The first overturn of the current SCOTUS composition’s decisions may turn out to be a hot competition between Dobbs and several others. Lisa Rubin on MaddowBlog makes a case for the horrifying Presidential immunity ruling:
When the Supreme Court immunity decision came down on July 1, I quickly determined the worst part was not its top-line holding but something stealthily buried in its dozens of pages: its prohibition on using conduct immune from prosecution as evidence — even where the charged conduct is wholly unofficial.
The lack of common sense in the conservative wing of SCOTUS is making one thing clear: they’re just as much fourth-raters as the common run of GOP officials, and, if unsurprising, that’s saying a lot. In some ways, Biden’s fundamental decency makes it a pity that he won’t take advantage of this version of the Roberts’ Court massive error.
When it comes to corruption, details matter. Thus, Al Capone ended up in jail on tax code violation convictions, not the murders of which he was generally believed guilty. As a non-lawyer, that’s how I see this detail of the ruling – an attempt to keep the corrupt safe from prosecution.
But an overturn would fix that.
