“Now A King Above Law”

SCOTUS ruling yesterday

Is this what you want?

The Supreme Court finally decided on the case involving whether or not Trump is liable for actions taken while in office. This is directly relates to January 6th Insurrection, and what he did and didn’t do on that day and leading up to it. I don’t fully understand the ruling — in case you didn’t notice, I’m not a lawyer. But in my readings, it said the president is not liable for actions taken as an “offical act,” but he is liable for actions taken that are not official, i.e. a private citizen. The problem is determining what is official and not official. What this ruling says is that Donald Trump is largely immune from prosecution.

In a vote 6–3, the liberal, dissenting members of the court were strong in their disagreement with this ruling, feeling it is a “vast expansion of presidential power.” Justice Sotomayor wrote: “The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding.”

She continued, “The President is now a king above the law.”

The case is being sent down to a lower court to decide what actions on January 6th were offical and which were as a private citizen. This most surely makes it impossible for the trial brought against Trump by Jack Smith will not happen…