On Thursday, the #scotus will be hearing arguments where lawyers for the criminal defendant are arguing that all former presidents are forever immune from criminal prosecution for any official acts done in office.
Failure to respect the election of a new President, is the ultimate crime against the people, who are the basis of government. The President, by constitutional design, should have no role- official or unofficial-in the determination of the people's
vote. Immunity for the crimes here alleged would be most abhorrent to the Framers, because immunity would upset the constitutional scheme and aid a President in overriding the people's power over him.
The Framers would also have been appalled that Trump, despite having left office, seeks permanent immunity. As a Federalist wrote for the Maryland ratifying convention:
It seems, however, that the president may possibly be continued for life. He may so, provided he deserve it.
The Framers did not put an immunity clause in the #Constitution.They knew how to, and they did not. They did not provide immunity to the president. Wasn't the whole point that the president was not a monarch and the president was not supposed to be above the law.
"Trump is running for president to put himself above the law, and if he wins, it will cause democratic backsliding in the United States like that in Turkey, Hungary, India, and elsewhere."
@knittingknots2 So... WHY can't we amend the #Constitution before this felon can get back into the Oval Office? Seems like NOW would be the time to do what the Founders would have done, could they have imagined a despot like #Trump.
"We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution, this shit is out of control.”
“I hope every juror is doxxed and they pay for what they have done,” another user wrote on Trump’s Truth Social platform Thursday. “May God strike them dead. We will on November 5th and they will pay!”
@Ultraverified So... WHY can't we amend the #Constitution before this felon can get back into the Oval Office? Seems like NOW would be the time to do what the Founders would have done, could they have imagined a despot like #Trump.
The TX AG is a fascist bigot, he endangers many vulnerable Texans:
TX AG Paxton repeatedly uses laws meant to protect against fraudulent or deceptive practices to target hospitals, pharma cos. & LGBTQ+ groups.
State AGs have increasingly used their powers to also pursue investigations targeting orgs. whose work conflicts with their pol views. Paxton, an R, is among the most aggressive. “He’s laying out kind of like the blueprint about how to do this-."
In an interview with Steve Bannon, Texas AG Ken Paxton, who's been under FBI investigation, called for dismantling the FBI, & described the agency as "the gestapo" & a "criminal organization." He also said what he would do on day one if he is #TFGs AG🚨.
How can this be constitutional? Our founding fathers are turning over in their graves. Early American settlers were in many cases fleeing state-sponsored religion. That’s why we have SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE written into the US constitution. #legal#constitution#religion#StateSponsoredReligion
#Trump honored the nation's heroes by defaming #EJeanCarroll—again—and attacking the various judges who have presided over his plethora of civil and criminal trials. It's insane that he also thinks he's suited to be the president. We deserve a real president who upholds the #Constitution, and respects the #ruleOfLaw.
#Trump doesn't understand the #Constitution, and he doesn't give a shit about upholding it. The government cannot discriminate, or levy punishments against people on the basis of their beliefs, or participation in #protest. The Founders believed this to be such an important principle that they made it the #FirstAmendment to Constitution. #TrumpIsAFascist, and if given the chance he would destroy our republic in favor of a dictatorial #autocracy.
Justice Sonia #Sotomayor admitted being moved 2 tears by #Supreme Court decisions that she did not agree w, reflecting on her emotional experiences in her time on Court. Sotomayor shared her emotional response to cases in speech at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, highlighting her personal struggles, dedication to her work. The 69-year-old Justice made these comments during an event honoring her at #Harvard, where she received an award for her contributions. #insurrection#constitution#democracy
The #SupremeCourt on Thurs allowed the use of a #SC congressional map that a lower court said “exiled” thousands of #BlackVoters to carve out a district safer for a #WhiteRepublican incumbent.
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel #Alito noted many predominantly #Black precincts in #Charleston were moved out of one district & into another. But “because of the tight correlation between race & partisan preferences, this fact does little to show that #race, not #politics drove the legislature’s choice,” he wrote.
The decision was a victory for #Republicans not only because it clears the way for a map that is favorable to the #GOP. It also sets a high bar for determining when a map can be considered a #RacialGerrymander, rather than a #partisan one. #SCOTUS has previously found the #Constitution bars racial #gerrymandering but that federal courts cannot police partisan gerrymandering.
"Evangelical MAGA lawyer Michael Farris (who helped lead the effort to overturn Roe v. Wade) has acknowledged in a videotaped interview from 2022 that reversing Roe was just an interim step. In fact, he and his colleagues plan to also amend the U.S. Constitution to ban abortion in all 50 states 'from conception until natural death' once they amass enough power.
"The #Constitution is unambiguous about this,” Greaves said. “You just cannot take a religious identity and cut it out from a public accommodation. It’s against the law, the school districts will lose."
A German court just decided the Federal Office for the Protection of the #Constitution (#Verfassungsschutz) can continue to classify the #AfD party as a "rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall" ("suspected case of #right-wing #extremism"). This is the 2nd-worst classification. The worst is "gesichert rechtsextrem" ("assured right-wing extremism").
The judge said "The smoke alarm of the constitution goes off.".
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar responds to PRRI's latest poll, which finds that a majority of Americans across almost all faith lines and in almosst all states support legal access to abortion. But white Christian nationalists strongly oppose this:
"As Tears for Fears warned, 'Everybody wants to rule the world.' That’s why we have to be so vigilant in monitoring every group’s motivations."
"Christian nationalists are one of the worst possible groups to have any say in our government because they are at their core against the U.S. Constitution. They want everyone to live under Christian rule, even though there is very little consensus among Christians on what Christianity is."
For people who claim to be the ultimate champions of the #Constitution, #Republicans sure do hate the Constitution. The federal #government cannot punish or discriminate against people for their beliefs or their speech. It doesn't matter if they're #citizens or not. If they're under the jurisdiction of the #UnitedStates, they benefit from all the protections enumerated in the Constitution. This latest move is a blatant violation of the #FirstAmendment.