People should start preparing themselves for #SCOTUS granting #Trump#immunity and thinking about what they are willing to do to protect their families.
While the flag was up, the court was still contending w/whether to hear a #2020election case, w/Justice #Alito on the losing end of that decision. In coming wks, the justices will rule on 2 climactic cases involving the storming of the Capitol on #Jan6, incl’g whether #Trump has #immunity for his actions. Their decisions will shape how accountable he can be held for trying to overturn the last presidential election & his chances for re-election in the upcoming one.
They’ve yet to rule on either Trump’s #immunity claim or the #Jan6 case disputing the use of the #obstruction of an official proceeding by defendant Fischer that could impact #Trump as well as other #J6 defendants.
#Trump warned that Biden & family could face criminal prosecutions unless the US supreme court awards Trump #immunity in his own criminal trials
Interview with Time magazine, Trump painted a startling picture of his 2nd term including he may let states monitor #pregnant women to enforce #abortion laws.
Eric Cortellessa of Time says Trumps plans are “an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world”
After Bush 43 and his executive power grabs, a fed up Republican judge said that the Right just takes positions, then tries to shoehorn them into some “originalism” that never really existed. #scotus#meme#immunity#constitution#history#politics
One thing the members of the US Supreme Court should bear in mind, in their senseless considerstions: if the President of the USA has immunity, there is nothing to stop this President from "replacing" them. With their own blessings.
If you were listening yesterday, you heard an unbelievably calm discussion by the Supreme Court about whether it might be acceptable or a President to assassinate their opponent and have "immunity" to break any law they please without prosecution.
Judge Wendell Griffen on the day fascism appeared in the Supreme Court:
"Yesterday a lawyer stood in the well of the Supreme Court of the United States and boldly declared that a President is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution if he/she commits murder, bribery, sedition, conspiracy to overthrow the government, or any other crimes as an 'official act.'”
“'I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act,' lawyer Marc Elias, whose firm defends democratic election laws, wrote today on social media. He added: 'I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.'”
“They’re expanding the president’s power in response to January 6th, the horrors of that day. That is producing, not constraints on a president’s power, but enhancement of a president’s power to do things without any accountability.”
“I don’t say that lightly or for effect, and I don’t want to make my personal feelings the point here. But when I woke up this morning and saw the news coverage writ large, it didn’t reflect what happened yesterday. We slid over the edge of a cliff, and we won’t stop now until we hit bottom.”
“On Thursday, during oral arguments in Trump v. United States, the Republican-appointed justices shattered [the illusions that the Supremes would protect democracy]. This was the case we had been waiting for, and all was made clear—brutally so.”
“These justices donned the attitude of cynical partisans, repeatedly lending legitimacy to the former president’s outrageous claims of immunity from criminal prosecution. To at least five of the conservatives, the real threat to democracy wasn’t Trump’s attempt to overturn the election—but the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute him for the act.”
“The conservative judges, or at least most of them, on the highest court in the land are very clearly choosing Trump over our institutions. And none more belligerently than Samuel Alito. … The conservative jurists chose Trump. It will stand as one of the blackest days in Supreme Court history.”
As Jonathan V. Last says, Trump is the great revealer. For years, conservatives claimed they were all about the Constitution as written, the rule of law, the judiciary not legislating.
Turns out – with the Supreme Court leading the way – that this was all a big lie. The Supremes are a charade, and corrupt to the hilt, the right-wing bloc controlling the court. (Those are my words, not Last's.)
"The Roberts Court is a corrupt institution which operates in concert with and on behalf of the Republican Party and to an ambiguous degree right-wing anti-regulatory ideology. If we believe in a different set of policies or even democratic self-governance we will have to succeed at that with the Supreme Court acting as a consistent adversary."