After the ruling, many people took to X, formerly Twitter, to gripe about the ruling and speculate on its ramifications.
Many people feared the ruling put the country closer to a monarchy than a democracy.
I just want to take a step back and say that I think the Supreme Court just fundamentally altered the structure and nature of democracy in America. It awards the president the measure of power and immunity that is much, much closer to a king or emperor than an elected official. https://t.co/HB0Tvb9qvS
The entire scope of American history has been to escape from the rule of monarchs with divine immunity—and now this Supreme Court turns back 250 years of history.
The SCOTUS conservative majority put a stake through the heart of "textualism" and "originalism." Nowhere in the Constitution does the text include immunity for POTUS. And no credible argument can be made that the Founders intended the POTUS to have such unfettered power. https://t.co/54qx72bgoX
Today's SCOTUS ruling tears down one of the first principles of American democracy: that no man is above the law. To say the president has immunity from prosecution for any acts committed in their official capacity while in office is a wide open invitation to dictatorship. And in… https://t.co/F5eWktQXGa
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) July 1, 2024
Although the news was obviously good for Trump, some suggested President Joe Biden take advantage of the ruling.
The Supreme Court just gave Biden unequivocal immunity to order the military to take action against Trump.
It’s OFFICIAL: The Supreme Court has just disgraced itself by ruling that Presidents do have SOME immunity from prosecution for committing what they deem official acts.
President Biden’s FIRST act under this new reality should be to postpone the election indefinitely until we…
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) July 1, 2024
if President Biden declared today's Supreme Court ruling to be an assault on democracy and ordered Chief Justice John Roberts imprisoned indefinitely, would that be an "official act?"
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