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We Are Now a Dictatorship

The Day Democracy Died

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David DeBatto
Jul 02, 2024
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Future Americans Swearing an Oath to the U.S. President

With the 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States on July 1, 2024 giving American presidents virtually complete immunity from criminal prosecution during and after their term in office for even the most serious and heinous crimes imaginable, America has now become what we all feared would it would become should Donald Trump be elected in November: The United States of America is now a dictatorship in all but name.

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For anyone who believes I am being hysterical, I suggest they get off their misinformed and arrogant MAGA perch and actually read the SCOTUS opinion and dissenting arguments. Here are some important excerpts of that opinion from Chief Justice Roberts:

“We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power requires tha…

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