The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves right now. They did not create a system in which the president has unlimited powers, because that would make the president a monarch and exactly what the Founding Fathers opposed vehemently due to the abuse of powers in a monarchy system that they fought a war of independence against. What gaul for the Supreme Court to include the Framers concept of presidential powers and immunity as being boundless in their opinion.
In their ruling in Trump v. the United States, the Supreme Court completely erased our democracy in favor of a monarchy. The question that was posed to the court was on whether or not a president can be prosecuted in office because of former President Trump’s insurrection and his attempt to delegitimize the election he lost. What the Supreme Court has created in their decision now gives the president blanket immunity for anything they do in office as long as it is in official capacity. The president can do anything they want and not face charges. This allows the president to completely forego all laws, human rights, and the Constitution. A president can now do whatever they want.
A president can stay in office indefinitely.
A president can kill anyone.
A president can do x, y, and z all together repeatedly and no one can hold them accountable.
A president has absolute power in the US now.
This is unabated fascism.
Welcome to fascism everyone. We live here now.
Our entire governmental system and power structure needs to be redesigned and restructured because the supposed checks and balances meant to counter such fascist actions has corroded and is now broken completely.
So many people are advocating for Biden to add new appointees to the court. No, they all have to go. The Supreme Court needs appropriate checks and balances in place like much shorter term limits at 5 years, include multiple parties beyond Democrats and Republicans, and the vote should be put to all Americans and not congress to elect a justice.
If our system was an actual democracy, all Americans would be voting on the legislation that congress votes on. We should be making the decisions for us because elected officials have proven for hundreds of years that they are oppressors and highly corruptible. If our system was restructured for Americans to vote on legislation, then this issue with the Supreme Court would not even occur because Americans would be voting on justices and not congress who blocks possible justices along party lines. There would have to be changes to the nominating process of justices so that all parties can be represented and that includes all third parties in order to fully represent America’s population. Including third parties will also be a natural check and balance between Democrats and Republicans that is desperately needed.
We are under a fascist and oppressive system. We have to change this. We have so many battles we need to fight in order to be free because we have all collectively chosen complacency and giving into fear. Those fears are realized now because we wanted to believe the promises that US elected officials have made, but because we did not push them for the truth, they have chosen to run with our starry eyed optimism that they were being honest and kept promises.
Congress does not have our best interest at heart.
The judiciary does not have our best interest at heart.
The president does not have our best interest at heart.
We have to change our entire governmental system or we will further plummet into the abyss of oppression. We are free falling together into a deeper oppressive state.
Do not listen to any pundits claiming that a president would not abuse this immunity. Presidents do kill people and commit crimes while in office and they are already not charged for those crimes. All living presidents should be locked up in The Hague if there is any justice in this world for the war crimes they commit. So what makes this ruling so awful if this is the case already? Because the Supreme Court gave presidents the ability to do anything if it is in official capacity, and that includes staying in power and openly killing opponents. Presidents have term limits and some boundaries written into the Constitution but the Supreme Court destroyed those boundaries so that literally anything is acceptable.
We have to fight for change.
Never give up your rights.
If we don’t take action to stop this continued power grab, we will lose all of our rights. That is the goal of fascism.
May the whole world be free.
Strike
Protest
Disrupt everything
BE UNGOVERNABLE
Never give up your rights
Vote 3rd party
Demand sanctions and embargoes for Israel, US, UK, Germany, France, Australia, RSF, UAE, Russia, SAF, M23, and Rwanda.
Please extend your energy to other countries and people facing atrocities and genocide in Palestine, Sudan, DRC, Haiti, West Papua, the Rohingyas, Armenians, and the Uyghurs.
Articles for reference. Please read and share.
The US Supreme Court: Syllabus TRUMP v. UNITED STATES
The New York Times: Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Escalates Long Rise of Presidential Power
The Washington Post: Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling poses risk for democracy, experts say
The Nation: The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially