The Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can be a dictator | If you’re a (Republican) president, they let you do it
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/02/the-rules-that-donald-can-be-a-dictator/
The Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can be a dictator | If you’re a (Republican) president, they let you do it
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/02/the-rules-that-donald-can-be-a-dictator/
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>If Donald Trump commits a crime in office, writes Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent for Trump v. United States, “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.”
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>It is yet another reminder that this Supreme Court is a lawless entity whose only legal guideline is “What’s good for the Republican Party and their political goals?” But, by helping Trump’s presidential campaign, the six Federalist Society-linked justices went a step further, setting up Trump to return to the White House as a dictator instead of a president. For, as Sotomayor writes, “the President is now a king above the law.”
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>Indeed, if Trump makes good on his hints he’ll stay past his second term, this could make that president-for-life dream a reality. Another coup would require committing more crimes, but now the Supreme Court said that it’s fine for Trump to do that, as long as he does it “officially.”
It is not hyperbole to suggest that the next election is a point of no return.
We must make reforming the Supreme Court, and judicial reform wherever needed, a central part of the democratic platform. Democrats, progressives, and independents still have the ability to rectify a judiciary gone wild, but that must happen *now* and we must unite despite any differences.
Vote.
Like your life depends on it.
Because it does.
Complacency is the enemy. Don’t let republicans put a convicted felon with immunity into power. Check your voter registration and vote. Tell your friends to vote
This November vote like your kids future is at stake.
I’d rather vote for a bedridden Biden if the cost of not voting for him is our democracy and freedom.
Might be your most important vote of your life
Call out Seal Team Six, Joe! Rid the country of this clear and present danger.
What people are failing to say is that now Joe Biden has opportunity, and every reason, to take out this dick-tater trumpkinmaganut – trump can be declared a threat to American Democracy.
Newsflash to trumkin ‘publicans, the immunity ruling works for “ALL presidents”, not just your flaming orange turd.
The next time a GOP president wins the election that will be the last meaningful election in the US. From then on there will only be GOP presidents. And they could all be named Trump.
It also ruled that Joe can be a dictator.
@DarkBrandon
Well, it’s a nice thought for an idle moment.
How does America think the next trump term would look? I can tell you based on recent, very recent history.
Donald Trump was charged, convicted, and is awaiting sentencing.
Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
Trump’s former campaign vice chairman, Rick Gates, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was charged, convicted, and is reporting to prison today. (He was also charged in connection with a scheme to defraud, but escaped federal trial as a result of a Trump pardon. He’s also facing a related state trial on wire fraud and money laundering charges.)
He’s also facing an upcoming trial on wire fraud and money laundering charges.)
Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
Trump’s former adviser and former campaign aide, Roger Stone, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
Trump’s former adviser and former White House aide Peter Navarro, was charged, convicted, and is currently in prison.
Trump’s former campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
The Trump Organization’s former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
Trump’s former White House national security advisor, Michael Flynn, was charged and convicted.
Though he was later acquitted at trial, Trump’s former inaugural committee chair, Tom Barrack, was charged with illegally lobbying Trump on behalf of a foreign government. (Elliot Broidy was the vice chair of Trump’s inaugural committee, and he found himself at the center of multiple controversies, and also pled guilty to federal charges related to illegal lobbying.)
Two lawyers associated with Trump’s post-defeat efforts, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, have pleaded guilty to election-related crimes.
And did I mention that former president’s business was itself found guilty of tax fraud? Because it was.
Vote your fucking keesters off, Americans.
I think the only way forward is for the People to amend the Constitution to say that a former President is not immune from criminal prosecution for acts committed during their term of office. John Roberts says the Constitution confers immunity; We the People say it doesn’t.
Write your Senators and Representatives, Federal and State. We have to do something. https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/
They ruled that they have the final say as to what is official as well. So they made themselves the highest authority in the land too.
Call your state reps asking for them to call for a constitutional convention to add an amendment to state clearly that the president is not above the law and bound by the same laws as all citizens.
I just called my state reps asking for this, I’m hoping my state Colorado leads the charge.
