Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20543
January 30, 2025
Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett -
It is now only 10 days since President Trump took power, and already your decision in Trump v. United States (2024, on Presidential Immunity) is looking even more foolish than on the day it was announced (July 1, 2024). In 10 days the President has (allegedly) committed the following unlawful acts:
In just over a week's time, the President of the United States has indeed turned "the Oval Office into ... the seat of criminal activity in this country" [allegedly], as predicted by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on April 25, 2024 (Oral arguments, Trump vs. the United States (2024), pages 62-63). Justice Roberts, your breezy claims of "fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals" (Trump vs. United States (2024), page 40) are no match for the reality in which this country now finds ourselves. Are you seriously saying that Trump currently blocking government spending directives from Congress is just the kind of "vigorous Executive that our Constitution envisions."? (Justice Thomas, page 1) The majority decision of you six SCOTUS Justices violates the Spending Clause of the US Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1).
Your written decision (T vs US 2024) makes this bizarre statement on page 41: "But in addressing that question [presidential prosecution] today, unlike the political branches and the public at large, we cannot afford to fixate exclusively, or even primarily, on present exigencies." Nobody at my company would implement a solution to a problem that fails today, but might work someday. Furthermore, six months after the SCOTUS immunity decision, Justice Roberts is now very concerned about the present exigencies as he complains over talk of ignoring the Court's decisions (Roberts warns against ignoring Supreme Court rulings as tension with Trump looms, December 31, 2024; https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/31/politics/john-roberts-year-end-report-supreme-court-rulings/index.html).
If you six Justices are worried about people ignoring your court decisions, then don't fabricate legal concepts (presidential immunity) that are not found in the US Constitution; in Trump vs US (2024) you just told Trump that he can break the law with impunity. Don't usurp the Legislature's role in crafting balanced solutions to the nation's present and future problems. The lower courts are doing a better job than you are. The United States would be in a better place now and in the future if you had let the DC Circuit Court of Appeals' well-reasoned and Constitutional decision stand.
Carl Drews