Immunity ruling can cut both ways

I was in a deep dark funk last week after the Right Wing Supreme Court majority decreed that the president has total immunity for “official acts” in office and “presumed immunity” for other acts, and motives can’t be considered. 

So the president can do pretty much whatever he (or she) wants with little prospect of accountability. It’s OK if the president is a corrupt dictator, which is a real looming prospect.

In my opinion, the Supreme Court has effectively thrown out the Constitution. It’s been apparent for several years that the Constitution isn’t worth the paper it’s written on if Congress, the president and now the court, won’t uphold it.

But then last week, the day before we were set to celebrate American ideals and freedom, I had a thought: the current president is Joe Biden. The court says he has unlimited power with no real legal accountability. 

Instead of Dems agonizing over whether he should withdraw from the election so someone else can stand against Donald Trump, Biden could just cancel the November presidential election on grounds of national security. Or just because.

The Supreme Court has said he can. I have no expectations Biden would do that, since he is a decent man who I’m pretty sure loves our country and the Constitution. I wouldn’t say the same about Trump if their positions were reversed.

– Carole McWilliams, Bayfield