No buddy, the Constitution is supposed to protect the people from fuck nuggets like Trump.

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    Well, I feel like the Supreme Court brought this upon themselves. They made Trump untouchable and now he’s using what they gave him.

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      Yeah. As utterly stupid as the argument sounds, he can’t be prosecuted for any official acts and he can pardon anyone who enacts his will, so his administration can deny anyone their constitutional rights and escape accountability.

      That’s not the same as saying folks don’t have rights, but effectively they can be denied any meaningful opportunity to exercise them, without consequence. Someone has a right to a trial? You and what army are going to get to his cell to take them before a judge? No army? Then good luck getting him to court because anyone preventing you from doing so is immune to legal action and anyone NOT preventing you is fired.

      The Supreme Court has issued some terrible rulings in the last twenty years. “Democracy is autocracy” is some 1984-level shit.