Hi there everyone it's four o'clock in the east the decision by the

Supreme Court that now after yesterday American presidents can legally function as kings.

It's a clarifying moment for everyone in what friend of the show, Sarah Longwell describes as the single largest voting coalition in American politics and that would be the

anti-Trump voters, our coalition. Now the dangers of a second Trump term

loom larger than at any other moment that has come before this now that the

conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court has made it clear and made it

official that the judiciary will not stand in the way of Donald Trump's autocratic intentions.

And the plans by Trump and his allies are not rumors, they're not innuendo, they're not

left-wing delusions, they're not even based on Pulitzer Prize-winning

investigative reporting on conversations

happening behind closed doors.

They're out in the public.

They're laid out for everyone to see.

Trump's promise to weaponize the Justice Department and the justice system

is broadcast nearly daily by Trump himself.

Just hours before the court's ruling in Trump versus the United States, Trump called for more

than one dozen of his critics to be imprisoned.

On that, the Times reports this, quote, one post that he circulated on Sunday singled out Liz Cheney and called for her to be prosecuted by a type of military court

reserve for enemy combatants and war criminals. A separate post included photos of 15 former and current elected

officials that said in all capital letters, quote, they should be going to

jail on Monday, not Steve Bannon. Those officials included, Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, Mr. Pence, Mr. Schumer,

and Mr. McConnell, the top leaders in the Senate,

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