It is not bad enough that these political hacks are swimming in special interest money they also crap on the Constitution whenever GOP policies are involved.
The nightmare from K Street has happened….Trump gets immunity….
The Supreme Court delivered its historic ruling on presidential immunity Monday—and it was welcomed by Donald Trump, who is now immune from prosecution for “official acts” during his presidency. “Big win for our constitution and democracy,” he wrote in an all-caps post on Truth Social. “Proud to be an American!” Other Republicans also praised the 6-3 ruling, while leading Democrats shared the dismay of the dissenting liberal justices.
- Dissents: “With fear for our democracy, I dissent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote. She said the ruling sends the message: “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,” NBC News reports. “In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” she wrote. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that the ruling “breaks new and dangerous ground,” creating immunity “applicable only to the most powerful official in our Government.”
- House leaders: House Speaker Mike Johnson praised the ruling as a “victory for former President Trump and all future presidents, and another defeat for President Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice and Jack Smith,” the Guardian reports. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader, released what he called a statement “in connection with the Supreme Court decision to bend the knee to the Insurrectionist-in-Chief.” He warned that the ruling “sets a dangerous precedent for the future of our nation.”
- A ‘dramatic expansion of presidential power’: “As Justice Sotomayor’s appalled dissent makes clear, this ruling is a dramatic expansion of presidential power—not just for Trump but for all presidents,” Charlie Savage writes at the New York Times. “She cites the notorious World War II ruling that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast.”
- A ‘license for authoritarianism’: Sen. Richard Blumenthal was among many Democratic lawmakers to condemn the decision—and members of the court—in strong terms. In posts on X, he called the ruling a “license for authoritarianism.” Members of the court’s conservative majority, he wrote, “will now be rightly perceived by the American people as extreme & nakedly partisan hacks—politicians in robes,” he wrote.
- Ruling rebukes ‘attempts to weaponize our legal system’ against Trump: Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee praised the ruling, Politico reports. Its chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, said the committee will “continue to oversee dangerous lawfare tactics in our judicial system.” Another member, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, said the ruling “rebukes Democrats’ blatant attempts to weaponize our legal system against Donald Trump.”
- ‘Absurd and dangerous’: Eric Holder, the attorney general in Barack Obama’s administration, slammed the “absurd and dangerous” ruling in a post on X. He wrote: “The Trump immunity decision says: a president CAN VIOLATE THE CRIMINAL LAW if he acts within his broadly defined “constitutional authority.”
- Decision will be seen in context of Trump’s connections: “No case to date has put Trump’s personal interests so directly in the hands of the justices he appointed—and from whom he has expected a sympathetic hearing,” Jess Bravin writes at the Wall Street Journal, noting that two other members of the court, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, “have familial ties to Trump’s cause.” “However ironclad the legal rationales behind their votes, the justices’ actions cannot avoid being viewed in the context of such connections,” Bravin writes.
Weaponized DoJ?
If Trump wins the election then you have not seen anything yet.
This whole fiasco proves just how corrupt the political hacks are , those people we trust to stand by the Constitution….they not only do not stand by the Constitution they crap on it yearly.
I am behind AOC 100%…..
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday said she will file unspecified articles of impeachment U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority ruled that former President Donald Trump is entitled to “absolute immunity” for “official acts” performed while he was in office, a decision that prompted dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to declare her “fear for our democracy.”
Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said on social media that “the Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.”
“Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture,” she added. “I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-justice-impeachment
This may go nowhere in a GOP controlled House but at least someone is standing up to the fat cat slugs on the Court.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Last desperate action in a hopeless situation. The jackboots are coming… every good and decent thing is about to be swallowed by authoritarian darkness. Orwell ascends!
There is more damage SCOTUS can do….chuq
Yes, they can put a big black “T” on the star field of our beloved flag — they can justify all democrats and socialists wearing the big D or S on their clothing or of putting those people into ghettos …this is a replay of a nightmare that happened years ago… the playbook is the same …
Again I do not believe that will be tolerated. chuq
This cannot happen. Unlike dems, repubs follow the Constituion and republicans would not allow a president to have unbridled power. Trump did not do such things first term so why do they think he can or would even try to assume the powers of a roman god/king in a second term ? Jackboots ? I think they exist but this his why we want our guns, not to shoot a deer but to protect against jackboots.
