The SCOTUS Decision That Saved Joe Biden’s Hide
Friday, November 22, 2024
“Irony is just honesty with the volume turned up.” – George Saunders
On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. United States that “former presidents can never be prosecuted for actions relating to the core powers of their office, and that there is at least a presumption that they have immunity for their official acts more broadly.” The split decision left open the possibility that charges can still go forward “to the extent that they are based on a former president’s private conduct, rather than his official acts”, leaving it to the lower courts to make that distinction.
Obviously, former President Donald Trump was elated by the high court’s decision, but President Joe Biden had an entirely different take. “This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America,” Biden said. “Each – each of us is equal before the law. No one – no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States. With today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. For all – for all practical purposes, today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.”
Here is where irony comes into play…
When Judge H. Patrick Haggard issued his guilty verdict in the Laken Riley murder trial last week, sentencing her killer, Jose Antonio Ibarra to life in prison without parole, three of Ibarra’s co-defendants went Scot-free.
What do you mean, Dale? No one else was charged with the crime other than Ibarra. That is very true, but in my humble opinion, three other people should have been charged as accomplices: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
Yes, Ibarra committed the heinous crime and yes, he deserves the harshest penalty possible. However, there is no mistaking the fact that Ibarra was “aided and abetted” by President Biden and his administration’s purposely lax immigration policies. Not only did those failed policies open the floodgates along our southern border, but they also prevented the U.S. Border Patrol from deporting Ibarra once he was apprehended or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from sending him back to Venezuela when he was arrested on shoplifting charges in both New York City and Atlanta.
As much as Laken Riley’s blood was found on Jose Ibarra’s jacket, so is her blood on the hands of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary Mayorkas… and the only thing saving President Biden from criminal prosecution is the aforementioned SCOTUS decision that he criticized so heavily.
