Right after the conviction of Donald Trump on felony charges last month, I sent a podcast out to my subscribers that revolved around one central theme: this won't end well for the Left.
Oh, I don't doubt that it felt good. I don't doubt that being able to call the former president a "felon" and use it in campaign ads, and smear every person who has right-leaning politics as aiding and abetting a known felon - I'm sure it all provided a momentary euphoric thrill. But so did obliterating the filibuster for judicial nominees.
Remember that? Remember when the late Senator Harry Reid became the darling of the political left in 2013 by blowing up the Senate rules that allowed individual Senators to filibuster a president's nominees to the federal courts? Reid took that historic step to prevent Republicans from halting some of President Obama's most radical nominees from securing crucial judicial posts with no term limits. In the short term it was a smashing victory for Obama, Reid, and company.
Then in 2017, President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, replacing Antonin Scalia. The Republicans used that Harry Reid rule to stop a Democrat filibuster.
Then in 2018, President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, replacing Anthony Kennedy. The Republicans used that Harry Reid rule to stop a Democrat filibuster.
Then in 2020, President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Republicans used that Harry Reid rule to stop a Democrat filibuster.
It seemed like such a good idea. But in the end, was securing a few radical federal district court judges worth the price of 3 conservatives on the Supreme Court, changing the direction of the high court for a generation?
That is what I commented in the podcast was going to be the legacy of this legal pursuit of President Trump. Going after your political enemies in television ads? That's expected. Going after them to try to put them in jail? That's changing the game.
But too many on the Left were enamored with the short-term elation of seeing Trump branded a felon. And man, if they could see him behind bars, what a rush that would be for the guy who got elected in 2016 on the "lock her up" chant, right?
Welp, it's a new ballgame now. And assuming the Supreme Court agrees with the left that presidents don't have immunity from prosecution, President Biden is going to be in big trouble:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said during an interview over the weekend that President Joe Biden could be open to criminal prosecution over the effects of his historic border crisis if the U.S. Supreme Court rules that presidents do not have immunity from prosecution.
Graham pointed specifically to the murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley. Riley was jogging at the University of Georgia when she was kidnapped, assaulted, and asphyxiated by an illegal immigrant named Jose Antonio Ibarra who struck her face multiple times with a rock, "seriously disfiguring her head."
'Laken Riley's murderer was paroled because they had lack of capacity in El Paso,' Graham said. 'So Joe Biden better hope and pray there's presidential immunity, because when he allowed the killer of Laken Riley to be released on parole because lack of capacity, I think he's subject not only lawsuit, but criminal prosecution, if there's not presidential immunity.'
Not that I think anyone needs to be reminded of this, but these are the tragic consequences of President Biden's foolish negligence and dereliction of duty on our southern border.
