IN BLOW TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, SUPREME COURT’S MAGA MAJORITY RULES PRESIDENTS ARE KINGS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that offers presidents absolute immunity for “official acts,” protecting future presidents from prosecution for a range of illegal activity, including everything from accepting bribes to political assassination. Stasha Rhodes, Campaign Director of United for Democracy, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States:
“The Supreme Court’s MAGA supermajority has taken a sledgehammer to the foundational principles of our Constitution and democratic system of government. For centuries, America has built itself upon the ideal that no person is above the law. Today, Donald Trump’s compromised Court undid that most basic principle – shielding presidents from prosecution through a wholly made up idea that they have ‘absolute immunity.’
“Even for this Court, today’s ruling goes beyond the pale. This is existentially dangerous territory that the MAGA justices are taking us into. Donald Trump appointed three of the justices responsible for issuing a decision that allows for him to be held to a wildly different standard than average Americans. The justices’ corruption is so brazen that they didn’t bother to pretend that they care about the optics this time. This is what their relentless power grab looks like.
“Justice Sotomayor said it best: ‘With fear for our democracy, I dissent.’ Like Sotomayor, we – and our coalition that represents tens of millions of Americans throughout the country – dissent. We refuse to accept this string of appalling rulings as our new reality. If we needed any more evidence about how broken the Supreme Court is, and how badly it needs to be fixed, we got it today. The only way to fix the Court is to ensure we have leaders in Congress who will use their authority to reverse this damage before it is too late.”