The Supreme Court’s immunity decision makes a mockery of the Fourth of July

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-04/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court-samuel-alito-sonia-sotomayor

38 comments

  1. The rule of law is dead! Bring on the Trump torture chambers!

  2. No man is above the law! This is the United States!.

    *except the president who shall not be questioned!

    What an absurd rulling. You can now stage a coup with the help of government officials and there is nothing anyone can do about it. It’s actually better to stage a coup with government officials because that would be official acts which cannot be questioned.

  3. The irony of celebrating our independence while an authoritarian dictator awaits the country….

  4. Just waiting for the supercut of Trump with his shit eating grin set to “It’s Good to be King” from the Lion King.

  5. I feel pretty dumb going out to celebrate it now to be honest, but the kids like fireworks and I don’t want to burden them with this at their age.

  6. I’ll probably never celebrate this “holiday” again.

  7. I mean to be fair they could write volumes on things America has done that make a mockery of the Fourth of July so really they’re just doing their American duty to add to that list.

  11. July 4th was a a day to celebrate our independence. Next year it becomes a day to memorialize our losing it.

  13. I literally just told my wife 30 seconds before coming across this article that after what the SC did, the entire day feels like a bad fucking joke.

  14. That may be true. But they dont care and there is nothing you can do about it.

  15. Am I the only one wondering what and when the hell Democrats are planning to take advantage of this ruling? Or am I crazy?

  16. Biden needs to officially executive order Donnie’s permanent disappearance!ASAP!

  17. Yep we should all celebrate the freedom of the few and the oppression of the many.

  19. I told my husband, even before the Supreme Court ruling, that I didn’t feel like being patriotic and celebrating the 4th because of the political situation in this country. The ruling just makes it worse!

  20. Very true. I felt a sadness last night at our local 4th celebration. I wondered how many of these people who appeared to love this country so much, will be voting for a man hell bent on destroying it, simply because they believe the lies from Trump and Fox.

  22. I went to see the parade in a local town, and there was big truck with Trump flags. I had ISIS vibe. 

  23. That’s why we had tacos instead of a cookout today.

    Viva La Mexico.

  24. It’s really ruined the “vibe” for independence celebrations when our president is a king, now.

  25. Biden should use the military to arrest the Supreme Court justices and try them for traitorous acts against the country. It would be an official act to defend the constitution. Yes, I am being extreme but no more than them.

  26. Well at least someone’s considering doing something. Hell, if I worked there I would have went over to the court house and slapped the shit out of them

  27. Seems like the SC made themselves king

    Not the president. They can basically dictate what someone can get away wiith or not.

    They could just as easily strip trump of his rights as anyone else. Once trump runs his usefulness, we will see that.

    The SC is a board of kings now. Just as they always wanted.

  28. America died July 1, 2024. donald fucking trump did this with his corrupt appointments and Russian pandering and treasonous sharing/selling of classified information.
    I won’t be celebrating. I’m grieving

  29.  A founding principle of our country is; That no person be above the law and that we are not a land of kings.

     By defying that they have broken not just a tradition or norm, but the 14th amendment of the constitution which codified it into the document of our nation. 

    They are violating the constitution and  Title 18 of the U.S. Code –

    18 U.S.C. § 241 – Conspiracy Against Rights: This statute makes it a crime for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to them by the Constitution or laws of the United States.

    18 U.S.C. § 242 – Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law: This statute makes it a crime for anyone acting under color of law (such as a government official) to willfully deprive a person of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States

  31. I’m not sure why liberals are upset. Don’t supreme Court rulings take effect immediately???

    Wouldn’t it be considered official duty to capture and kill someone who has engaged and continues to engage in treason.

    Problem, meet solution.

  32. I know there’s nothing to celebrate much today folks, let’s use this day to remember what it is that America and we as Americans stand for and find the resolve to defend our rights. Today is a day of mourning

  33. It really is a slap in the face of everything the 4th means. The timings is truly strange.

  34. I’m not American. After I learned that the president can simply call a state of emergency and get absolute control, I thought the US to be a dictatorship. This ruling seems to confirm my belief.

    Can an American please explain to me how the US isn’t an elective dictatorship?

  35. Might be the last Independence Day we have. 250 years almost, we had a good run. Guess I’ll see you guys at the state mandated prayer meeting next year. Under his eye.

  36. Dick Nixon is the Patron Saint of Independence Day 2024. No way around it. Today we celebrate Watergate not being a crime 🤷‍♂️

  37. Turns out we have royalists on the supreme Court of a country that’s, uhh, literally founded upon giving the finger to royalty

    Irony is fucking dead

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