Earlier today, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that Donald Trump is immune from "official acts" that he performed in his final days at the White House over three years ago...i.e. helping to incite the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Unsurprisingly, the ruling was a 6-3 decision—with all six conservative justices giving Trump this huge break only four months before the presidential election, and all three liberal justices (Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan) dissenting with strong rebukes.
Sotomayor herself pointed out that this partisan ruling provides very disturbing but realistic scenarios of future presidents (and even President Biden himself) using executive immunity to carry out acts that would otherwise cause them to be impeached, sent to prison or even executed for outright treason.
Sotomayor had this to say about her conservative colleagues' decision:
"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.
"In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."
So as of July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court—which consists of three Republican justices (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett) who were sworn in under Trump thanks to Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell—just paved the way for a government that the United States fought Great Britain to rid from this country about 250 years ago to return to American soil.
The whole point of impeachments—letting government officials know that they're not above the law—has been rendered moot.
The United States Supreme Court, led by a conservative majority that has been corrupted by the MAGA mentality, has betrayed the democratic foundation upon which the greatest country in the world was built on.
It's up to us Americans who do not want a crooked demagogue like Trump to take the highest office of the land to stop him from doing so this November.
And if this SCOTUS ruling doesn't scare you, then Google PROJECT 2025...the Heritage Foundation-conjured blueprint that Trump and his regime will implement should he be sworn in next January. If you love American democracy, then you must prevent this devastating plan from being realized at all costs.
Vote on November 5. And VOTE BLUE.
Carry on.
President Biden: It will now depend on the character of the men and women who hold the presidency to define the limits of the power of the presidency because the law will no longer do it. I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers as I have for three and a half… pic.twitter.com/IKCgMezJHl
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) July 2, 2024
The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2024
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.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in September 2018:
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) July 1, 2024
“Under the Constitution, the president is not above the law. No one is above the law…The president remains subject to the law.” @AccountableGOP
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🚨This SCOTUS ruling on immunity is a dire warning for our republic. It could enable Trump to use Project 2025 and be immune from consequences.
— VoteVets (@votevets) July 1, 2024
We're dangerously close to a dictatorship, and that isn't what we served to defend.
Our democracy is at stake. VOTE BLUE.
Over the past 235 years, America has had 46 Presidents of the United States. All have sworn, to the best of their ability, "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) July 1, 2024
Previously, no President ever attempted to overturn the will of the people.
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I am still waiting for a single republican to explain to me why trump needs Presidential Immunity if he is not a criminal.
— Sarah Ironside 💙 (@SarahIronside6) July 1, 2024
The fact that the Founding Fathers included Impeachment in the Constitution proves that they did not believe or intend for any President to have any kind of immunity.
— Secret Agent Number Six (@DesignationSix) July 1, 2024
You do not have to be a Constitutional scholar to know this.
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