Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe was direct on MSNBC last Monday night. “Constitutional law was rocked to its very basis,” Tribe told Lawrence O’Donnell. “The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) turned the Constitution upside down in a very profound sense.”
With the recent passage of the 248th birthday of our country on July 4, consider that at no time in our history — from the founders to modern times — has anyone ever thought it necessary to do what SCOTUS did last week.
Emil Guillermo
You’ve heard of a demi-god. Now SCOTUS has given our democracy what I’d call a demi-king.
It’s an untouchable president who can do no wrong and fear no consequences. More than a president. Not quite a king. But king-like Potentially disastrous. A demi-king.
And, of course, the case involves the former disruptor-in-chief.
In Trump v. United States, six conservative justices enabled the 45th president once again to change our country’s constitutional norms.
