Impeach Clarence Thomas for his acceptance of bribes and gifts from Harlin Crow. As per: https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/clarence-thomas-accepted-bribes-allegations-explained-2db13c
"...the question of whether gifts rose to bribery under federal law remains contested and legally unresolved in the public record"
Impeach him, but don't sit a new one because it's too close to the election
just the words 'presidential immunity' seem so unpatriotic and not american.
Blame the SCOTUS for turning an unofficial Justice Department Policy into a Constitutional Principle. The Justice Department is run by the President, after all. What guarantee do we have that any investigation would be fair?
The President's bogus lawsuit against the IRS awarding him eleventy billion dollars and "settling" for a ban on auditing his finances is a perfect example. A judge threw that out, legitimately, because when the President sues an agency he is in charge of, there are no adverse parties, and any "settlement" is a sham. (That whole affair would be an impeachable offense if someone with a blue tie tried that.)
That wasn't a criminal prosecution, but imagine if Todd Blanche tomorrow announced that he had "investigated" Trump's crypto grift and found that it was entirely above board, nothing to see there, and we should all just stop talking about it. Would we believe him?
The policy of the DoJ not investigating the President was meant to protect the integrity of the DoJ, not the President.
It was always envisioned that a truly corrupt President could be investigated after the fact, by a DoJ that doesn't report to him. I have no clue why the SCOTUS saw something stricter in the penumbra of the Constitution.
If a newly-elected Democratic president Officially Acted on some top Republicans and Justices first, then I imagine there would be an appetite for a legislative fix to the original misruling.
Can’t we like, just make it a law now? Supreme Court doesn’t make laws they are just supposed to enforce them.
The executive branch enforces laws, the judicial branch interprets them.
Trump and/or 6 or so Senate Republicans would need to get on board to make this a law
Well on top of MAGA fatigue, I could see 6 Republicans voting for that under the premise that it's "to ensure that we can prosecute any future democratic president for things like Hunter Biden's laptop and yada yada yada". It doesn't need to make sense it just has to be framed as against democrats.
I would love to see this happen but good out little hope. I think Trump's base support would have to completely crater for that many senators to cross him
The current conservative controlled court would strike it down as unconstitutional, probably on a shadow docket so they wouldn’t have to write up why.
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