Said it a week or two ago but it should be repeated. Gutting public school systems to fund charter schools and vouchers was one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas.

Biden should officially declare the Republican party a terrorist organization today and have the DOJ seize their accounts and assets.

#35,

We already have guns that we already know how to use. We just think some guns should be much harder to get.

Boaz has no idea what progressive means. It's just a buzz word for something he's frightened of, in this case the rule of law is the progressive thing he hates.

In her dissent, she declared that "When [a president] uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution." She listed out some extreme cases where she argued this ruling would shield presidents from prosecution:

Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.

Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority's message today.

Sotomayor added: "In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law." She went on, concluding her dissent by stating her "fear for our democracy":

The majority's single-minded fixation on the President's need for boldness and dispatch ignores the countervailing need for accountability and restraint. The Framers were not so single-minded. In the Federalist Papers, after "endeavor[ing] to show" that the Executive designed by the Constitution "combines ... all the requisites to energy," Alexander Hamilton asked a separate, equally important question: "Does it also combine the requisites to safety, in a republican sense, a due dependence on the people, a due responsibility?" The Federalist No. 77, p. 507 (J. Harvard Library ed. 2009). The answer then was yes, based in part upon the President's vulnerability to "prosecution in the common course of law." Ibid. The answer after today is no.

Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop.

With fear for our democracy, I dissent.

Trump and his packed court have fundamentally changed this country for the worse. I am pretty much certain the country won't survive another Trump term if he wins.

Still doesn't abdicate a city's civic duties to its citizens.

Are the homeless not also citizens?

#17,

Don't bother with censored, they are a troll with a complete lack of morality and common decency. Plonk the account and go about your day without having to read the poison it spews. You'll thank yourself for doing it.

He doesn't care about those kids, never did.

Some of you folks here have never hit on hard times and it shows in your disgustingly privileged attitudes.

Criminalizing being poor, which is what this decision will doubtlessly lead to, should be seen as a crime against humanity. Anyone who supports this is morally bankrupt.

More: The court concluded that the law, enacted in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the Enron accounting scandal, was only intended to apply in limited circumstances involving tampering with physical evidence.

The court sent the case back to lower courts for further proceedings on whether the Justice Department could still prosecute Fischer under the new interpretation of the law.

The statute in question, 18 U.S. Code 1512, carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

To what extent the ruling favors Trump remains to be seen. Prosecutors in Trump's case said that even if Fischer wins, Trump's conduct would still be covered by a narrower interpretation of the statute.

Fischer faces seven criminal charges, only one of which was the focus of the Supreme Court case. Even if the obstruction charge is ultimately dismissed, the other charges, including assaulting a police officer and entering a restricted building, will remain in place.

This is blatantly unconstitutional, but still might make it past the current supreme court.

#20,

Cry harder, it's funny.

There goes that talking point. Yet another win for President Biden.

Yeah the immunity deal they got was wrong. If this does anything other than remove the immunity it's a double edged sword. That settlement money is important.

Really the only question I have is will Trump ---- his pants before or after he walks out on stage?

More: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a hotly contested deal that shielded members of the billionaire Sackler family from civil lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic.

The decision, in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, clouds the future of a settlement that committed billions of dollars to victims of the opioid epidemic, but it opens up the possibility that the Sacklers, who own Purdue while it remains in bankruptcy limbo, would face a deeper reckoning. And it may spell broader changes for other major settlements that insulate individuals behind acts of corporate wrongdoing.

The justices split along unusual lines. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion, joined by Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Samuel Alito. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the dissent, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Biden can't pass a piss test.

Biden doesn't have to pass a piss test. Keep up the narrative though it'll be Trumps only excuse for his piss poor performance.

The bigger story, IMO, is they screwed up again and let out a ruling before it was time to do so. This court is as inept as it is corrupt.

Whats the over/under on these guys just deserting and running as soon as they get the chance?

The Russians will use them as bullet sponges.

I said when they launched that it was foolish to ride a new Boeing capsule into space. Sadly I was not wrong.

Presidential debates have become pure political theater. I haven't bothered to watch one since Obama's first campaign.

#12,

But Hamas is a terrorist organization, right? Are you saying the nation of Israel and their army shouldn't have higher standards of conduct than a terrorist organization?