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"Having seen first-hand how complex and difficult that job is," he wrote, "I believe it vital that the President be able to focus on his never-ending tasks with as few distractions as possible." He acknowledged that blocking litigation would suggest the President was "above the law," but he added that "the point is not to put the President above the law or to eliminate checks on the President, but simply to defer litigation and investigations until the President is out of office."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/politics ... index.htmlInteresting pick.
If a majority of those corporate hack poster boys already on the Court agree with this sentiment then this is the largest step since 1933 in Germany that any country will have taken to enshrining the
fuhrerprinzip into constitutional law with an explicit pronouncement that
the will of the leader is above all written law and the entire apparatus of the state will be bent towards the satisfaction of that will. At it's weakest this means a president can be as corrupt as he wants and be completely unaccountable for it until after his term is over, which means nothing because his successor will just pre-emptively pardon him anyway. Or he resigns a couple of months prior to the new administration coming in, his vice-president takes over as a lame duck, and grants the pardon.
At it's worst it confers upon the president all the powers of a king. The impeachment threat is permanently neutered because NOTHING is a crime if a president does it, as per Nixon's belief. This wedges the door open permanently to the enshrining that the president can do anything he wants, anytime he wants, to anyone he wants, and anywhere across the world. From "merely" being an active partner to a gangster foreign government, like the one in Russia, to engaging in a genocide or undeclared war anywhere in the world in the name of "national security", without any legal prohibition upon him and without any single part of the state able to contain/impede/quarantine his desires.
The republic is over. A corporate empire has begun. The United States we've known throughout our entire lifetimes is gone forever.
