The Court has purported to strip us of all legal recourse for crimes committed by the most powerful person in the nation. Each and every one of us is now, effectively, at the mercy of an autocrat, who could order our death if he simply made the pretense of connecting it to his official duties.
Criminal law probably functioned as some kind of deterrent on abuses of presidential power, and that deterrent is now gone. But even if that weren't true, today's ruling would be an appalling display of contempt for the American people and for the basic principles on which this country rests.
Judgement delivered ironically on the first day of the month still — after 2,000 years — named for the dictator that began the terminal process of converting the Roman Republic into a hereditary Empire.
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On the 1st day of the month named after dictator-for-life Julius Caesar (who ended the Roman Republic in favor of hereditary takeover by his nephew, Octavian Augustus), the Republic of the United States transitioned into the Kingdom of the United States.
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