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Pour one out for the state prosecutors. District Attorneys Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis awoke this morning to a new legal landscape after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are presumptively immune for their official acts, and absolutely immune for those duties that are “exclusively and preclusively” their purview. Only unofficial acts are fair game. Where, then, does that leave the cases launched against Trump from New York and Fulton counties? In just as much trouble, we reckon, as the January 6 case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith at the District of Columbia that precipitated the brouhaha over immunity...

President Joe Biden was roundly mocked after he debuted his new spray tan during his remarks about the Supreme Court’s decision on Donald Trump‘s immunity case. However, viewers noticed more than Biden’s bizarre look; they also noticed that he read “end of the quote” during another battle with the teleprompter. “Justice Sotomayor’s dissent today. She hears what she said. She said that in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law with fear for our democracy. I dissent.” “End of quote.” But Biden’s spray-tanned look was a topic of conversation on social media. Following...

President Joe Biden delivered an address from the White House last night on the presidential immunity decision by the Supreme Court. While pledging that he will defend the rule of law, President Biden misrepresented what that law is in the aftermath of Trump v. United States.While we have often discussed false constitutional claims by the President as well as other false statements, an address of this kind is particularly concerning in misleading citizens on the meaning of one of the most important decisions in history.As I have previously written, I am not someone who has favored expansive presidential powers. As...

The Supreme Court Trump v. United States ruling that former presidents are entitled to some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution has significant implications for the ongoing legal battles surrounding Donald Trump. This ruling, widely perceived as a victory for Trump, has nuanced elements that warrant closer scrutiny, particularly in the comments made by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.The Court’s decision confirmed that presidents are protected from prosecution for official actions extending to the "outer perimeter" of their office, while unofficial conduct remains vulnerable to legal scrutiny. This distinction is crucial, as it provides a pathway for prosecutors to refocus their...

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has long been a thorn in the side of American conservatives. She's been pilloried in the right-wing press by a range of so-called political experts, including college drop-out and shock jock Lars Larson, who publicly declared that Justice Ginsburg is "anti-American." Her stinging dissent in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which recently granted corporations certain exceptions to the Affordable Care Act with regard to birth control coverage, has once again loosed the gates of extreme conservative rhetoric. One columnist in The Washington Times even crowned her "liberal bully of the week" even though hers was the...

The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will not yet review challenges to an Illinois ban on certain types of semi-automatic weapons, attachments and magazines, effectively leaving the law in place while lower courts decide the cases. In its final order list before going on a summer recess, the Court denied petitions to hear six different cases over the so-called "assault weapons ban," prompting a statement from Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas noted that the Supreme Court was presented the case after the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit already rejected a request for a preliminary injunction against the law....

Oh my. Liberals haven't thought this through at all. There is a flood of limp wristed hand wringing transpiring among liberal circles following the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity. They should be grateful instead, but they are short sighted and lacking in memory. Let's have a look at the histrionics from a couple of left-wing Biden sycophants. First, the ever-hyperbolic Elie Mystal. Well, yes. It's been done. Barack Obama killed four Americans in drone strikes. No indictment, no trial, no jury of their peers. Just BOOM. On Wednesday, the Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time that four Americans...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration proposed a new rule Tuesday to address excessive heat in the workplace, as tens of millions of people in the U.S. are under heat advisories due to blistering temperatures. If finalized, the measure would protect an estimated 36 million U.S. workers from injuries related to heat exposure on the job — establishing the first major federal safety standard of its kind. Those affected by excessive heat in the workplace include farmworkers, delivery and construction workers, landscapers and indoor workers in warehouses, factories and kitchens. Under the proposed rule, employers would be required to identify...

<p>Following the decision, some legal experts speculated on what impact the ruling could have on the case in Fulton County, Georgia. Trump was indicted by Willis last August in a 2020 election interference case following a phone call he had with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021 when he asked him to "find" more than 11,000 votes ...</p>

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for later this month. The letter to Judge Juan M. Merchan cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier Monday and asked the judge to delay Trump’s sentencing while he weighs the high court’s decision and how it could influence the New York case, according to the letter obtained by The Associated Press. The lawyers argue that the Supreme Court’s decision confirmed a position the defense raised earlier in the...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas questioned, in a concurring opinion affirming presidents have “at least presumptive immunity” for official acts, whether Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office and appointment are constitutional in the first place.In a 6-3 decision on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled presidents have “absolute immunity” for “actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority” and “at least presumptive immunity” for all “official acts.”The decision came after Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, indicted former President Donald Trump for questioning the administration of the 2020 election. The Supreme Court also sent several of the alleged actions...

On Monday evening, President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Trump v. United States, a 6-3 decision which found that presidents has immunity when acting in what the Court stressed was their official capacity. How did he manage to do so? He spoke for less than four minutes, and left without taking any questions. In case there was any doubt how he felt, the president screeched that he agreed with Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent, declaring "I dissent!" That doesn't mean Biden wasn't prone to some truly hypocritical points in his remarks, which were very clearly prewritten by someone else and...

He evens screws up the teleprompter.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Monday on “Deadline” that the Supreme Court ruling in Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case meant she could be targeted if the former president wins a second term. Wallace said, “In the very last decision of its term, the highest court in the land handed future presidents a, ‘Loaded weapon,’ in the words of a dissenting justice, aimed straight at the rule of law in the country. The conservative 6-3 majority of the court, half of them appointed by ex-president Donald Trump, two others have been faced calls for their recusal in this very case, a...

JUST IN - Biden will deliver a statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling at 7:45pm, the White House says.

President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court’s Monday ruling on presidential immunity that impacts the indictment against him concerning January 6. The ruling held in a 6-3 decision that presidents are covered by limited immunity from criminal prosecutions for actions taken while in office. “BIG WIN FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!” Trump posted on Truth Social.Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the opinion for the Court’s majority, said:[cut]SCOTUS notices that Trump’s indictment includes only “select” January 6 tweets and “brief snippets” of his speech, “omitting its full text or context.”This is why old Twitter nuked...

For those that missed it ( less than 5 mins) President Biden's response to today's Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity

VIDEO The liberal meltdowns over the SCOTUS immunity decision in the Trump appeal are starting to come in. Yes, some are quite wild as you can see in this example. However, it is NOTHING compared to the Supernova explosion I am expecting from a certain someone with whom most of us are familiar. So far today, this person appears to be in lockdown but I assure you, when it happens I fully expect the ANGER to be of Supernova magnitude. The reason I am not revealing the person's identity yet is because I want the DUmmie FUnnies to scoop this...

Two lines from the opinion, where the Supreme Court justices address the trial judge in Trump's election interference case, are getting a lot of attention "And the parties and the District Court must ensure that sufficient allegations support the indictment’s charges without such conduct," they write. That means that once the official acts are stripped away, the trial court must decide if there's enough still in the indictment to go forward. They're basically warning that the case against Trump may fall apart. They also write: "Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not...

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has questioned the legitimacy of Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel as the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump is partially immune from prosecution for actions taken while he was in the White House. In a 6-3 ruling, the justices returned Trump's case to the trial court to determine what is left of special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of Trump.