Crash Course: If you're a (Republican) president, they let you do it

The Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can be a dictator Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvaWh0dGNlM2hiNi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdCZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvYzBlbXJmNG01OC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvanlieWRiZW1zcy8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvd2p4eTY0cWc4Yi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbWljN3ZhZ203MS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvYTd3d2wzdmVoNS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~ The Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can be a dictator Amanda Marcotte: [Most of the media coverage of Monday's Supreme CourtÂ](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdHZwNTFlenM1Ny8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdCZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~)decision was focused on the impact it could have on the felony charges against the former president for planning and attempting a coup in 2020, which led to the insurrection of January 6, 2021. The news on that front is bad. As legal analysts quickly detailed, the six Republican justices shot down many of the charges [special prosecutor Jack Smith included](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdjBvOTI2aWFjby8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdCZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) in his indictment, and even more broadly eliminated most of the evidence Smith could otherwise bring to court. Even if the case somehow survives, figuring out how to try it now will eat up so much time there's no chance of a trial before the election in November. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZXFmaGc5aXB2bi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdCZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMGgwOHJ4Nzlwci8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMW85eGo0d29uMC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbnVmMTZ1MWh4bi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoZmLFP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveW82MXdiMGptdi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9cXd5OGt1eWxhdFcDc3BjQgpmfcbdg2YFcXtxUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~ Day two of Donald Trump's dictatorship From Chauncey DeVega: One of the great failures of the mainstream news media in the Age of Trump (and especially its hope-peddlers, institutionalists, and professional centrists) is treating aspiring dictator Donald Trump and the right-wing’s plan(s) to end multiracial pluralistic democracy as a hypothetical or something imagined and fantastical instead of as a real and present and growing danger. 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