Chalk up another win for Donald Trump. This time, it’s executive immunity.
Politics :
After inciting the Jan. 6, 2001, Capitol Hill insurrection, staging a coup by ordering then-VP Mike Pence not to certify the results of the 2020 election, refusing to stop his MAGA sycophants from desecrating the US House and Senate or from erecting a noose to “hang” Mike Pence, stealing classified documents and taking them to his Mar-a-Lago home as “souvenirs,” and more, Donald Trump has committed his share of high crimes and misdemeanors. However, in his perpetual quest to avoid legal consequences, Trump petitioned the US Supreme Court to award him executive immunity by whining that every illegal act he committed was within his right as president and makes him immune to all accountability.
On Monday, the nation’s highest court agreed.
In yet another damning destruction of democracy, the conservative-leaning US Supreme Court decided to expand presidential power by ruling that presidents are immune from prosecution while conducting official acts. They even went a step further by making it difficult for anyone to decipher what is or isn’t an “official” act.
In a report from The New York Times, the court has virtually insulated the president of the United States (the most powerful person in the country and possibly the world) from criminal prosecution if he/she uses their official powers — and will allow them to freely seek cover behind the shield of “official power” to violate the law and exploit the trappings of the office for personal gain, or other “evil ends.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was absolutely outraged by the decision and delivered a powerful dissent to her court colleagues.
“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law,” Sotomayor wrote.
“The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding.
If the president “orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out — and I pray they never do — the damage has been done. The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took a public stance against her fellow justices and called them out for effectively enabling a grifter (should Trump be re-elected in November).Â
“Departing from the traditional model of individual accountability, the majority has concocted something entirely different: a Presidential accountability model that creates immunity — an exemption from criminal law — applicable only to the most powerful official in our Government,” she wrote.
Additionally, Jackson warned that under the conservative majority’s “new Presidential accountability mode,” a hypothetical president “who admits to having ordered the assassinations of his political rivals or critics…or one who indisputably instigates an unsuccessful coup…has a fair shot at getting immunity.”
Chief Justice John Roberts took issue with the dissents and dismissed them by suggesting that his 3 liberal colleagues had misinterpreted the majority’s opinion and were engaging in “fear-mongering.” He argued they should “strike a tone of chilling doom that is wholly disproportionate to what the Court actually does today — and that “like everyone else, the President is subject to prosecution in his unofficial capacity.”
Interestingly, the executive immunity ruling will now shield Donald Trump from several impending current court cases, including the Jan. 6th insurrection case, the classified documents case, and more. Â
As if that’s not enough, Trump now hopes to use his new “I’m-Above-The-Law” permission slip from the Supreme Court to reverse the verdict in the recent Stormy Daniels hush money case in New York City, where a jury found him guilty. Â
If Donald Trump is allowed to return to The White House in 2025, he may ignore the Constitution and never leave. Then, we can all thank the US Supreme Court for granting him executive immunity to do whatever he pleases and for crowning him King of America!
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Supreme Court grants executive immunity to presidents.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said on Monday she’ll submit articles of impeachment against members of the U.S. Supreme Court when the House of Representatives is back in session.
“The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control,” the left-wing lawmaker wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture. I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s post followed the court’s ruling Monday that shields former President Donald Trump from prosecution stemming from “official acts” as president, with major implications for his pending trial on election subversion.