It’s sunny, still chilly but I am feeling much, much better. I think allowing myself rest for the last couple of days really did the trick. Still a little bit sneezy but very manageable.
What isn’t manageable is the fact that SCOTUS is hearing arguments that trump should be able to throw a coup if he wants, or at least that’s what the bits of argument we’ve seen boil down to. Right now they are determining whether he has “immunity” from prosecution for criminal acts while president.
I think the issue is limited to his actual time in office but I’m not exactly sure.
But that is one of the most outlandish things to normalize in a sea of normalizing the unthinkable. If a president is immune from all criminality while in office, what is to stop Pres. Biden from giving trump the Navalny treatment right now? What is to stop Pres. Biden from jailing all the conservative SCOTUS Justices the minute the ruling comes down?
Essentially it would be a granting of unlimited power to the person with the most power in the United States. How can anyone seriously consider that to be a possible interpretation of the Constitution?
Let alone handing that power to someone who has already said if he gets it again he will use it for revenge. None of us thinks Pres. Biden would actually do the things I just listed but trump has said he would be a dictator on day one, and would use the office for revenge.
Remember when an appellate court asked if immunity meant trump could use Seal Team 6 to assassinate a rival? And trump’s lawyer gave that a thumbs up?
Do you think trump wouldn’t? Because I think he’d make good on his promise to shoot someone on 5th Avenue.
This is ridiculous, and that the Court is giving it any consideration is equally ridiculous. So should SCOTUS say sitting president is immune, or worse, a president, no matter whether sitting or not, has “absolute immunity,” I think that would have to be put to the test. Because if it applies to trump, it applies to everyone.
And he’s not in the White House.
Hopefully he’ll never see it again, but that doesn’t mean someone as despicable, as self-serving, as evil won’t get there some day.
Possibly not the most uplifting post, but reality is reality. I hope you have a good Thursday regardless.