This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance.
Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power.
A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
Trump, who tried to overthrow an election, campaigned persistently for his fellow party members to grant him absolute immunity for his misdeeds in office.
And they did. If you can't distinguish between "energy in the executive" and a constitutional crime spree, you've given up on US democracy.
SCOTUS simply would grant such broad presidential immunity if a) it was a Democratic President accused of significant wrongdoing, and b) if it was not confident of generational control of the court, which effectively gives it final say on any outcome.
If it is willing to read such broad expansive protections for the Presidency, expect it to commit to a maximalist view of unitary executive in a second Trump term, with a broad interpretation of Article II powers (goodbye civil service system, independent agency authority).
DOJ Independence: gone.
This has been a radical position that Trump has proposed, and his fellow indictees like Jeffery Clark has pushed. Roberts just said, yeah, why not. Lets make that the law.
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