"Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have broad immunity, dimming chance of a pre-election Trump trial

[kane_magus]

"The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and all but ending prospects the former president could be tried before the November election."

Basically, the SCOTUS did the thing I long ago predicted that they would do, even though I was holding out faint hope that they would do the opposite of that thing and actually allow Trump to be held accountable for his crimes.

So, here is a serious, honest question: At what point, if ever, can we, as a society (or at least as a majority of a society), decide to simply ignore blatantly corrupt, asinine, assbackwards decisions from a blatantly corrupt, asinine, assbackwards, demonstrably-stacked-by-the-former-president-that-they-just-ruled-in-favor-of Supreme Court? Like, legitimately, what will it take, ultimately, to undo and repair the intentional and continuing damage this nigh-illegitimate SCOTUS is doing? Because whatever it will take, it's sure as shit not the case that the current Congress, which is just as blatantly corrupt, asinine, and assbackwards, will ever do it.

Comments

[goldpseudo]

From what I understand of the Unitedstatesian government system, I think you have to ultimately blame Congress for this one. They're the ones who didn't think y'all needed a clear law making it actually illegal for a sitting President to try overthrowing his own government. Just because there was no sane reason to believe they would ever actually need one of those over the last two and a half centuries is no excuse.

[kane_magus]

Yeah, and because the framers of the Constitution themselves also didn't think of such a thing or believe it was necessary, if anyone now ever did try to pass a law that makes it illegal for a president to attempt to overthrow the government, the Supreme Court, depending on if they're feeling particularly dumbshit (like, say, the current SCOTUS, for example), could very well just go "Welp, the Constitution doesn't say that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" and strike down such a law.