Immunity Wasn't Enough. Supremes Void Checks and Balances for Trump.
The Supreme Court just overturned lower courts' injunctions that tried to block the authoritarian president.
Last July, in the final decision of its term, the Supreme Court conferred immunity from prosecution on the U.S. president for any official act he might take, no matter if illegal. We wrote, "This Court has bestowed immunity on the one potential president most likely to commit illegal acts."
How true. As soon as Trump took office, he set about issuing a tsunami of executive orders, many of which broke laws. In response to lawsuits, a host of district court judges issued nationwide injunctions to block Trump's actions until the suits play out at trial.
What's now happened? On Friday, the Court took a major step to doubly empower the president, winding up the current term by stripping the judges' presumptive power to issue universal injunctions.
OFF LEASH
The 6-to-3 decision thereby frees all of the president's decrees to go forward, legal or not. Gone are the checks and balances of the Constitution's grand design to forever prevent the newly formed United States from ever becoming a monarchy. There's nothing left to control the king. Certainly not Congress. The Republicans control both chambers yet quake in fear of retaliation by Trump should they stray from absolute fealty. Congress now only exists to do his bidding. If that's not apparent, one need only …