The headline “Judge rejects Trump’s bid to dismiss hush money conviction because of Supreme Court immunity ruling” (Dec. 16, TribLive) caught my eye. Reading the AP article raised my eyebrows, and I had to read and reread the last line of the first paragraph, “But the overall future of the historic case remains unclear.” Unclear? Only to those who haven’ been paying the least bit of attention.
The case, much about Donald Trump paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 for sex he says they never had, resulted in a jury conviction for falsifying business records. But thanks to Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices dreaming up presidential immunity from prosecution for federal crimes (not state), appeals have been made in the state case. His stall-and-appeal lawyers have won. Trump is above the law.
The indictments against Trump for stealing classified documents and inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection have vanished into thin air. The Georgia case dealing with election interference is on life support.
Our nation’s founders, fresh off a revolution cutting ties with the British monarchy, made an effort when writing the Constitution to provide a system of checks and balances that promised to prevent future heads of the executive branch of government from having king-like powers. They failed and must be rolling over in their graves.
American voters have elected a king.
Glenn Plummer
Unity