SCOTUS - Saving the Country

The sky is not falling

SCOTUS has ruled in Trump v The United States that Presidents may have immunity from criminal prosecution depending on their act:

• no immunity for unofficial acts

• presumptive immunity for official acts

• absolute immunity for acts within Constitutional authority

This is a good ruling.

The founders recognized that there was a need for three branches and each branch had to have its independence and ability to function vigorously. This ruling, similar to where the Court held that there immunity in civil cases, where there is a lower standard of proof, because it is critical to the functioning of the Nation, protects this Country from being destroyed by the politicization of justice.

And nothing stops a President from being impeached and removed from office through the Constitutional process.

This ruling should not have been unexpected. In Nixon v. Fitzgerald 1982, SCOTUS ruled that"the President's absolute immunity [from civil suits] extends to all acts within the 'outer perimeter' of his duties of office." Civil suits have less severe penalties than criminal suites. Isn’t it common sense that if you’re protected from things with less severe penalties, you would have some protection from things with more severe penalties?

Further note that this ruling was required because for the first time ever a president was being charged criminally. And he was being charged criminally with a highly suspect politicize process that had new legal theories, one of which has just been thrown out by the Supreme Court.

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