Right Now, President Biden Needs To Feel Free To Do Some Righteous Things, Even If They’re Illegal

Supreme Court Justices Gave Presidents Unprecedented New Powers: So Go Ahead, Make Their Day

Note: I originally wrote a piece very similar to this over the summer. But now the need for President Biden to use his remaining time in office to take some dramatic actions is even more pressing.

President Biden needs to do at least one obviously illegal act, in plain sight. It doesn’t even have to be “bad illegal”, it can be “good illegal.” But simply acting like the Supreme Court’s ruling that should shield him from being prosecuted for anything he does while in office is ridiculous, even though it is, and vowing to be above it, is just dead wrong.

Because what the Supreme Court is overlooking in its decision to protect Trump by giving him unimaginable immunity is that immunity should also apply to the current president, should he choose to use it. And use the crap out of it, he should!

Chief Justice Roberts’ super sober argument that if presidents didn’t have immunity for acts while in office they might be afraid to do stuff in a timely way and might tit-for-tat prosecute former presidents of the other party, is so focused, it becomes incredibly…