The thing is that they didn’t. If I understood the Supreme Court decision, what they did was saying that official actions of the head of state have to be tried by the legislature and not the courts, which is a common arrangement in other countries. The Congress is the one writing blank checks by refusing to impeach and convict Presidents based on party politics.
Ding ding! You got it!
This mess with Trump is another symptom of our Congress being more intent on taking
bribescampaign donations and retaining their personal power than handling the business of the nation.Yet fuckhead McConnell said that trump needed to be tried in court, not in Congress via impeachment. If neither branch will step up, it’s carte blanche and the game is over.
Not to mention an “official act” likely can’t be defined as intentionally ignoring the supreme courts ruling. Not only can Congress file impeachment and the Senate remove him, I don’t see how they couldn’t charge him with treason for doing so. Will they, no. But it should be fully within the parameters of what the supreme Court ruled
