The US supreme court utterly distorted the true threat to American democracy | Lawrence Douglas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Take, for example, the court's conclusion that because the constitution vests the president with the "core" duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed", Trump enjoys absolute immunity for his dealings with the justice department - including his appeal to justice department officials, after Biden's 2020 victory, to "just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me ...
34% : The court could have limited itself to the matter at hand - whether Trump enjoyed immunity for his alleged acts of election interference as charged in the federal indictment.
34% : In his presidential campaign, Trump has been remarkably vague about his policy goals, but has openly and repeatedly declared his intention to use the justice department as a tool of personal vengeance.
32% : Let's also bear in mind that hours before the court handed down its tardy decision, Trump reposted messages on Truth Social, his personal social media platform, calling for the prosecution and imprisonment of his declared political enemies.
28% : Three members of the six-person majority owe their positions on the court directly to Trump and they are not even the justices most obviously sympathetic to the former president.
20% : And while I have a hard time believing - call me naive - that Chief Justice Roberts isn't keenly aware of the dangers posed by Trump, his majority opinion is astonishingly purblind to those dangers.

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