People hold anti-Trump signs in front of the US Supreme Court ahead of the decision on presidential immunity this week. that a former president is immune from prosecution for “official” acts, the US supreme court was not interpreting the balancing provisions of the US constitution. It was instead enshrining in law a dangerous erosion of democracy and the rule of law, the postwar emergence of what historian Arthur Schlesinger called the “imperial presidency”.
Over the weekend he escalated his pledge to prosecute political opponents, circulating posts on his social media channel calling for the jailing of President Joe Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris, Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney, and his former Vice President Mike Pence, among others.