"King Maker": Supreme Court conservative majority violates intentions created in the Declaration of Independence

 Trump ‘monarchy’ violates Declaration of Independence

Opinion echo letter published in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper

The news alert came across on July 1: “Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election.” We received the announcement of the seeming return to a monarchy just three days before the 248th birthday of the Declaration of Independence. Total immunity of the sovereign is the very condition that the 13 colonies were rejecting in the Declaration: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.” The Declaration goes on to cite example after example of the kind of unconstrained powers that the then ruling monarch had used to suppress the citizens of the colonies.

The president does have broad powers, including the power to adjourn Congress until a time of his choosing (Article 3, Section 3), but nowhere does the Constitution specify that the president has immunity from actions in office or after; and nowhere is there reference to, much less a definition of, “unofficial actions.” 

The (IMO "ignorant") actions thbye majority of the Supreme Court in bouncing the definition of unofficial actions back to a lower court was a patently political and cowardly act. If efforts to encourage the overthrow of a presidential election and perpetuate himself in office doesn’t constitute an “unofficial act,” what possibly could? 

Moreover, official or not, how can such an act be any than but unconstitutional and a violation of oath? On this Independence Day, it’s sad day to say goodbye to what so many have worked and fought and died for.

From Bill Thompson Apopka, Florida