Jesus, the SCOTUS ruling was much worse than I realized.

The US President is now immune from any criminal prosecution for virtually anything they do while in office. Furthermore, nothing they do while in office can be used as evidence in any criminal trial over something that happened when they weren't in office.

Technically, this isn't 100% sweeping across all circumstances, but the court basically ruled that the president can only be held accountable if they're not officially acting in the office of the President... which is like... what does that mean, how can it be proved, who gets to decide what does and doesn't count? There's no line, there.

So fuck the whole point of creating a democracy without a king.

Biden could now, in theory, just openly murder Trump on live TV, and face no criminal consequences. He could order anyone else to do so, and while that person is not protected, the President could pardon them, even preemptively. The President could order the murder of the whole of their political opponents and that's now immune from criminal prosecution, and again, they can pardon anyone who assists them in this coup, granting them immunity as well.

What the actual fuck.