the decision in Trump v. United States has implications that go far beyond its impact on the 2024 presidential election. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent for the Court’s liberal bloc argues, it could give a reelected Trump or any other future president breathtaking freedom from accountability for criminal misconduct:Today’s decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency. It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law. Relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom about the need for “bold and unhesitating action” by the President … the Court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more … The main takeaway of today’s decision is that all of a President’s official acts, defined without regard to motive or intent, are entitled to immunity that is “at “at least … presumptive,” and quite possibly “absolute.”
- See also PBS.org, ‘No one is above the law,’ Biden says after Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity and Trump.
- See also Raw Story –
- See also Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunals. A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.
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