It is cruel irony that the Supreme Court issued its abominable decision in Trump v. United States three days before this Independence Day 2024. The American Revolution was fought in order that Americans would secure our nation’s independence from the British monarchy
and its then-ruling King George III and could establish its own system of constitutional self-government in which no man -- last of all the President of the United States -- would be above the law.
Constitutional scholars and other students of the Constitution and the Supreme Court are already likening Trump v. United States to the most opprobrious and ignominius decisions ever decided by the Supreme Court, including Dred Scott, Korematsu, and Plessy v. Ferguson.
In this article “Roberts Court, A Threat to Democracy’s Future,” Sharon L. Davies, President and CEO of the Kettering Foundation, observes that “[Trump v. United States] immediately takes its place alongside those decisions[,]
elevat[ing] the president to a near-monarch --precisely what the Founders sought to prevent by building checks and balances into our system of governance -- threaten[ing] our nation’s democracy.”
“By undermining those safeguards, the majority paves the way for aspiring strongmen of the future to hold themselves above the rule of law and unaccountable to the public will," she continues.
Neal Katyal and I are Senior Fellows of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and said as much in an interview yesterday with Kettering’s Brad Rourke, which will be released Monday.
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