No one was above the law in the United States. Now, the President is.
Today, the Supreme Court decided in a decision 6–3 that the president of the United States has immunity for crimes (yes, crimes) committed while in office as official acts. Don’t you believe? Click here for the full text of the ruling. After today, one person is above the law, the president. He or she has presumptive immunity for official acts committed while serving his or her term. The immunity does not apply to personal, unofficial acts. The ruling also does not allow evidence to be used if connected to an official act of the president. It has immediate expected consequences: his insurrection case was sent back to the lower courts to define if any of the charges against Trump were official acts or not, and so was delayed the sentencing of his hush money 34-counts conviction (his attorneys want any evidence that can be classified as “official acts” removed from the records). This ruling is changing this country at its core values, at its most deep democratic values. The Rule of Law applies to every American, but the person ruling the country.
It is a fat payback from those three appointed by Trump to their lifetime seats in the Supreme Court. Two of them have their skeletons in their closets. The woman is a religious fundamentalist who probably would appreciate transforming this country into a Gilead as in The Handmaid’s…