The Republicans not only would allow a president “Unbridled” power but they are doing everything in their own power to make sure he ends exactly like that… with unbridled power.. that is what the recent court decision does .. it unleashes his ability to do anything he wants to do and to put the fact of his constitutional duty onto it and to never ever have to worry about prosecution or accountability– Remember, please how much he seems to admire Putin and Orban …Remember please, how one of the big Republican rallies had Orban as their featured speaker … The MAGAT part of our country is not only fully prepared to support dictatorial powers in their leaders, I think they are thirsting and hungering for them. And may I remind you that the puny weapons owned by individual citizens are not going to have any significant effect against a fully armed contingent of troops obeying the orders of a dictator to do whatever they need to do to disperse the rabble or put the opposition down….
Well at least this decision should have come as no surprise to anyone in America. I’m English, and it didn’t surprise me.
Best wishes, Pete.
I do not think many Ame4ricans that thought justice would prevail….not from SCOTUS. chuq
I’m being agnostic. Sets a precedent for anyone who sits in that office. Name doesn’t have to be Trump.
That is true and these days with all the political hacks in office it is something to consider. chuq
You got that right. You got that One hundred percent right.
Sotomayor’s assertion is absurd. All the court did was define the difference between presidential poicy (for which he cannot be prosecuted) and being a crook during and after leaving office for which he CAN be prosecuted. What should be worrisome is that every president has been shielded by an unwritten practice and actually had immunity for being a crook except Nixon. Pepublicans , led by Goldwater told him “he’ll have no republican support, he’s guilty and it’s time to hit the road or republicans would support impeachment and removal”.
tee with her….and no president that I know of was so blatant in his ‘after life’….chuq
Blatant is disturbing. We do not prosecute if blatant. Prosecute if unlawful only. However, blatant gives us a very expanded documentation to see all the blatants and therefore more in which to find the sins. 12 million Biden illegals means 12 million felonies + related laws ( fairly blatant) and where’s the outrage and impeachment ?
Don’t worry that drama will commence soon……w3hat about the ‘illegals’ that came in when Trump was prez and there were many….do we play the same game with his? No body wants to talk about the obvious…..so we will continue along this path. chuq
I’ve been speechless since I heard. I’m numb, angry, distressed, afraid … don’t know what to do, don’t know what will happen. Glad I turned 74 yesterday … will reblog soon!!
No one is coming to help, right? 🙁
Happy belated birthday…..I just turned 77 last week…..and I am dealing with this and will keep writing. chuq
Happy belated bday to you too!! 🎂 … and I’ll be here reading your puara!!
Many thanx my friend….chuq
Read a book about how Germany fell in 1939. There is the playbook about what might happen here and very soon now as the stage has already been set.
Hmm, let’s see. Biden is president until noon, January 20, 2025. So that means he could order Trump to be arrested, hauled to Guantanamo Bay, along with Alito, Thomas, Johnson, MTG, Gaetz and Cruze on the grounds that they were a danger to the country and it was his duty as president to deal with them. And no one could do anything about it because he’s immune from prosecution? As commander and chief of the armed forces he could order the Marines to surround the upcoming Republican national convention and put all of the attendees in a concentration camp on the grounds that as president it was his duty to protect the country from radical extremists?
Don’t those idiots on the court realize that this works both ways? The state legislature here in Wisconsin found that out the hard way when Walker lost the governor’s office to a Democrat and they scrambled in an all-night session to try to claw back the near dictatorial powers they’d given Walker when he was in office before Evers could use them.
Good point but a president cannot perform powers which are not listed (enumerated) for him. That would be impeachment and possible removal and nothing to do with immunity. Court merely stated difference between immunity for action of his office(immunity) and things that are crooked and illegal (no immunity). Democrats have twisted this to mean a president has unbridled power to do anything – not true. But they run this scam becauses they cannot run on their record which is a disaster. So they run on “Trump a monster” campaign.
When your arguments blow up in your face, then write some more about how good the coming tempest is going to be….
I would have no problem with that scenario….I would applaud it chuq
I am afraid the individual you referenced is beyond thinking about such things in those terms you described.