Trump v. United States

“The Supreme Court’s opinion in Trump v. United States is a dangerous attack on the rule of law.”

The court’s ruling gives wide room for presidents to commit abuses previously checked by assumed restraints, particularly under federal criminal law. These abuses include:

• ordering the military to invade a foreign country and commit genocide against a minority religious group;
• ordering the military to commit major war crimes and torture against a civilian population in an enemy nation during an armed conflict;
• instructing federal officials to falsify documents required for the sale of U.S. weapons and munitions to a foreign purchaser under the Arms Export Control Act;
• sharing highly classified national security information (and making no attempt to declassify it) with a foreign leader; and
• ordering the U.S. Border Patrol to massacre hundreds of sleeping migrants camped on the U.S.-Mexico border.

It is the opinion of this blog that this rule of law could easily be used by a dictator to ruin the United States form of government, a democracy, and turn it into a dictatorship, even fascist state.   No one should be immune from prosecution for any reason!  This ruling appears to possibly be a future Republican Party tool.

Recommended Reading:

• Trump v. United States: Explaining the outrage
  https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trump-v-united-states-explaining-the-outrage/
• Supreme Court’s Radical Immunity Ruling Shields Lawbreaking Presidents and Undermines Democracy
  https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/supreme-courts-radical-immunity-ruling-shields-lawbreaking-presidents-and
  

Posted:  8-28-2024
Posted by: Score Card