My colleague in the local American paper, where we both work, cried in the editorial office yesterday morning. “This is truly the end of America,” he said. – We're so fucked.
The reason for the mournful speech in the media is just issued, and the long-awaited decision of the ultimate Court, possibly decisive for Trump's further destiny and America itself.
On 1 July, the court ruled that American presidents defend a very broad immunity that in many cases relieves them of criminal work for actions taken at the time they held office. This will aid Trump avoid penalties for complicity in the 6 January 2021 Capitol attack after he lost the presidential election but did not intend to accept it, Inciting their constituents to rebel.
The decision of the court extends already very strong presidential power in the US. It's a work of art. Right-wing ultimate Court, whose 3 members – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – were appointed just by Trump during his presidency between 2016 and 2020. Thus, the court reversed the earlier lower instance ruling that allowed peculiar Prosecutor Jack Smith to prepare a series of charges against Trump. The prosecution's work will now be much harder.
The judges voted 6-3, after organization lines. 3 Liberal Judges– Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – voted against. Sotomayor ruled that the ultimate Court had just allowed the president to function as a king, completely outside the law.
The ultimate Court ruled that the "official actions of the president at the office" now have broad immunity, although specified immunity does not have any unofficial, unrelated, office-based action – both Trump and any subsequent president. However, even for activities not related to the office from now on, it is assumed to include presidential immunity.
As outraged by this decision, Democratic voters propose that inactive in office Joe Biden should order the death punishment for Trump for breaking the law and the American constitution – any with a gag and any rather seriously. In light of Monday's ruling, Biden could have done so in complete impunity.
And speaking of the constitution, the ultimate Court's decision is another demonstration of the tremendous power of its explanation of the 9 people who cannot be removed from office who hold him for life and de facto are law in the United States.
Trump, of course, is delighted. "This is simply a large win for us, for our Constitution and democracy," he wrote on social media. "I am arrogant to be an American".
And this is not the only highly controversial decision the ultimate Court has made in fresh days. There's been quite a few them recently, due to the fact that the court has been stalling until summertime break.
A major change in American law is this overturning 1984 ruling that ordered the fuel company Chevron to pay salaries to independent observers who monitored the company's activities. This is simply a major blow to the ability of state agencies to regulate and supervise businesses and to wider control of the national government over business, even if the company or corp is causing serious harm to the environment or public health. Here again the ultimate Court judges voted 6-3, loyally to the parties that nominated them.
In 1984, at the request of the fishermen, he followed the court to decide that Chevron had to finance the work of observers who would control its operations. This was, of course, an additional cost and little revenue. Now the ultimate Court overturned that sentence. This is, of course, another Conservative win, which is convinced that business should operate without government control.
The ultimate Court besides reversed the 2015 decision on pollution, which weakens the function of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The consequence will be the deficiency of action on industrial smog in U.S. cities. The clean environment and public wellness groups are devastated by this decision. So far, companies have had to send state authorities papers confirming that they are complying with regulations. From now on, all case of environmental contamination and harmful effects on public wellness will should be dealt with by a average judicial procedure, possibly lasting long years.
The EPA reported that as a result, in 2026 alone, around 1,300 Americans could die prematurely. In this 1 decision, justice Amy Coney Barrett joined a liberal minority; the court voted 5-4.
This is not over, due to the fact that the decision of the ultimate Court will besides change the situation of homeless people on American streets. There are quite a few these, because, as data from 2023 shows, over 653 thousand. In California, where it is usually warm, homeless people are very visible – they motion on pavements, under buildings and bridges. In San Francisco, the city centre is practically dominated by homeless people who cannot be encountered on virtually all street. San Francisco region is, of course, 1 of the richest counties in California and throughout the United States.
According to the decision of the court of 28 June, besides taken by 6-3 votes, cities and counties may punish people sleeping in parks and another public places, even if they do not themselves have a adequate number of vacant premises or if these premises are far besides expensive. This is the situation that frequently happens – and even people who simply work in their cars, for which parking in the designated place must besides be paid.
In Monterey County, another rich region of California, the income of people working in grocery stores and fast food chains seldom exceeds $40,000 a year, or about $1,300 a month. Meanwhile, the cost of the cheapest studio apartment, if any, is at least $1,500 a month.
"For any people sleeping on the street is the only option," commented justice Sotomayor, who evidently voted against. She besides added that many homeless people have intellectual wellness problems and others are victims of home violence.
The fresh law leaves 2 options for homeless people: not to sleep and not to close their eyes erstwhile they sit in a park or on a sidewalk or get arrested. The homeless shelters and resources allocated by federal, state or local authorities are completely inadequate to the scale of the problem. Legislative proposals supporting the construction of subsidised housing are incapable to break the opposition of the class having, with the contrast between the luxury of large, frequently uninhabited summertime estates and the poorness of society on the another side of the barrier being shocking, besides visually.
The ultimate Court's decision is so an attack on the poorest country in the world. no of them will be able to pay a city ticket; it was the deficiency of money that decided that they landed on the street.
At the same time, any members of the ultimate Court – under fire is peculiarly conservative justice Clarence Thomas, but besides his colleague, justice Samuel Alito – accept, in addition to their salaries, gifts and financial favors from American billionaires, themselves becoming millionaires, although they stay in public service until their death.
In consequence to the decision of the National Homelessness Law Center court calls on president Biden's administration to allocate additional resources to aid the homeless. The organization demands $356 billion to pay the monthly cost of housing for the poorest and to aid fight evictions.
