A supremely compromised and corrupt partisan court rules on immunity with impunity

When the president does it that means it is not illegal?

On July 1st the United States Supremely Compromised and Corrupt Partisan Court, after delaying a ruling to postpone Trump’s trial until he could pardon himself, handed down Trump v United States, its “Immunity with Impunity” Ruling, which placed American presidents above Kings, above the law and in a protected sanctified class somewhere between Televangelists and Supreme Court Justices.

Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Roberts and Barrett ordained the president to occupy a magical branch of government with powers even greater than the powers of their wealthy donors and patrons, greater than Fox News, the Koch brothers, Tucker Carlson or anyone else, even including Simba from the Lion King.

The court’s foot dragging delay guaranteed the donors who purchased the Court that their piglet Donald Trump would face the electorate in 2024 without first having to face a jury of his peers charged with determining whether he was guilty of fibbing, plagiarizing Hitler and trying to overthrow the 2020 election. Well played, MAGA-nauts.

With three memorable rulings the Trump Court took away from women a fundamental right to choice, the ability of the Federal Government to enforce any regulations and gave Trump free reign to rule America like an unchained murderous Banana Republic dictator.

Thomas Paine, one of America’s favorite secular pains in the ass, urged his fellow revolutionaries to write a constitution that would prevent the rise of a dictator “who, laying hold of popular disquietudes (exciting his base), may collect together the desperate and the discontented (the Proud Boys and the deplorables) …and sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge (As laid out in the ‘Project 2024’ agenda)”.

The Project 2024 Agenda calls to mind the cliche noting any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a man to build one. With Project 2024 the extreme right has found in Donald J Trump its jackass. For Trump is ideally suited for the task of kicking down the federal government refined by Lincoln, forged by Teddy Roosevelt, built by FDR and made integral to our lives by LBJ.

Some of us learned there are three branches of government. Some did not.

Some of us learned the three branches of government are cleverly balanced with each branch being subject to the other branch’s ability to counter its power. Some did not.

The radical supremely compromised Court’s “Immunity With Impunity” Ruling, suggests the MAGA Republican Party believes an unchained, unlimited and unbound chief executive will make America work like never before, believe you me, as Trump might say.

Their anti-American ruling offers irrefutable evidence they do not revere the founder’s system of checks and balances. They only revere checks from donors.

From 2019

The magical Republican mindset that asserts reality and truth are fluid infects the illogic of Justice Roberts who pretends that granting lifelong immunity from accountability to the nation’s criminal laws is not putting the president “above the law”.  And we’ll all also pretend Clarence T accepting yacht and private jet trips from billionaire right-wing loon Harlan Crowe is not quid pro quo bribery. And let us pretend this is not a reversal of the foundational promise of the Magna Carta, signed by King John at the point of a number of swords in 1215, asserting that no king was above the law. And let us pretend the erudite Chief Justice’s argument is not sophistry laden with horseshit. It is merely a think tank script written to give the mobster who who would be King the scepter and crown he’s dreamt of since he could walk and lie.

From 2023

First, thanks to this Court’s ruling on abortion, Arizonans woke up in 1864. Now with this immunity ruling we’re waking up before the 12th century in an even darker age when no monarch’s authority could be questioned and kings were judges and juries accountable to no greater mortal judge. With no man their equal they reigned above the reach of the law like petulant Gods made flesh.

No president in our history has needed this unusual magical dome of immunity from criminal laws. This bizarro-world court argues it’s essential for America’s imperial President to operate in the Court’s words as “an energetic, independent executive”. Independent from what? The laws of man? Accountability? In truth this despotic and degenerate Court argues it’s essential for America’s imperial President to operate as an energetic dictator, a mobster-in-chief, a tyrant, an independent executive dependent on the corporate billionaire radicals who authored and funded this dismantling of the People’s Federal government.

The Court’s fundamental argument whimpers that no president must constantly be looking over his shoulder and second-guessing himself about the possibility of future prosecutions for breaking the law because under such ethical pressure any President with the moral fiber of a gnat just could not do his job effectively. Well, they do have point, there.

Ask Trump.

Ask Nixon.

Nixon committed crimes in the Watergate scandal and years later, when reflecting on his one-man crime wave uttered a phrase that must have found its way into an Amicus Brief submitted by the Trump team. During an interview with the dogged David Frost the beleagured former President Richard Nixon blurted out, “When the president does it that means it is not illegal.”

Trump can replace the banner reading “E PLURIBUS UNUM” held by the eagle on the seal of the President of the United States with the words “QUANDO PRAESES FACIT ID QUOD SIGNIFICAT NON LICET” which means, “When the president does it that means it is not illegal.”

From 2019

The talking heads, the justices and the legal experts spent the week chattering, chattering, chattering about “hypotheticals”. What if a President Trump sent a Seal Team Six to assassinate a political opponent and declared it to be in an official executive decision?

Should Truman have been prosecuted for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan?

Should Kennedy have been prosecuted for the Bay of Pigs debacle?

Does President Biden have some official acts to consider in the remaining days of his Presidency? I think he does.

Should he send Navy Seals to Mar-a-Lago to secure all classified documents?

Order the CIA to neutralize those forces dedicated to destabilizing democracy in the northern hemisphere such as the malevolent Proud Boys, Q-Anon trolls and Russian trolls?

Should Biden order the National Guard to secure Arizona, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania during polling or order the FBI to wiretap, surveil and arrest anyone with ties to planning the January 6th insurrection including Republican members of Congress and suspend their habeas corpus rights?

Should Biden order the DOJ to wiretap, investigate and surveil every Supreme Court Justice?

I am not clouded or amused by my own delightful hypotheticals. The threat of a President Trump that is above the law is clear and real.

My response to this illegitimate Court’s ruling turning our Republic into a vassal state is rooted in the same resolve with which the Americans of Lexington and Concord responded to British Major John Pitcairn when he called out to the American Minutemen gathered in their small village commons to challenge the most powerful King on earth to,” lay down your arms, you damned rebels!”

The boys and men replied “Never,” and the shot that was heard around the world caught the attention of despots and Kings everywhere in 1774. Today, two-hundred and fifty-years later we inheritors of their hard-earned liberty have no choice but to pursue rebellion in 2024 and in November assemble at our polling places like every free and capable citizen who gathered at Lexington and Concord when they heard the call. Now is the time to once again free ourselves for all time from this would be despotic King. And his jackanape jurists.