So folks I had to take a pause. I could not.

So folks, I had to take a pause. I could not really get my thoughts or my head wrapped around the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity.

Because I think it has profoundly shaken the foundations of our country.

Probably more. the foundations of our country, probably more so than anything we've seen so far.

Because what the Supreme Court did was to upend the very idea of America and to put in place an imperial presidency.

So let's take a step back. In April, the Supreme Court was asked by Donald Trump's lawyers to embrace a sweeping immunity argument,

asserting that a president sweeping immunity

while in office, and that this immunity

for official acts while in office,

and that this immunity applies after leaving office.

Special counsel Jack Smith argued

that only sitting presidents enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution.

And that any broad scope that Donald Trump and his lawyers were was proposing

would give a free pass to a president to commit criminal conduct without accountability.

So what happened?

Lower courts prior to the Supreme Court getting this case were largely

dismissive of what Donald Trump's lawyers were arguing. Judge Chuckin, US District Court Judge Tanya Chuckin,

when this matter was raised in the case before her noted, whatever, quote,

whatever immunities a sitting president may enjoy,

the United States has only one chief executive at a time.

And that position does not confer a lifelong

get out of jail free pass.

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