They did it. The U.S. Supreme Court handed a massive victory to former President Donald Trump in this so-called “immunity” case, and it will probably take a year or more before there’s even a chance he’ll be held to trial for trying to overthrow the 2020 election and, thus, the government of the United States.

As feared, the six Republicans on the court essentially threw Trump’s sedition case back to the lower court (with caveats) where there will be numerous decisions to make—which are all further appealable, resetting the case so Trump can drag things out for another year or more—about whether the crimes he’s committed are “official” or “private/personal” acts.

But that’s not the worst of it. They also turned Trump or any future fascist president into our first American king or führer.

Unless Congress acts quickly to overturn this obscene 6-3 decision—which won’t happen so long as Republicans control the House—democracy in America has been wounded, perhaps fatally, and the president has been made into a dictator, should he or she choose to behave that way.

Unless Congress acts quickly to overturn this obscene 6-3 decision—which won’t happen so long as Republicans control the House—democracy in America has been wounded, perhaps fatally, and the president has been made into a dictator, should he or she choose to behave that way.

And, of course, no matter what little fig leaves exist in this decision, if he’s elected this fall, he’ll appoint a corrupt attorney general, who’ll make Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election all go away immediately.

Chief Justice John Roberts went so far as to say in this corrupt decision that Trump’s speech exhorting people to attack the Capitol and try to hang Vice President Mike Pence, and his failure to bring in the National Guard or ask his rabid followers to back off, are part of his “official responsibilities.”

Speaking to Trump’s calling his rioters to overthrow the election, Chief Justice Roberts bizarrely writes that: “[M]ost of a president’s public communications are likely to fall comfortably........

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