All the most terrible warnings about the Supreme Court

In a publication on social networks that is read as a rescue note, President Donald Trump made all warnings about the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of presidential immunity of 2024 came true.

Written as a message for Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump’s publication on September 20 criticized “PAM” for being “Allow, no action” about the criminal references promoted by New York Attorney General Letitia James and the Senator of California Adam Schiff, both who investigated him, to Charges of Froce Mortoc Losios de los Democrats.

“All are guilty like hell, but nothing will be done,” Trump wrote.

He also attacked his own American prosecutor for the East district of Virginia, Eric Siebert, who renounced under pressure On September 19, and pressed the appointment of his former personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan.

“We cannot delay anymore, it is killing our reputation and credibility. They accused me twice and accused me (5 times), more about nothing. Justice should be served, now!” Trump said.

It is even this president, a terrifying public admission that Trump is using the levers of power against his political enemies and those who believe they have harmed him in the past. But it is not at all unexpected.

This is exactly the type of abuse of remuneration power that worried the liberal judges dissident in the Trump v. American casewhich Granted Trump, and other presidents, immunity of criminal prosecution for official acts taken within the “central powers” of the president.

The President has the authority to tell the Department of Justice to do what he wants, according to the majority decision written by the president of the Supreme Court John Roberts, even asking for fraudulent prosecutions or, as the prosecutors claimed in the accusation against Trump for his attempt to steal the 2020 elections, investigations simulated in compensated accusations of electoral fraud.

“The accusations of the accusation that the investigations requested were Shams or proposals for an inappropriate purpose not to disable the president of exclusive authority on the investigation functions and prosecutors of the Department of Justice and its officials,” Roberts wrote.

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The concession of power under the opinion of Roberts leaves almost any presidential action not revisable by the courts and unwavering as a crime. That expands the executive branch “Beyond recognition,” Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal, in dissent, wrote.

“Under that opinion of the central powers, even manufacture evidence and insist that the department use it in a criminal case could be covered,” Sotomayor wrote.

And that is exactly what is happening today. Nor has it been particularly restricted.

The head of the Federal Housing Finance Authority, Bill Ablicte, designated by Trump, has used the power of his office to obtain mortgage records for the Democrats considered enemies of Trump and probably said erroneously, that they committed mortgage fraud and sent them to the Department of Justice for prosecution.

These accusations depend on alleged documents listed by secondary houses as a “main residence”, with little evidence that these are more than common presentation errors. A person needs to know a false form to be guilty of fraud. In Other documents presented by James’s lawyersNew York Attorney General declared that Virginia’s house bought with his daughter “will not be my main residence.”

Similarly, the governor of the Federal Reserve, Lisa Cook, whom About accused of mortgage fraud for listing a secondary house in Atlanta as the main residence, presented documents of alternative loans in the court that said: “Use of property: holiday house”. Atlanta property records also reveal that Cook did not receive any tax credit for property that serves as the main residence, according to NBC News.

It is not a surprise, then, that Siebert, the American prosecutor of the district of Virginia, where my home from James, would not bring charges. This is a political motivation prosecution that lacks the necessary facts to charge someone with a crime.

Trump made it clear in his publication, justifying the need to accuse James because, “they accused me twice and accused me (5 times), about nothing. (James successfully presented civil charges against Trump’s businesses for fraud).

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Since then, Trump has installed Haligan, who has no prosecuting experience and more recently worked as a White House assistant censoring the mentions of the slavery of Smithsonian museums, such as the United States prosecutor for the East district of Virginia, and gave him a clear mandate to prosecute James and other political enemies of Trump. That includes an investigation by former FBI director James Comey, accused of giving false testimony to Congress in 2020 about leaks that may or may not have authorized.

It also works in the other direction. Just when the Supreme Court said that the President can order the Department of Justice to initiate a simulated prosecution in political opponents, the president can also increase investigations in political allies.

At some point after the inauguration of Trump, the Department of Justice increased a criminal investigation into the alleged acceptance of the White House Advisor, Tom Homan, of a bribe of $ 50,000 of undercover agents of the FBI in exchange for promising to help obtain federal contracts for immigration application. The White House affirms that homan did “Nothing bad. “In an interview with News, Homan did not denied the facts of this case. which indicates“I did nothing criminal. I did nothing illegal.”

This type of fiscal favoritism can also be exercised as a form of extortion to create allies, the best example is the Democratic Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams. In February, Trump’s administration suddenly fallen corruption charges Presented against Adams in 2024, while Adams promised to work with the administration in its mass deportation policy. This led to multiple furious resignations of prosecutors, all Republicans, who refused to put their names on legal presentations in the case.

This extreme abuse of power is the direct result of the tremendously expansive vision of the Supreme Court over presidential power.

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There are few or no limit on the Court’s opinion on presidential power in Trump V’s decision. UU. During the arguments in the case, Mr. John Sauer, Trump’s lawyer, who is now the Attorney General, literally argued that the president would be immune to criminal prosecution, even if he ordered the Navy’s seal team to kill his political rivals, since directing military actions is a central power of the presidency. The same could be said of any use of the military, including Direct the military to interf illegally in the elections or organize a coup d’etat.

“If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and orders the army to order someone, to kill him, is he within his official acts by which he can obtain immunity?” Sotomayor asked Sauer during the arguments in the case.

“It would depend on the hypothetical,” Sauer replied. “We could see how well it could be an official act.”

In dissent, Sotomayor saw the opinion of the majority as the approval of Sauer’s opinion that such scandalous acts would be considered immune as central presidential powers.

“When he uses his official powers in any way, under the reasoning of the majority, he will now be isolated from criminal prosecution,” Sotomayor wrote. “Does the Seal of Marina 6 team order a political rival? Immune. Organize a military coup to hold on to power? Immune. It takes a bribe in exchange for forgiveness? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”

Citing John Adams’s famous statement that the United States is based as “a government and not men’s government,” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in his Trump v. United States that “that vision and promise are probably fleeting in the future.”

“[T]Seeds of absolute power have been planted for the presidents, ”Jackson wrote. And they are now blooming so that everyone sees it.