Next month is the 50th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Nixon, before he was impeached and convicted by Congress. It was one of the finest moments in US history where Congress held a president accountable for his crimes. Nixon famously said "I am not a crook." He was.
With the scotus ruling fifty years later, would he have been pressured to resign? We have to remember what Nixon did the October before called "the Saturday massacre," when he ordered two people to fire the prosecutor named Archibald Cox and they refused, until he got a third stooge named Robert Bork to do so. Americans, look up the names Archibald Cox, Elliott Richardson and William Ruckleshaus who all should be well remembered.
People in later years tried to white-wash what Nixon did, but about two dozen of his staff went to jail including his top two aides and Attorney General. I mention this as what Donald J. Trump has done is far worse in magnitude and volume than what Nixon did. Trump and his sycophants say Trump has done nothing wrong. Really? Not a thing?
Fraud? Sedition? Election meddling? Serial sexual assault? Defamation? Classified document mishandling? Purposeful dividing of America? Botching the pandemic response? Screwing up the first travel ban so badly it was pulled after two days? Nothing wrong? Didn't Trump brag on his impunity of serial sexual assault before he used his "locker room talk" BS defense?
We the people have to hold our elected officials accountable, including the president. The scotus truly got this ruling wrong. And, while we are at it, I don't care for a scotus associate justice taking numerous bribes. Graft gives me concern. How can anyone trust someone who enriches himself?
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