In case you hadn't figured it out yet, all doubts about the MAGA Revolution Supreme Court have been eliminated today. The MAGA revolutionary Supreme Court has just ruled that any president, and certainly their beloved Trump, can break any law that he or she wishes to break if they simply declare that their action is an "official presidential act". What horseshit this is. What happens when the law is lawless? What happens when a fascist MAGA dictator takes over a country with the active support of the Supreme Court? We see it today. Donald Trump is now allowed to break any law - assassinate a political rival as on official presidential act to save the country from a grave danger? Sure, why not?
From presidential historian, Michael Bescheloss:
“If you had any doubt, if Trump were to win in November, that he would feel free to pursue a fascist dictatorship, unrestricted by law, the Supreme Court now provides such a president absolute immunity to do whatever he wants as long as he calls everything he does official acts.
Now let’s turn to the fierce and fearless words of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in her dissenting opinion:
“The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding. This new official-acts immunity now ‘lies about like a loaded weapon’ for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation…The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. 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. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends.
Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”
How nice it has been to live in a democratically elected republic for my 80 years. How nice it was to live in an America where the Rule of Law prevailed, imperfectly, but prevailed. How nice it was to live in a country where No One Was Above the Law. But, you know, fascists will be fascists…. Welcome to the new America, the Trump America, the Putin America, the Authoritarian Does Whatever the Hell He Wants America.
This is way beyond anything I ever imagined for my beloved America. I'm not sure how beloved America is to become.
America will overturn this atrocity.
