"...Rather than grapple with the situation at hand — a defeated president worked with his allies to try to overturn the results of an election he lost, eventually summoning a mob to try to subvert the peaceful transfer of power — the Republican-appointed majority worried about hypothetical prosecutions against hypothetical presidents who might try to stay in office against the will of the people if they aren’t placed above the law.
"It
was a farce befitting the absurdity of the situation. Trump has asked
the Supreme Court if he is, in effect, a king. And at least four members
of the court, among them the so-called originalists, have said, in
essence, that they’ll have to think about it." -- Jamelle Bouie, New York Effing Times, on the corrupt Republican Supreme Court's review of the Malignant Loser's claims of absolute immunity from crimes committed while in office (see also QOTD, below).
