Perhaps America’s greatest news story is Trump’s attempt to have the Supreme Court rule that he is immune from criminal prosecution because he was president at the time he committed the alleged crimes. Most of us view this as absurd, but let’s examine the subject more closely.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was randomly assigned to the federal criminal case accusing Donald Trump of conspiring to obstruct the 2020 election, has ruled that “presidents are not kings,” and therefore Trump had no special privilege to commit any crimes he wished with impunity.
Now, special prosecutor Jack Smith has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to make a ruling here, even though such a request “leap-frogs” the case over an appellate court.
Former federal prosecutor and legal analysts Glenn Kirscher makes a point that, IMO, explains why Trump’s assertion is, in fact, absurd: If the Supreme Court agrees with Trump, they are making the statement that they are not a co-equal branch of government as specified in the U.S. Constitution. If Trump were to be reelected, he could, if he wished, simply disband the high court.
This is the type of political criminality that defines so-called “banana republics,” i.e., their executives somehow attain absolute power, and then immediately wield that power to pound their judiciaries and legislative bodies (not to mention political opponents) into insignificance. Regardless of how conservative the nine-judge panel may be, they will not vote to set aside the Constitution so as to catapult Donald Trump to a position of leadership enjoyed by Kim Jong Un and the world’s other sociopathic dictators.
Why Trump’s Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court re: Immunity from Prosecution Will Fail
What kind of people are the celebrities in music and digital media as a whole? Not an easy question to answer.
Obviously, they’re talented. Most are well educated and many have the good looks that come from good genetics.
And yes, most of these people have the intelligence to see that Donald Trump is a criminal sociopath on target to destroy the U.S. while enriching himself beyond measure.
For every Jon Voight (see left) that are perhaps 1000 Robert Deniros, Bruce Springteens, and Leonardo Dicaprios.
But why are there any Jon Voights at all? The answer is unclear.
I once met a Princeton grad to whom I explained that a guy from my prep school in Philadelphia went to Princeton, and now is all over social media shouting, “Close the Borders!” and “English Only!”
My new acquaintance laughed hysterically, and said with a smile, “Yes, we have grads like this, perhaps one in a few thousand. What a waste of hundreds of thousands of dollars. You can get that level of education by dropping out of high school and driving a truck.”
At left we see an example of a phenomenon that seems to be happening with increasing frequency: a life-long Republican saying “enough” and refusing vote for the current version of the GOP.
I applaud people who have both:
a) the intelligence to see where a party has crossed a moral line, and is now operating as a criminal enterprise.
b) the inner courage to do this, as it is hard for most people to admit they were wrong after a lifetime of kneejerk reactions, especially on a topic of such importance.
Someone commented on the meme here: “Don’t forget your jihadi prayer group meeting.”
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