This is legally debatable, and if Trump were prosecuted for accepting a bribe, he certainly would be arguing for a different interpretation of the SCOTUS's decision.

It's sort of mind boggling that we are even discussing this.

It took a guy totally devoid of a moral compass, millions of idiots that think he should be the most powerful person on earth, an entire party so utterly corrupt that they support every horrible thing he does, and a Supreme court that thinks all of this is just fine.

they had me at slavery and genocide

it also took a democratic party supporting his campaign in 2016 cuz they wanted him to be the repub nominee

then rigging the nomination for Hillary. then again in 2020 rigging the nomination again for Biden. then in 204 nominating a clearly mentally disabled Biden, with a terrible political record

The Supreme Court just proved Richard Nixon right.

Monday’s 6-3 ruling creates an imperial presidency Nixon would have loved.

This court seems to have found a way to interpret the law and facts
here to support the concept espoused by Nixon and his top aides that
the ends justify the means and if the president does it, it is not illegal.

“The President of the United States, would afterwards be liable
to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.”
But the majority has discarded such guidance, because it does not serve their purpose here.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...xon-rcna159846

The Supreme Court has signed off on a Trump takeover of the DOJ.

Supreme Court’s sweeping decision provided a stamp of approval for
one of the most dangerous parts of Trump’s second-term agenda: payback.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...doj-rcna159968

How about when the President calls a press conference in the Rose Garden and says “In recognition of Donor X’s significant contribution, I hear by exercise my presidential discretion to officially pardon his brother”

Or “I have made the determination in my official capacity as commander in chief that my political rival is too dangerous to be left alive and must be terminated”.

edit: 25 minutes on the immunity ruling


Thoughts on this? From actual normal people not cultists please

Chevron came up over lunch with some tax lawyers and they were just like lol nothing is changing. The IRS has a lot more nukes in its arsenal to deter people from going to court.

Changes along the edges will get a lot of press and dramatically increase caseload but that’s because there are so many tax controversies in a given year, a small % increase going to court is enough to increase the caseload a lot.

Anyone have any thoughts on the Legal Eagle video posted?

He should be on the SC instead of those jokers.

It's a little overheated but it is a generally accurate description of the opinion.

That is the video u posted earlier ?

Relying on dicta from a Supreme Court concurring opinion is not normally a basis for a decision at the trial level.

Dicta being a comment, observation, or suggestion made by a judge in an opinion that is not necessary to resolve a case.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...t-reform-trump

About time …
If they loved king so much , why did they fight the loyalist so hard ?

Considering how polarized our country is now, I can't see another constitutional amendment being passed in our lifetimes unless it was regarding some massive foreign terrorist attack on the US or something similar

About time the nonsense was at least partially addressed

Will take a long time but you have to start. Then again it may be too late. Lots of uncertainty

They probably know this very well, but you have to start somewhere and you have to start the messaging.

The supreme court's decision on presidential immunity represents an enormous power grab by the court, it is basically placing itself as a power behind the throne. And due to the nature of how legal immunity works, the term "throne" in this sense is dangerously literal.

Even in a polarized environment, I suspect most US citizens would agree that the US should not have a supreme court that can hand their favorite presidents more power than king George III ever had. It renders the American Revolutionary War moot. Perhaps sometime in the future you can do something about that, if it is still possible.

Supreme Court hands rare LOSS to Trump.

I guess the question to the Missouri taxpayers is:
who authorized spending time and money to get involved in the
legal issues of a Presidential candidate (who isn't even a citizen of the state)?