Nixon and Reagan were criminals who should have been jailed.

And it was the failure to have Nixon prosecuted and then Raygun, thanks to Billy “low” Barr’s pardon recommendations cutting off the investigation, that allowed their henchmen like Cheney Sr. and Rumsfeld to continue to commit crimes in Dumbya’s maladministration and inculcated the belief in Rethuglicans they were above the law. We’re at this wretched point in our democracy from that failure to apply the law as it should have been to those low life criminals 😡🤬

They place faith in the anti-justice tenet that the more powerful should never have to fear anything from the less powerful. Because power is more than the ability to wield force. Indeed, the nature of power is to insulate the wielder from negative feedback and consequences. Applied without restraint, it is tyranny, because their essential belief system is the antipathy of democracy. In carpentry its known as a dovetail joint.*

You can hear this irrationality echoed in the voices of Alito and his fellow "arrived" and in-place judicial conspirators. Anything, no matter how irrational, is possible and permissible to these characters so long as it propels their agenda.

* usually, politics has less to do with carpentry but guess who builds gallows and guillotines. Hint: It ain't lawyers.

Such “disjointed” thinking by those who presume themselves “our betters,” like Scalito and Thomas and their fascist fraternity in the modern Rethuglican Party, destabilizes the whole architecture of our democracy, which rests on the bedrock premise of government by the just consent of ALL the people who receive the same protections by that government for their basic human rights, irrespective of class or wealth. Their preferred form of dictatorial government is one that exists solely for the purpose of the empowerment and enrichment of the select few, which of course means they and they alone.
Theirs is a loathsome attitude which hearkens back to that of the feudal lords and the monarchy which we fought that whole Revolutionary War to repudiate, and which rancid philosophy we’ve had to fight a number of wars against since, (see e.g. Civil War, WW2 et al) to defeat the evils unleashed by their preferred type of tyrannical government which inevitably brutally trampled the rights of all the people under their rule in order to further the limitless, exploitative pillaging of human beings by the select few of the self-appointed, privileged ruling class.

Since then they have all been criminals and the lack of prosecution has brought us to trump.

I guess Ford was not really a crook like the rest.
Just a placeholder.

Such a huge disappointment. Nixon never really showed remorse opening the door to more politicians like him.

Ford had the nerve to say the pardon was for the country to heal. OMG

Who needed to heal were Nixon and the GOP.

Nixon and his criminal buddies needed serious punishment for their numerous crimes.

unrepentant and often did the same sort of crap all over again. It was absolutely stunning. At least John Dean was remorseful and humbled by the experience. He changed for the better. I believe there are some people who cannot and will not change no matter the consequences, their only regrets being getting caught.

who claims, "It is for your own good".

Justice COMPLETELY and UNFAIRLY and WRONGLY denied.

It's not like he committed a crime that affected one person or even several. He committed a crime against the entire country and was not truly held accountable. We were all denied justice.

Even if Nixon never served any prison time, there should have been a trial where his crimes could be held under a microscope for the entire world to see in great detail. Let anyone else who thinks they can enter politics with corrupt intent know the consequences and the public humiliation if they are caught. Politicians like Nixon are why we have dirty tricksters like Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, not to mention candidates like Donald Trump.

Nixon's pardon is an indication former Presidents do NOT have immunity.

that even Nixon did not have the arrogance to claim immunity for everything he had done.

They are not in the same league as Nixon.

The U.S. has never had a cult as a mainstream political party like we do now.

are a breed apart. They, and their delusional leader, make Nixon and Co. look like choir boys.

Something to the effect of "If the President does it, then that means it's not illegal."

What a festering fuckweasel Nixon was...

I haven't thought of David Frost for eons, but you're right about that comment. When Nixon said it, he sounded so slimey and corrupt... which he was, of course!

Nixon did claim that if the President did it, then it wasn't illegal.

when Nixon said that when the president does it, it's not a crime.

