The Framers: *literally wrote many, many passages that you would swear on your life were prophetic visions of Donald J. Trump, and how such a figure must be guarded against at all costs*
John Roberts: surely what they wanted is for this uniquely lawless figure to be placed above the law
"...this opinion depends on an implicit belief that the only person who would act so brazenly is Trump, and that because the majority of the justices on the Court support Trump and want him to be president, he must be shielded from prosecution."
Roberts once again showing his perspicacity by claiming there’s nothing to fear from a President with virtually unbounded extralegal authority the same day Trump threatens military show trials for his political opponents.
Am I missing something? For partisan issues we are truly beyond a stable & effective legal regime in this country. The law is simply irrelevant.
If on one of the most important issue you can imagine you can invent a rationale for your side and believe precedent is irrelevant. There is no more law.
That’s sort of critical to the argument.
Justice isnt “blind”. It’s an institution to be captured for partisan gain.
I can’t think of anything more dangerous.
Strip me of my last naked naïveté. How can Fed Society support this stuff? Is there truly no one in the org that has any patriotism or self-respect of any kind?
I had a very good friend who was an ex corporate lawyer. Very good guy. But 9/11 broke him and he went from big standard conservative to full on Fed Soc stuff. He could really deny reality. It was sad.
The modern American right views political power as a way to punish their enemies and aid their allies.
So long as those things are happening, they don't care about anything else. That's why shame and evidence of hypocrisy are no longer effective. They don't matter so long as the right holds power.
Because of a different hypothetical (tit for tat prosecutions) that we could easily stop and the hypothetical that we can’t Make America Great Again if the President has to fear being bound by laws.
well you see the colonists had just experienced British monarchy and thought "why don't we have a king, but we will call him the president" and so the constitution was born
