The Supreme Cuck
John Roberts gelded himself
Having abdicated the formal, constitutional check on the Executive by declaring the officeholder personally immune from criminality, what is left in the disciplinary quivver of the Roberts Court?
The Court cannot prosecute any of the criminal actions that are taking place outside of official duties—the overt violations of federal laws prohibiting bribery, for example.
If the in-our-face payoffs were to be prosecuted, Trump’s attorneys would argue that since the payoffs of the bribes could only have been conducted in-office, the receipt of payment for services is part of those official acts. Given how badly turnt the Roberts Court has shown itself to be, we know at least two of the justices would side with the defendant and use their Opinion to expand their amended-from-the-bench constitutional “Presidential Immunity,” to include activities incidental to the office such as accepting bribes and sexually assaulting aides.
But the prosecution of the crimes relies on a Justice Department that existed in theory, and is certainly not in practice today. The Legislative branch has also willingly surrendered its check on the Executive, existing now solely for the purpose of keeping the government funded enough for the money-grab to continue.
The Roberts Court ruled the President is immune from criminality in all “official acts,” which will necessarily be determined post hoc, with the Executive receiving the presumption of duty and the burden of proof otherwise placed upon the prosecutor/petitioner for the mere chance a case may be heard. But the current Executive has compromised the Justice Department such that no petition will ever be made to the Court for any acts.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains in CECOT in El Salvador, along with dozens of other immigrants who were forcibly removed from the United States without due process, and despite court orders to not deport them and a Supreme Court order to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return, now approaching two months without any action being taken.
Worse than crickets, we had the presidents of the United States and El Salvador play stupid in front of the world. “Geez, it would be nice to have him back, but I could not possibly see how that could happen, since he’s no longer in the U.S.” “Si, Mr. President. I would send him back, but I would never send a terrorist to the United States! How dare this fake media suggest I smuggle an illegal alien across the border?”
Does John Roberts ever give a thought to what Trump or whoever may follow will do to him, once the courts are no longer deemed necessary? I wonder if Roberts understands how quickly that day is coming.
Human jurors and jurists are horribly inefficient. If you don’t believe me, then why are so many criminal cases settled before a constitutionally-guaranteed jury trial?
Jurisprudence by machine makes all those plea bargains predictable, and for the remaining, small minority—the ones that once went to trial—we’ll just feed the machine the evidence. What is and what is not admissible will be determined by a machine, too. Appeals will be limited to concerns about programming and code.
There is perhaps one lever left for the Judicial to check the Executive, but Roberts either has not figured it out, or simply has no desire to check the Executive. Refuse to hear any case where the Trump administration is the petitioner, until the Trump administration completes the facilitation of Abrego Garcia’s release and return to the United States.
The Court makes its own rules. There is nothing in the constitution requiring the Supreme Court to take cases in any particular order. Roberts could de-prioritize every case the Trump administration wants a ruling on and publicly state that nothing moves forward until the administration does the job it was ordered to complete.
But it’s not likely to happen. Far more likely is the Court will hear the administration’s petition on birthright citizenship, carve out an exception for Melania and Barron (he was her anchor baby), and whelp, wouldn’t you know it? Absolutely every immigrant can be deported without due process, and Abrego Garcia will have been legally deported after all.