Is it time for the conversation about what liberals and progressives (and those who identify as both) will do should the SCOTUS bench determine that former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for allegedly criminal acts committed while the FPOTUS was still POTUS?
I believe it is.
Nothing could be more important.
Without the reality that every American citizen is subject to the same Laws and regulations, regardless of their station in life or any public Office they might hold or have held, the idea of America as a nation of Laws and not Men, is dead.
Without a level playing field when it comes to the US legal system, whether or not we retain a semi-democracy (our presidential elections are not democratic, due to the electoral college; all other US elections are democratic in nature) will be irrelevant.
One has only to look at the 1500 to 1700 era in Europe and Colonial America for the answer. The rich bought an easy path through life for them and theirs and the vast masses lived in utter strife and lacked entirely the Right to self-determination, because a King or Queen held their & their family’s very lives in their sceptered hands.
We can’t go back to those times, and the six majority conservatives on the court now seem to think we can. It’s insane.
Who wants a serious conversation about what the Democrats and President Biden will do, should we win big in 2024, about the rogue six members of the John Roberts Court, and their apparent willingness to reject reality, decency, and the basic law of our nation, to get the ideological society they want, based on their own religious tendencies?
Especially Alito and Thomas, whose escapades have now been made public to a large extent, and who’s ability to THINK and JUDGE the actions of others, when what they’ve done, the two of them, if they’d been any other kind of Federal Judge, would have landed them in serious trouble…
from being removed from their Bench, to disbarment to criminal prosecution for violation of financial disclosure laws.
Yes, the election is 11 months away, but I believe, since we’re going to get a real look quite soon, as to how that Court views the Right of Americans to have faith that no one is above the Law; that it is time to open the conversation.
I fear deeply that their view is that it matters who you are and who you were, whether or not you can be prosecuted for criminal actions.
A finding which will rip a rift in America as deep as the one dug by Confederates firing on Fort Sumpter in April, 1861.