Darkness Falls Across the Land

The Supreme Court handed down its ruling on presidential immunity.

It's not good.

The court's conservative majority pretty much said that a President is immune from prosecution of official acts but not from personal or unofficial acts.  Good news on the surface, until you dig below the crust and realize that Donald Trump did so many dastardly things in the guise of official business when in the White House that the indictments against him still pending - especially the federal cases being prosecuted by Jack Smith - have been gutted to the point where Smith might as well pack up and go home.

With the Biden campaign hobbled by last week's debate performance and Trump actually leading in the polls (remember this is the same country that gave Richard Nixon a landslide re-election victory in 1972), We could very well be seven moths away from the second coming of the Third Reich.  With one key difference - the Weimar Republic in Germany didn't grease the wheels for Adolf Hitler before he assumed power.

Trump will likely use his power to gut the bureaucracy, fire people in federal agencies who are opposed to him, prosecute and incarcerate his opponents, and possibly execute people for treason once the definition of treason is expanded to include opposition to the Exalted Leader.

And then in February 2025 . . .

The only bright side to this ruling is that Judge Tanya Chutkan might be able to have an evidentiary hearing to determine which charges and evidence can be considered and which cannot.  (She's not likely to get it before August 5.)  As for recourse in response to this ruling . . . actually, there's very little whatsoever.   The Supreme Court ruling is the law of the land, and this decision is grounded in an interpretation of the Constitution that any law passed by Congress would likely fail to meet.  The only way to change this decision is to pack the Supreme Court or pass a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to prosecute a President for illegal acts.  Neither is likely to happen any time soon.

It looks more and more like the thousand-year Reich is to be reborn when the voters go to the polls in November 5, which is my fifty-ninth birthday.  And after everything I've said about Trump on this blog - which will be saved for all eternity in Blogger.com's server even if I delete it - I doubt I will live to see my sixtieth birthday. Unless I sell my house and high-tail it with my kittens to Toronto.

So, it makes perfect sense that this decision was handed down on Canada Day.

There's still one thing I like about the Supreme Court - the building itself.  Isn't it nice?