The [Supreme] Court easily could have let the lower court ruling against Trump [having presidential immunity] stand, but Roberts orchestrated a ruling that effectively pardoned Trump retrospectively and prospectively. That unprecedented and partisan edict paved the way for Trump’s return to power.
The Constitution provides zero immunity for presidents from criminal prosecution. But John Roberts chose to be the kingmaker, giving Trump king-like powers last year, and then this year mowing down well-founded and well-grounded temporary restraining orders [that allowed] an array of unilateral and extreme dictates to proceed — even though doing so will cause irreparable harm [by letting Trump] transgress constitutional provisions, laws passed by Congress and long-standing legal precedents.
Malfeasance and abuse of power is a feature, not a bug. There is no accountability, for any elected office holder. There’s the dog and pony show when someone does something deemed too egregious for the voter base to stomach, where the perpetrator will step down to spend time with their family as they quietly reflect on the “damage” they’ve done, but that’s smoke and mirrors for them being offered a private sector role where any connections they made while holding the reigns of power can be utilized to get tax payer dollars for the company that funds them, or help lobby for ever less restrictive legislation that will allow the company to dump toxic waste into the municipal drinking water then charge those effected to clean it up, all while doing everything they can to reduce the chance they ever have to pay taxes. Accountability isn’t something that applies to the suits in Washington. Laura Bush and Ted Kennedy both killed people, if it had been you or I doing that we’d still be serving time, but for them the qualifying question of “was the victim someone of power, status, or influence?” was asked before the ball even got rolling on the judicial process. Those in power are all above the law, every single one of them, and it’s because of that there is no cognition that these office holders are public servants. They kowtow to the biggest donor, not the public that actually goes to the voting booth. So long as McDonald’s, Bayer, Nestle, Verizon/AT&T-Time-Warner-AOL-Atari-Discovery-Paramount-Skydance-Chuck E. Cheese (whatever other fuckin’ company decides to buy that behemoth)/T-Mobile, Cargill, Dow, DuPont, Pfizer, Disney, Moderna, United Health/Aetna/Cigna, CVS, ExxonMobil, Haliburton, Lockheed, Boeing, and the Duck Dynasty crew (just to name a few) get to throw unlimited money at candidates promising favorable legislation on their behalf, there will be no accountability for the corruption and incompetence that permeates the halls of power. JD Vance said the right things to Peter Thiel and Thiel cut a check to have a talking head in a position of power that could further his [Thiel’s] goals. Until the public gets their shit together and crowd funds a candidate that can’t be bought no matter the cost or threat to family/business interests, we’ll continue to have one shit stain candidate after another, promising a brighter tomorrow to the public, while working feverishly to ensure the shares waiting for them from their sponsor company reach maximum value upon their leaving office or retiring.
I get the gist of what you’re saying, but the “law” has nothing to with morals, ethics, or righteousness and never has. So the “law” will be brought down on anyone who questions the authority of the ones with the most power, and that includes those who also have power, just not as much. They have already threatened Ilhan Omar and Zohran Mamdani with risk of deportation. The House refuses to seat Adelita Grijalva. Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been slapped with felony charges. The “law” is also coming after people who enabled all this chicanery as well, including James Comey and Merrick Garland. The pardons that Biden wrote to protect the people in his administration from the incoming Trump administration have been struck as null and void by the Republican apparatus, and charges are likely coming for anyone and everyone in Biden’s orbit, up to and including Biden himself, no matter the Supreme Court ruling that effectively said “if the President does it, it’s not a crime.” They’ll find a way to make anything Biden did a crime, despite that.
Your post also ignores how much more the wealthy private sector benefactors of these political puppets gain by legalizing their corruption through lobbying and bribery. The kind of things they should be in jail for are perverted because their wealth, as you pointed out, allows them to buy out the fear of prosecution from the law. I think it’s unfair to say all those with political power are immune to prosecution when it’s clear they’re happy to go after people like Comey and Garland. I would say those people who aren’t in the political organizations but are rather pulling the strings have even more safety than the politicians. The “law” isn’t ever going to materially come down on Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Steve Huffman, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel and so on. That’s because their wealth bought their way out of that by legalizing the worst of what they do. They have used their wealth to leverage control over a badly designed political system and prevent healthy changes to the system at every step of the way for nearly the entire existence of the USA.
Anyway, I just think your ire should be pointed a little less at a badly designed political system which has been gamed by the wealthy, and instead at the wealthy so willing to game it because they don’t give one hot damn about the future of the nation or it’s citizens. They are all ready to skip the country and go somewhere else when the house of cards falls, leaving us here to suffer after they’ve strip-mined it all. In that moment, many politicians will end up like Gaddafi, literally torn limb from limb by their former constituents, no longer protected by the “law.” The wealthy who enabled them, however, will be long gone in their New Zealand bunkers.