Supreme Court Grants Trump, Future Presidents a Loaded Weapon to Break the Law | ACLU excerpt: "The court grants absolute immunity against criminal prosecution for any of a president’s “core” executive acts, which the court went on to define as including any use of the Justice Department—an ostensibly and traditionally independent agency–for criminal investigation. And it grants “presumptive” immunity for any acts within the “outer perimeter of his official responsibility.” While the latter immunity is in theory rebuttable, the court set such a high standard for rebutting it that it may be effectively absolute as well."
The Assassination Hypothetical Isn’t Even the Scariest Part of the Supreme Court Immunity Ruling excerpt: "Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion holds—for the first time in U.S. history—that presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution that ordinary citizens do not. Roberts then divides presidential conduct into three, wholly new classes: exercises of “core constitutional powers,” “official act,” and “unofficial acts.” Exercises of “core” presidential powers garner “absolute immunity” from prosecution. “Official acts” are “presumptively” immune. “Unofficial acts” enjoy no immunity. No part of this structure is grounded in the text or original understanding of the Constitution. Roberts testily dismisses as unconvincing the powerful textual and founding-era evidence in Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent (laid out in even greater detail in this amicus brief, of which I am a signatory). But tellingly, he and the other five avowed originalists who signed on to the majority opinion don’t even try to construct an originalist rationale of their own."
The Assassination Hypothetical Isn’t Even the Scariest Part of the Supreme Court Immunity Ruling excerpt: "In the present case, the court applies this ruling to excise from Jack Smith’s indictment allegations that Trump asked the DOJ to pursue sham investigations into supposed election fraud in order to persuade states not to certify Joe Biden’s win and threatened to dismiss the acting attorney general if he did not go along with it. This result is bad enough, but the implications of the court’s new rule are terrifying. A president now enjoys “absolute immunity” if he orders the Justice Department to undertake a program of factually meritless investigations and prosecutions of his political enemies, even if he expressly avows that the purpose is retribution for past political opposition and a desire to hamstring his party’s opponents for the future. (Remember: DOJ officials who follow the president’s illegal orders can, under the court’s new rule, be pardoned at no legal risk to the president.)"
Chief Justice Roberts is supposedly worried about such frivolous prosecution by 'enterprising prosecutors' (who can't be trusted) potentially occurring, yet he gave such power to the president (who is supposedly trustworthy) that will supposedly stop the frivolous prosecution that he anticipates (but that historically hasn't yet occurred).
Former Argonne lab worker pleads guilty to rioting at Capitol. Ex-Argonne National Laboratory employee pleads guilty to assaulting officers during Capitol riot
PA Proud Boys member sentenced to 100 days in prison for rioting at Capitol. Pennsylvania Proud Boys member sentenced to prison for role in Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
Half of Americans still wants Trump to be president. Media outlets like the NY Times haven't called for him to step down from the campaign, although they've called for Biden to step down. Trump makes a plethora of utterly irrational jackass statements, but he says it with conviction. That's what counts.
Comedian Gallagher used to make jokes about a product called smokers toothpaste that helps reduce brown stains on teeth from smoking. Gallagher said, "If it's doing that to your teeth, think of what it's doing to your lungs! But that's the type of society we are. We only care about things that show."
Supreme Court Grants Trump, Future Presidents a Loaded Weapon to Break the Law | ACLU excerpt: "The court did hold that a president can be prosecuted for unofficial, purely private acts, a proposition even Trump did not dispute. But the court’s conception of official acts is strikingly broad. Worse, the court also held that official acts cannot even be used as evidence to support a crime committed in the president’s personal capacity, making it even more difficult for prosecutors to indict a president even for purely private criminal acts. The court purports to leave much of the work of hashing out the details in Trump’s case to lower courts. But the standards it announced will make holding any president criminally accountable extraordinarily difficult. The immediate consequence of the decision is that it sends the current federal prosecution of former President Trump for interfering in the 2020 election into disarray. True, that prosecution is not yet dead. Formally, the Supreme Court only conclusively disqualified one set of allegations — those involving Trump’s communications to the Department of Justice — from the indictment. But as a practical matter, the fact-laden inquiry in which the district court must now engage, and any appeals thereto, will take many months if not years to resolve — all before any trial can commence. In addition, President Trump has already moved to wipe out his criminal conviction in New York State."
