Is this what you want?
The Supreme Court finally decided on the case involving whether or not Trump is liable for actions taken while in office. This is directly relates to January 6th Insurrection, and what he did and didn’t do on that day and leading up to it. I don’t fully understand the ruling— in case you didn’t notice, I’m not a lawyer. But in my readings, it said the president is not liable for actions taken as an “offical act,” but he is liable for actions taken that are not official, i.e. a private citizen. The problem is determining what is official and not official. What this ruling says is that Donald Trump is largely immune from prosecution.
In a vote 6-3, the liberal, dissenting members of the court were strong in their disagreement with this ruling, feeling it is a “vast expansion of presidential power.” Justice Sotomayor wrote: “The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding.”
She continued, “The President is now a king above the law.”
The case is being sent down to a lower court to decide what actions on January 6th were offical and which were as a private citizen. This most surely makes it impossible for the trial brought against Trump by Jack Smith will not happen before the election.
Justices Thomas and Alito failed to recuse themselves, even though both of their wives are known to be involved in far right causes; particularly in Thomas’s case, who was involved with the Maga “stop the steal” following the election and into January 6th. During his presidency, Trump created a Supreme Court that would protect him.
So where does this leave us? My hope is that this decision, and the fact that we most likely won’t see Jack Smith’s case against Trump for election interference go to trial before the election, will energize Democrats to loudly support and vote for Biden and Harris. If Trump is elected, the first thing he will do is pardon himself and/or stop any trials pending against him. And then he will have the power of a king, as Justice Sotomayor said.
It’s hard not to constantly think of what Trump said when he was running for President the first time in 2016: “I can stand in the middle of Fifth avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
How did he know that? It’s frightening.
In his column today Steve Bechloss wrote, “Lawyer and scholar Neal Katyal, who has argued dozens of cases before the Supreme Court, put it this morning on MSNBC, ‘This decision today is unfortunately a blueprint for how to end the rule of law.’”
All good people in America have to rise up and push against this man, and vote.
A King lives in constant mistrust of everyone: Princes, Lords and Rules crave his position. Diet Cokes, overcooked burgers and steaks, french fries and ketchup can convey poison. Arrows flung from the roughs can pierce his heart.
Easy to be discouraged, though more energized to support democratic candidates. Im not a lawyer either but seems to me this ruling allows Biden to act freely to arrest those who seek to overthrow the government or who have colluded with foreign governments to undermine it.