The high court has a week packed with blockbuster arguments, including Donald Trump's claim that he's immune from prosecution.
Most notably, the high court will weigh if and when a former president can claim criminal immunity for acts committed while in office as Trump, who is currently on trial for allegedly concealing hush money payments to an adult film actress, fights three additional indictments over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his hoarding of classified documents.”
Trump’s appeal is set to come before the justices on Thursday.
From the outside, the US increasingly looks like an autocracy lead by those "judges" in the supreme court that apparently can not be touched in any way and somehow get to decide just about everything.
This is also how it looks and feels from the inside. Biden better step up and use his “absolute presidential immunity” to save America if it comes to that.
The thing is, the Supreme Court has no means of enforcing it's judgements. If enough of the people believe the Court is no longer legitimate then their judgements will cease to hold weight. If we ever reach that point then the country as we know it will likely be unable to recover.
Yep, if that happens, the judiciary breaks down. If I do not need to respect the judgement of the supreme Court, why do I need.to respect the judgement of any court?
If this takes root among law enforcement (this seems to have already started big time) and among the general public, public order becomes impossible to maintain.
The worst part is that they ALLOW Trump to keep moving the goalposts. First it was "the President is completely immune from prosecution", then it was "anyone who's been President is immune from prosecution for anything they do while in office", now it's "well they're not completely immune, they just have to be impeached and convicted first".
If they rule a president isn’t culpable then they basically have determined the law doesn’t apply to the president. So he’s not breaking any laws s at that point.