So, what are we supposed to make of the SCOTUS’s immunity decision?
I didn’t watch Fox or similar spewage of bullshit—I just assumed they were celebrating and saying that this was the decision we all should have expected—the right and proper decision. The no-brainer. Anyway, all I got was the reaction of MSNBC folks and Maddow, who didn’t sugarcoat anything and reacted the way I guess I expected her to.
We indeed have two nations between the shores, one step closer to being at war. If things are indeed the way Maddow and Schiff and Totenberg described them last night, then what’s left for us who have always assumed we had at least some handle on how elected officials are supposed to behave when entrusted with the responsibilities of public office?
Maddow kept harping on what to me sounds like the most stark implication of the majority opinion—the scenario where Trump could order the death of a rival and be immune from prosecution. I can see where critics like Maddow might start to get a bit queasy over such a development.
I keep wondering how anyone—including the POTUS—can, in general, be above the law. He’s just a guy, or someday it’ll be a woman—given great power, no doubt, but not above the law. And if someone like Trump is ordained by God, then maybe we need to start questioning God’s judgment.
This can’t fly. No one is above the law. For Trump now, the law becomes irrelevant, because it apparently doesn’t apply to him in the same way it applies to the rest of the population. This just feeds his delusions, reinforces his warped views of reality.
SCOTUS has parsed it all out and come to this stunning conclusion. Or the Roberts court has just decided to join the Trump bandwagon. They can hide behind the legalese and write what sounds like a cogent argument, but it feels like they’re just offering up a convenient take on things under the guise of an eloquent-sounding opinion, using convoluted language with intent to distract and confuse.
Justice Sotomayor wrote an eloquent dissenting opinion, which cuts to the chase and I hope is prescient and on point as we venture further into this wholly rotten new day. The groundwork has been laid by a once-proud body who gave us advances in human rights and bodily autonomy. The current iteration has apparently gone rogue.
How can there not be agreement that Trump is a bad apple? He’s shredding our moral, legal and judicial hand, and everybody’s folding. Remarkable. More like a house of cards every day.
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