Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Immunity Ruling Escalates Long Rise of Presidential Power

(Dick Cheney's Unitary Executive Theory)

from NYT

The Supreme Court’s decision to bestow presidents with immunity from prosecution over official actions is an extraordinary expansion of executive power that will reverberate long after Donald J. Trump is gone.

Beyond its immediate implications for the election subversion case against Mr. Trump and the prospect that he may feel less constrained by law if he returns to power, the ruling also adds to the nearly relentless rise of presidential power since the mid-20th century.

It had seemed like a constitutional truism in recent years when more than one lower-court opinion addressing novel legal issues raised by Mr. Trump’s norm-breaking behavior observed that presidents are not kings. But suddenly, they do enjoy a kind of monarchical prerogative.

“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in an outraged dissent joined by the court’s other two liberals. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”...

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3 comments:

  1. 13 minutes.
    from april/2024
    this old dude, a clinical oncologist, makes the point at the start he was around, obviously just starting his career in the 1980's when the AIDS scam hysteria was being pumped out 24/7 by the msm, AND FAUCI OF COURSE central to it then promised AN AIDS VACCINE WITHIN 18 MONTHS!!
    Sound familiar?
    https://makismd.substack.com/p/video-oncologist-profdalgleish-warns

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    1. Goes very well with this one, long audio 2:24 long from late 2023.
      If your browser has some kind of vid/audio file save feature add-on, use it!
      Hmmmmm.....wonder what he dieded of??

      An early pioneer of pathological investigations into vaccine adverse events was Prof. Arne Burkhardt — a senior, highly accomplished pathologist from Germany. Prof. Burkhardt came out of retirement in 2021 to examine the autopsy and biopsy materials of vaccinated patients. The work of Prof. Burkhardt not only provided strong evidence of vaccine causation,
      Journalist Taylor Hudak interviewed Prof. Burkhardt in his laboratory in Reutlingen, Germany, shortly before his death in May 2023.
      https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/arne-burkhardt-interview-12-23-23/

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  2. GoverNasti overlords creating more criminals.
    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/cuny-encampment-felony-charges-could-set-a-dangerous-precedent-for-palestine-organizing/

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