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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday in yet another landmark case, this time involving presidential immunity. Damn, we’re getting pretty tired of these “unprecedented” times!

• Over the course of some two-and-a-half hours of arguments, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled support for giving presidents some level of criminal immunity for certain acts taken while in office. Lawyers for disgraced former president Donald Trump appealed his immunity case all the way to the highest court in the land over claims he cannot be prosecuted for trying to overturn the 2020 election. 

• Trump has long claimed that the President of the United States has “absolute immunity”—which even some of the Court’s most notorious conservative whack-jobs seemed to rebuff. However, some of those same whack-jobs also indicate a belief that the president needs some immunity from criminal prosecution. At the heart of the discussion was the question of what constitutes an “official act” for which a president cannot be prosecuted. The lawyer representing Trump, D. John Sauer, was truly On One on Thursday, arguing that without total immunity from criminal prosecution “there can be no presidency as we know it.” Because the president simply NEEDS to be able to do crimes! 

• Under questioning from the Court’s three liberal justices, Sauer stood firm in his batshit argument. Justice Elena Kagan asked if immunity would apply “if the president orders the military to stage a coup.” Sauer replied: “That might well be an official act.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked whether the president “creating a fraudulent slate of electoral candidates” would be “within his right?” Sauer replied: “Absolutely.” What about the president assassinating a political rival he deems corrupt, Sotomayor asked. Again, Sauer said: “That could well be an official act.” Thanks for clearing that up, my guy! We are, in fact, talking about full-blown authoritarianism. 

It was, apparently, another blustery day in the Manhattan courtroom holding Donald Trump’s hush money trial. (He kept complaining that the court room was “freezing.”) Emil Bove, one of Trump’s innumerable lawyers, cross-examined former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker in his third day of testimony. Pecker gave the prosecution exactly what it was looking for on Thursday and Friday when he offered jurors a vivid explanation of two “catch and kill” arrangements he made with Trump about unflattering stories: one with former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed she had a yearlong relationship with Trump, and the other now infamously related to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Pecker also detailed Trump’s personal involvement in getting the two women to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent them from going public with their stories during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump even hosted a “thank you” dinner for Pecker at the White House in 2017. Pecker admitted to having approved a forward-facing corporate lie—denying the existence of the agreements when the Wall Street Journal investigated—to “protect” his company, he said. 

Trust in the Supreme Court dropped to an historic low in the wake of the Dobbs decision in 2022. Two years later, the Court hasn’t been able to rebuild trust, with the majority of Americans no longer having faith in the institution, and a plurality of those polled feeling that it is “too conservative.” That’s so weird… I wonder what could have given them that impression?

The Alabama state House approved legislation that could lead to the prosecution of librarians under state obscenity laws for providing minors with materials the conservative legislature deems “harmful,” as part of a larger nationwide crusade to ban books. The bill now moves to the state Senate.

In other terrifying news from red states, Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) announced on Thursday that he plans to sign a bill passed in the state legislature that would allow K-12 educators and staff members to carry concealed handguns on school grounds. 

In her new autobiography, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD)—said to be on Trump’s short list for VP—detailed killing her own family dog…almost proudly(?) as some sort of bizarre conservative “I do what it takes,” bullshit narrative. This woman shot a 14-month-old puppy, and was so pleased with the job she did, that she then killed a goat she didn’t like on the family farm! And she volunteered all of this information! 

Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has asked a Texas federal judge to block the National Labor Relations Board from pursuing claims that the rocket maker required workers to sign illegal severance agreements. “On what grounds?” you may ask. Well, Elon teamed up with a bunch of other evil billionaires like Jeff Bezos in February and launched a legal campaign questioning the constitutionality of the NLRB. The group of corporate super villains asked the courts to effectively dismantle the New Deal-era agency in an effort to even further tip the scales away from workers and towards corporations. If any of them could grow facial hair I’m sure they would all be twisting their mustaches maniacally. 

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A staggering 53 individuals who aided in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election have now been criminally charged. Gotta catch em all!