The Supreme Court and Criminal Behavior

Washington Post pundit Jennifer Rubin’s column yesterday was titled “‘MAGA’ justices already gave Trump de facto immunity — and disgraced the court.” The claim of Presidential immunity from prosecution for serious crimes committed while in office — essentially a claim that Trump had the prerogatives of an absolute monarch — is stomach-turningly antithetical to the Constitution and to the historical ethos of our country. It had been decisively rejected in the trial court and the Court of Appeals. As Rubin says, for the Supreme Court to delay Trump’s trial for six months on no rational basis, thereby preventing a verdict before the Presidential election, was election interference in itself. The six extreme right-wing justices responsible for this travesty have themselves exhibited criminal behavior. Such is the sorry state of affairs little more than four months before the election that will have permanent impact on our country’s future.