When giving Trump his get-out-of-jail free card in Trump v. United States, John Roberts implied that it was hysterical to think that a president might take the rationale for this decision as a free pass to commit crimes:
They were most concerned that a future president would use his position to prosecute his predecessor. Suffering from a bad case of Fox News Brain Rot they apparently believed that’s what Biden was doing despite the clear evidence that Trump had committed crimes and they were being investigated by sober, dispassionate members of the Justice Department.
Look where that’s gotten us. Trump knows he has a license to commit any crimes he wants, is selling pardons and doling them out to anyone willing to commit crimes on his behalf and is persecuting his political enemies. Excellent job.
As Matt Ford commented on Blue Sky:
Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
Over and over again, every single day.