The Conservative movement thinks pardoning Nixon was a good idea.

You need to remember that Nixon even being investigated and brought up for Impeachment, was the springboard to the Right Wing media ecosystem that we have today.

Roger Ailes and Pat Buchanan, who were aides to Nixon, while already wanting to have a "GOPTv" during the administration, decided after Nixon resigned, that NEVER AGAIN would a Conservative president face the idea of justice. They wanted to create a media that would push out the Conservative agenda without consideration of the truth and facts.

They thought it was good that Nixon didn't actually face the justice he should have and it directly benefited Conservative presidents from Reagan to Trump in following years.

Let us not forget Roger Stone who has a Nixon tattoo and has been a far right operative forever.

**#% this court of tyrants.

if these assholes say the president is above the law.

United States v. Nixon was a Supreme Court decision in which the Court unanimously ordered Nixon to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court. Kavanaugh has called United States v. Nixon one of the “greatest moments in American judicial history."

In the '90s Kavanaugh was a prosecutor investigating Clinton as part of Ken Starr's investigation. As a prosecutor "Kavanaugh cited Nixon in successfully arguing that President Clinton could not invoke privilege to withhold documents in a criminal investigation...Kavanaugh advocated for enacting a law to ensure the executive’s compliance with criminal subpoenas."

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/judge-kavanaugh-and-united-states-v-nixon

Kavanaugh didn't believe President Clinton had immunity then, does he feel the same way now that Trump is claiming immunity for attempting to overturn an election?

He got his seat on SCOTUS. Why and how were all of his debts repaid? Why did Justice Kennedy decide to retire at that moment. Kavanaugh is BOUGH AND PAID FOR.

from this morning's righteous rant -

"any sane Supreme Court would have quickly slapped Trump with a writ of go fuck yourself, and we’d be having a DC trial right now. but we don’t have a sane Court. we have four bought-and-paid for Federalist Society hacks who sit snugly in the pocket of the plutocrats who tell them how to vote — and we have Neil Gorsuch, who just fucking hates government and is deliberately out to create as much chaos as possible."

The blog is Jeff's, the emphasis is mine.


eta - link to blog if anyone wants to read - https://www.jefftiedrich.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile

Nixon knew and documented shit that would have rocked this country utterly. They let him go because he was blackmailing them. He was incredibly smart and crafty.

He even admitted as much.

Sadly, our society mostly goes along with that mindset. Either our society is majority drunkards, or the bulk of our population needs to attend Co-Dependents Anonymous treatment. It has long been my belief the latter is desperately needed.

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His pardon simply proved that Gerald Ford knew he was as guilty as sin.

Alito is delaying. Tradition is to wait for dissenting opinion being written before issuing ruling. He’s stonewalling and stalling. He’s a criminal. After Trump loses he should be arrested. At the very least.

Where presidents think they are immune from the law.

They imagine they are "special."

I didn't listen to it. i had a nice session with my counselor.

the only thing that matters is the decision.

And beer boy knows it. What a toolbox, sorry he is way more useless then a tool box is

Not many others did though.

If President Clinton was facing charges and was claiming presidential immunity, I'm pretty certain that these same "conservative" justices would have an entirely different opinion of the scope of immunity.

Pretty sure that the founding fathers would be spinning in their graves over this one. They did not mean to create a king. Aren't these the assholes that are supposed to believe in the founders' original intent?

I swear...these right wing Trump boot lickers better not rule for that no good bastard!

...and arrogance. They don't want to give an inch on anything, but when one of them gets in legal trouble, suddenly our side has to give in and pass on demanding justice in order to heal the country. Major WTF.

How can they say our country is healed, when their shenanigans are continually creating wedges between us?

The only remedy to this travesty of justice we heard at the Supreme Court today is to immediately have President Biden appoint 3 nominees to the Supreme Court and the US Senate to confirm them. The United States that we have known is no longer a Democracy.

But he played without a helmet, and the result was not too good.