I didn't miss all this bedwetting while I was off the board in June.
First of all, the USSC basically kicked it back to the lower courts, stating the obvious:
That any president has some immunity for official acts. No kidding. A rookie police officer has some immunity for official acts.
The cop that freaked out and killed an exterminator for pulling up his pants was granted immunity because - apparently - his training had taught him to shoot with an AR-15 an unarmed man who reaches for his pants.
Now it's up to the lower courts -
who have been unanimously against Trump in previous rulings on immunity - to determine if the acts for which he is being criminally prosecuted were official or personal. Long before those cases get back to the USSC, president Trump will have pardoned himself, so they will be moot.
To address some of the bedwetting:
Trump is now above the law!
No. As stated above, many people, especially people in government, have immunity for certain offcial acts. Ironic that most of the people claiming to be offended by Trump being "above the law" are cheerleaders of bigger, more powerful, and more intrusive government.
Why, Biden could assasinate Trump and get away with it!
Of course he could,
if the only drawback to assasinating Trump would be criminal prosecution. Trump assasinated that Salami guy and that Bag-Daddy guy. Why wasn't he prosecuted as soon as he left office? Because those are the kind of assasinations that go unprosecuted. If Biden assasinated Trump, and the Biden DEI appointees on the lower federal courts ruled it was an official act, then he would lose the election in a landslide and be subject to wrongful death suits that would get all of his Chinese money.
So, no. He would not "get away with it,"
Now, no president can be impeached, because impeachments are only for "high crimes and misdemeanors!"
Oy. It doesn't say that the president has to be convicted of a high crime and misdemeanor in the regular criminal system to be impeached. We've had one impeachment of Johnson, one impeachment that Nixon dodged only by resigning, one of Clinton, and I lost track of how many of Trump, and none of them at the time had been convicted of any high crime or misdemeanor.
Common sense tells us that the founders included impeachment, because they expected it to be very difficult, if not nearly impossible, to prosecute a sitting president.
The sad thing is that these IMDB liberal Democrats who are posting such melodramatic interpretations of the ruling are actually the cream of the crop. These are the guys - with some exceptions - who are at least willing to read a differing opinion, and debate people who disagree with them, rather than try to set fire to them.
