Trump Uses Supreme Court Immunity Ruling to Claim “Unrestricted Power”

https://newrepublic.com/post/191619/trump-supreme-court-immunity-unrestricted-power

45 comments

  1. Yeah that’s why they’re not acting like they might have to answer to voters. Because they won’t. Trump could suspend elections and it doesn’t matter. Judges could order him to stop and he’d disregard them. His DOJ won’t investigate him or his cronies, he’s demonstrated his contempt for Congress and laws. This isn’t an administration, it’s a permanent irrevocable regime. I hope you all are ready for the rest of our lives

  2. He’s kind of right. They said everything POTUS does is an official act, and he can’t be charged for official acts, and if we want a particular action litigated it has to go through lower courts first to determine if it was an official action or not. At this point Trump will have died from old age before any accountability can be put on him.

  4. And MAGA will continue to claim that Trump isn’t a dictator or that MAGA itself isn’t fascism.

  5. It doesn’t work like that dumpy… you aren’t acting within your “official acts”, it’s outside your executive power and goes around article 1. I don’t have confidence but I hope they turn on him. Cmon scrotus, surprise us!

  6. Now he’s a dictator, we have crossed the Rubicon.

  9. NewRepublic is kind of off on the headline here. The immunity case is cited in the filing, but it’s not the basis of the argument.

    The basis of the argument is that as head of the Executive branch, the President has the sole authority on deciding how executive agencies function. Congress cannot infringe upon that separation of power by dictating limits on how the President can use that authority (such as legislating how employees of the Executive branch must be fired).

    It’s the Unitary Executive Theory they are pushing here, not immunity.

  10. Hey look, just what was predicted by anyone actually paying attention.

  11. I remember being called an alarmist all the way back in 2015

  12. A Dictator from day one…

    The Supreme Court needs to rescind (or overturn) the immunity ruling, before this country is destroyed from within.

    If they don’t, IMHO, they are complicit in everything he does, across the board.

  13. If he has unrestricted power, then so do we. That’s how lawlessness works.

  14. Tin foil hat time: Musk did help Trump win by illicit means and they are sprinting to do as much harm as they can ASAP because the truth will out eventually. By the time that happens they need to be in full control of every sector of power.

  16. The idea that women voted for a rapist and the end of abortion is truly scary as can be

  17. Well imagine that, every slippery slope presented to the court and thought in our imaginations was written off as “Dems being hysterical.” Look where we’ve landed now.

  18. This is not going to end without violence. 

    I honestly don’t see it any longer. It can’t. They’re going to grab and hold on. There won’t be elections because there’s no consequences if they don’t allow them. A president unleashed from any accountability is a dictator. 

  19. As an American, I firmly believe that it is the inalienable right of all Americans to hang kings and dictators by the neck until dead. It is our duty.

  20. Well if checks and balances aren’t working anymore does that mean we have the authority to take back our capital as US citizens?

  21. The instant that barrier between the Executive and Judicial branches is broken, IE the Executive branch just ignores the Judicial, the country is lost. The American experiment lasting 249 years, has come to an end. This isn’t hyperbole. This is reality. This is the reprise of fascism and installing a dictator.

  25. Time for the American people to show some unrestricted power.

  26. Maybe the Democrats can just dogpile on him during the State of the Union and get a few punches in? I mean, what else is there?

  28. Saw this coming a mile away.

    Really wish Biden would’ve just done something with this ruling himself.

  29. There’s a reason why the descenting opinions in Trump v US were basically just eulogizing the United States. They knew that the writing was on the wall from this point forward

  30. Exactly what every sane person knew would happen if he won. He knows he could do anything because there will be zero pushback by republicans and the Supreme Court.

  31. Oh no, who could have predicted… America has hurt itself in confusion.

  32. This is really fascinating, and terrifying. They’re admitting that what they are doing is illegal, and are claiming they are simply immune from prosecution.

  33. Remember when people thought we were overreacting in 2016?

  34. Waiting for the r/LeopardsAteMyFace post once he “purges” the Supreme Court.

    Did they ever stop to think that if they rule that a President can do *anything* as an “official act” and it won’t be illegal, that maybe, just maybe, it might mean that coming after them would be legal?

  35. Slow clap to the Supreme Court. You’ve created a monster.

  36. He wants to be a fascist dictator so badly. Let’s listen to Thomas Jefferson who said:

    *When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.*

    Start getting ready because this story doesn’t end without righteous rebellion against tyranny. We will either continue ruling ourselves and determining our own destiny, or we will succumb to a monstrous tyrant, and the authoritarian nightmare he brings with him.

  38. So he lied about not being a dictator?? Funny how fast MAGA was proven complicit in the lies

  39. Heritage foundation was led by Leonard Leo for a long time. They recruited judges from the federalist society. All of them right wing and intent on creating an America where male white christians are afforded more rights than other genders, races and religions. More than half of the judges on the Supreme Court are from the heritage foundation. The same heritage foundation that created project 2025. If you’re looking for a favorable result, look somewhere else. There are avenues to stop this but they are not going to happen through the supreme court. Take to the streets. Stop consuming. Don’t support the people that are doing this. Make life difficult for them.

  40. If scous agrees then no law applies. He can fire members of the sc, governors, take over states, nothing is off limits. Cancel elections… over ride the constitution and make his own.

  41. Now that actual tyranny has come to the us. The guys who needed Guns to defend against it, are supporting it. Life is so weird.

  42. #WhoSawThatOneComing

    FFS, if the arguing immunity from criminal prosecution while in office didn’t tip you off, you need more exposure to villain origin stories.

  43. Americans voted for a dictator. At least you didn’t have a woman president I guess. Congratulations.

  44. The real question is, why didn’t Biden use this gift? He could have solved so much. But decided not to.
    I’ll give you the answer as well: because despite the democrat rhetoric the past year, they didn’t really believe things would get this bad, and certainly not this quickly.

  45. Holy fucking shit. This is actually the death of the american democracy.

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