Subject: SCOTUS on POTUS immunity
I cannot wait for oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Presidential immunity.

If even one conservative justice entertains the idea that the President cannot be prosecuted for acts done while in office, I would love to see the prosecutor bring up the hypothetical example of a sitting President disagreeing with SCOTUS rulings and sending in Seal team 6 to kill Supreme Court justices who rule against him. Nothing to be done about if the president is immune from the law while in office. I want the justices to face what their decision would really mean if they are willing to entertain the absurd.

Now, someone will bring up the fact that a sitting president can be impeached and that should be the way to deal with a lawbreaking president. This ignores the fact that Seal team 6 can also be used on any congressmen and Senators who are open to impeaching a sitting President. It also means that a president who is in his last few days in office can go down to the treasury department and have pallets full of 100-dollar bills shipped directly to his home. He can sell state secrets to the highest foreign bidder. He can kill whomever he wanted to. He is leaving office, might as well do whatever he wants since he cannot be prosecuted for any of it.

It is all absurd and dumb.

In a sane world with a Supreme Court that actually respected rule of law we know Trump's immunity claim doesn't even get a hearing. The Appellate Court ruling is left to stand. But even getting a hearing, in a sane world the Appellate Court ruling is upheld by a 9-0 vote***. However, while I am fairly confident the Appellate ruling will easily be upheld, I really wonder if one of the SCOTUS loonies like Thomas or Alito actually dissents. I mean dissenting from something so obvious is crazy, but it is Thomas and Alito we are talking about.


*** In a sane world, the Appellate Court ruling would be upheld by an 8-0 vote because Thomas should by any standard recuse himself from the case since he has a clear conflict of interest (his wife could realistically be called upon to testify in the trial against Trump), but we are not in a sane world and Thomas likely does not recuse himself.