The enviably good legal writer Ian Millhiser of Vox recently made an extremely relevant observation that all American little people should keep very well in mind when watching President Trump get indicted on 91 felony counts: don’t count on our messy, busted, hack-infested federal judiciary to actually deliver justice here.
Interlaced with that mess is the complication of our hallowed American setup of dual legal systems, state and federal, prompting Digby of Hullabaloo to wonder yet again if the American political setup was any kind of good idea at all. President Trump could easily be convicted in multiple venues, how is that supposed to work out if necessary?
Of course President Trump could get convicted, much stranger things have happened, and then two more evolutions must occur, somehow there must be a bureaucratic evolution that unshackles the Secret Service from ceaselessly protecting a convicted felon, it simply cannot be done. Then as Amanda Marcotte of Salon wrote there is the equally important mental evolution necessary among most Americans that of course yes President Trump is going to prison, he finally didn’t get away with it this time.
Nobody listens to me, I’ve said it a million times the Republican Party is in accelerating regression, so much so we may get to the point where the Party nominates President Trump again for 2024 and then the lying criminal gets convicted and imprisoned. At that point it all becomes hopeless and pointless, the Republicans would have to by default then use the Vice President choice as their 2024 nominee.
Heh, good luck on that snarling, stupid, fiercely whining crybaby Republican Party of ever mustering the necessary character and mental competence for that. Perhaps watching that splat of humiliating failure would finally make it obvious to even the New York Times what a ripping mess of fascism the Republicans have become.
Yes, I do think chances are even-steven President Trump gets convicted, but after that any kind of predicted political scenario in this highly dangerous nuclear flaming mess is the merest fling of fantasy, no one has a clue as to this will eventually work out or the general conclusions we’ll possess with it looking back in 2030.
But there is once crystal clear fact in all this reeking, sparking haze, the federal Supreme Court is smashed and busted, yes, but in some fantasy scenario of federal appeal they won’t save President Trump upon conviction, the Republican Party authoritarian takeover of the court is already plain done, rescuing President would make that accomplishment all too obvious and Soviet, the tattered cloak of Supreme Court viability must always be pathetically maintained.
Republican Party Supreme Court destruction obvious and done to this American, but if directly asked 95% of Americans would tentatively state a Supreme Court stacked with those pervert Catholic fanatics means, well, future legal decisions will slant to the conservative side. That’s not what happens or has happened at all, almost all little people Americans still walk around oblivious that their American government is broken, so very busted this very moment.
Stare decisis, it means precedence, abortion was illegal, then legal, but now illegal again? What a joke this Supreme Court has made of faith in the law. These lying, corrupt clowns abrogate the Presidency, they usurp Congress, they nullify pesky EPA bureaucracy, but most Americans still walk and breathe as if the American government they grew up with still exists.
It’s gone, smashed and busted, the triad of American political functionality won’t work if the Supreme Court has become its own lying authoritarian fiefdom, an EPA is kind of handy when dealing with a climate crisis.
Obviously it’s very much in the authoritarian worldview to keep all this as hidden or politely discussed as possible. Somehow rescuing a convicted President Trump would make it all so obvious, so Putinesque, so unnecessary when the authoritarian deed and destruction has already been accomplished.
President Biden has previously stated Supreme Court reform isn’t on the legislative agenda for 2025. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone is given the chance for change. When President Biden wins his second term next year the sacred duty he holds for the office of Presidency should instantly show him a broken judicial branch he has to attempt fixing, or American history will show his second term as caretaker to declining American failure. Smashed fertility rights, gun violence slaughter, ignoring the climate crisis, hatred toward races and the LGBT community, this is immensely depressing and saddening American failure we now live with, it does not and will not be forever this way.