Supreme Court Rules For Donald Trump On Criminal Immunity

What Comes Next?

I appeared on Gray TV to discuss the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Former President Donald Trump on his claim of immunity from criminal prosecution. Short answer, any trial in DC, Florida or Georgia is likely years away, if at all possible.

I believe that today’s decision is likely to go down in history as one of the worst things that the Supreme Court has ever done, ranking alongside the Dred Scott decision (slavery) and Plessy v. Ferguson (segregation). It was a lawless exercise of pure partisan power written by Chief Justice Roberts, who sold himself to the American public at his confirmation hearings as a non-partisan “umpire” who merely “calls balls & strikes” as he seems them, without allegiance to any team.

Despite Chief Justice Roberts’ protestations, this decision does put every President and Former President “above the law”, in ways that threaten the survival of the Republic.

It turns out that Donald Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it. According to today’s decision by Chief Justice Roberts, if Donald Trump (while President) ordered the military to massacre protestors in front of Trump Tower, it would be an “official action” and part of his “core powers” for which he could not be prosecuted, even if he admitted that he did it simply because he did not like the way the protestors looked.