Today is July 4 — the day we traditionally join together as a nation to celebrate our independence from a tyrannical monarchy.
But the United States Supreme Court has now enshrined in law the very thing we fought to gain our independence from two and a half centuries ago.
As you no doubt know by now, the court has ruled that U.S. presidents are immune from prosecution for almost anything they do in office.
- That means if Donald Trump becomes president again, he could take bribes in exchange for handing out pardons.
- And, with this travesty of a Supreme Court ruling, he would face zero legal consequences.
- Donald Trump could have SEAL Team Six assassinate a political rival — or anyone else, for that matter, including you.
- And, with this travesty of a Supreme Court ruling, he would face zero legal consequences.
- Donald Trump could order a military coup so that he can remain in power.
- And, with this travesty of a Supreme Court ruling, he would face zero legal consequences.
- I am not exaggerating. Describing exactly these hypothetical actions by a future president, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent what the result would be if anyone tried to bring criminal charges: “Immune, immune, immune.”
The Supreme Court has granted U.S. presidents the type of immunity associated with kings, not elected officials.
The choice facing each and every one of us is this:
Do we consent to be subjects of a de facto king?
Do we give in to a self-fulfilling prophecy of despair?
Or do we stand for what we know to be right, even if the fight just got even harder?
I know what the answer is for Public Citizen.
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We mobilize with everything we’ve got.
We campaign with the same force and resolve that has kept us powering forward — and winning, even when the chances of success seemed infinitesimal — for over 50 years.
We rise up together.
And we do not, do not, do not give up.
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- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
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