Abandon All Logic, Ye Who Enter
It was shocking, it was without legal precedent, it was the Supreme Court dominated by MAGA conservatives who abandoned all logic to support Trump's Hail Mary pass of "absolute executive immunity."
For three hours the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court discarded any pretense of jurisprudence and instead went down a dark rabbit hole of rightwing conspiracy theories and bizarre hypotheticals to avoid discussing the Constitution, legal precedent, or Trump's attempted coup. Michael Dreeben, speaking for the Government, correctly pointed out that "There is no immunity that is in the Constitution unless this court creates it today." Instead Justice Kavanaugh proudly stated that "I’m not concerned about the here and now" and Justice Alito declared that he didn’t want to talk about the “particular facts.”
Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)
By Dennis Aftergut
Our justice system may leave Americans with one choice
Presidents deserving some form of immunity is an argument that conservative Supreme Court Justices are apparently open to, as revealed by Donald Trump’s immunity claim Supreme Court arguments.