'Originalism is a dead letter': Supreme Court majority accused of abandoning legal principles in Trump immunity ruling excerpt: "For justices who purportedly care about text, history, and tradition, this failure to engage more fully was eye-opening — and profoundly disappointing," she added. Those on the left and right critiquing the latest ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, point in part to the finding that presidents have absolute immunity for certain conduct that is core to their official duties, which they say has no basis in the Constitution."It is anti-originalist because the historical evidence is overwhelmingly on the opposite side," said Jed Shugerman, a professor at Boston University School of Law. He noted that amicus briefs filed in the case provided historical analysis that the majority opinion did not appear to wrestle with. "It is astounding how the majority opinion ignores all the evidence," he added. "It dismisses it."
'Originalism is a dead letter': Supreme Court majority accused of abandoning legal principles in Trump immunity ruling excerpt: "Aspects of the majority opinion faced strong criticism from one of the court's conservatives: Justice Amy Coney Barrett. She did not join Roberts' opinion in full, criticizing the court for preventing any evidence of a president's immunized acts from being admitted into a related criminal case. The Constitution, she noted, specifically bars the president from accepting bribes, but under Monday's ruling it would be difficult to prosecute him for it if evidence of his conduct could not be admitted."
'Originalism is a dead letter': Supreme Court majority accused of abandoning legal principles in Trump immunity ruling excerpt: "To Michael Smith a professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law who has written a law review article called "Is Originalism Bullshit?," the immunity decision shares some of the same characteristics as the Colorado ballot decision, with the outcome being more important than the reasoning. “I do see it as fitting a similar theme of adopting an interpretive method that is better suited to accomplish a particular result," he said."
School board member sentenced to twelve days in jail for rioting at Capitol. Virginia school board member sentenced in Capitol riot case | wusa9.com
AK man arrested in connection to Capitol riot. Arkansas man arrested by FBI for his involvement in Jan. 6 Capitol riot; seen deploying fire extinguisher at police
Camden charged with felonies in connection to Capitol riot. Tontitown man arrested for role in Jan. 6th Capitol riot | 5newsonline.com
Trump is already pushing interest rates up excerpt: "If Trump did win, and rates rose the way investors seem to expect, it would likely put Trump on wartime footing from Day One. Trump has a long history of bashing the Fed and its chair, Powell, for not pushing rates lower. During Trump’s first term, he could argue that there was little risk of inflation, so why not lower rates? Inflationary pressures are much stronger now, and that won’t change if Biden leaves office, since much of the pressure comes from outside the United States. If Trump managed to jawbone the Fed into lowering rates anyway, the result would most likely be higher inflation — and the same ire from voters that has driven Biden’s popularity underwater. Voters may not see that until 2025, but it’s already a big blip on the market’s radar."
Add another rioter to the Tampa club. Tampa man sentenced to three years in prison for rioting at Capitol. Florida man gets 3 years in prison for Jan. 6 assault on police | wusa9.com
Maine Dem predicts Trump will win election: 'Democracy will be just fine' by JACKSON WALKER | The National Desk Wed, July 3rd 2024 at 9:43 AM https://abc3340.com/news/nation-wor...dential-election-politics-democrat-republican excerpt: "This election is about the economy, not democracy,” Rep. Golden wrote. “And when it comes to our economy, our Congress matters far more than who occupies the White House.”
Trump hires fake elector to be his campaign advisor in NV. Trump Appoints Fake Elector As Campaign Advisor In Nevada, A State He Still Claims He Won In 2020