Ideally we’d also add an amendment to restructure the Supreme Court.
He will not be voted in. He will try to steal it again.
But strike down student loan forgiveness, okay…got it…
Why aren’t there more protests its kinda weird?
A Republican presidential candidate has only won the popular vote ONCE since 1992 (2004). Republicans are outnumbered across the country, and their victories in national elections are due only to the antiquated system we have for electing Presidents. They’ve poured millions of dollars into state races and focused a lot of their energy into propping up crony state and federal judges to help rig the game so that they can stay in power. This is just the most recent evidence of the fact that if Republicans can’t win, they rig the game.
So hypothetically, if Biden orders law enforcement to respond to a riot, after the fact the conservative-captured supreme court could say that it wasn’t official and Biden would be culpable for any damages or police malfeasance that they can possibly gin up for doing what any normal president would do?
Remember kids, if you’re a rich white man, you can actually convince other non rich “people” that you’re one of them, and to vote for you, because there is much in common you share with them. Also, you can donate to him to find out what that is. You can also appoint your own judge to rule inappropriately on your case when they have you on record trying to “find more votes” in an election you’re losing when you’re ambiguously threatening the local election official (who is also a Republican, naturally) with vague consequences for not doing what you want.
It’s amazing the country works this way, truly amazing. The best country, and very strong.
This post is rich. Conservatives are supposed to be absolutists to the founding fathers and the constitution. Then trump makes up ” Presidential immunity” and every Republican sucks the dick. And you have a SCOTUS bought out by Republicans to do whatever Trump wants.
If you don’t think trump will try and assassinate his rivals you are living in a box.
Welcome to the 4th Reich and conservatives are the ones to be blamed
Grab ‘em right in the Democracy!
I’d like to see the Biden campaign stop running against *Trump*, and start positioning against the Republican party + the extreme SCOTUS. The ads practically write themselves –
“Look what the Republicans have done to you over the past 6 years … appointed judges that took your rights away if you’re a woman … bribes are A-ok now … a criminal immunity ruling that would have let Richard Nixon off the hook … [insert other shitty stuff here]. And now, they want you to sign up for 4 more years of that? [insert goofy Trump “I will be a dictator on day #1” quote as close out … fade to black … [democrats.org](http://democrats.org) logo & name]”
Forget the Project 2025 stuff, it’s way-too-over-the-heads of the average voter.
Time for Biden to mass fire every member of the GOP that sits on the bench
I’m convinced that they are already ruling like they’ve already won in November. I think there’s going to be some major fuckery where they declare themselves the winner of the election, regardless of results. It’s going to be an absolute shitshow later this year.
Any ruling by the current court should be ignored. This country is not a theocratic dictatorship. That’s the driver behind these absolutely unconstitutional decisions. A sick, twisted devotion to an imaginary supernatural being created by primitive nomadic tribesmen who didn’t know where the sun went at night.
What makes no sense about this ruling is that it allows any president to ignore supreme court rulings. Like with Biden’s student loan forgiveness, it would be (or would have been) illegal for Biden to just do it anyway despite what the court said, but I guess now he can do it.
Hey Stein voters, how’s that protest vote working out
When they tell you who they are, believe them.
Doesn’t this ruling break a few points in the constitution? Isn’t the military’s allegiance to this document that’s currently being defaced by a corrupt criminal court? Will they just stand back and let the country slip into a monarchy?
So they ruled that Joe Biden can be a dictator!
Emergency time. Break the glass and pack the court at the earliest opportunity.
At this point we can stop calling this system of “laws” just. Period. Laws in this country were and are build to protect the wealthy class. At all costs. Any propaganda of equality, justice, all exist to placate the working class and downtrodden Americans. Politics is now the equivalent of reality TV. Where there are villains and hero’s, but they are all rich and above the laws that imprison the rest of us.
“as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.”
— statement Nixon made his lawyer argue to the district judge in *US v Nixon*
… and the Supreme Court under Warren Burger was not okay with that
Arrest Trump as an official act.