Random thoughts on Donald Trump v United States
This ruling seems to me to display amazing stupidity on the part of the USSC. Because it would seem to be contrary to their best interests, and people are always supposed to act in their own (perceived) best interests.
Therefore I am forced to conclude that my own estimation of the Court's best interests does not align with theirs, and I have to figure out what I'm missing. Several possibilities suggest themselves, all depressing.
The simplest is that they are stupid, and think that with this ruling, they have arrogated to themselves the right to hold the President accountable, by determining what is and is not an official act. This is amazingly shortsighted if true, since Court accountability is necessarily widely separated in time from whatever action the President takes.
Or, it may be that religion or ideology has compelled them to make a ruling that buttresses the authoritarian position of the President. If so, that would explain the apparent irrationality of the ruling, since religion or ideology need not be rational.
Or, it may be that the people who own them instructed them to vote this way, again possibly for religious or ideological reasons, but this time with the idea of strengthening the stranglehold of the wealthy on the levers of power.
In both the latter cases, it pre-supposes confidence that the White House will never be occupied by anyone whose interests do not align with those of the Court or the wealthy who own them. Which again suggests that they are remarkably stupid, or that they know something we don't.
I find it interesting that some of the language of the ruling echoes, almost word-for-word, some of the arguments DJT has made for Presidential immunity. A fourth possibility would be that, like many an evil genius before him, Mr Trump has so enthralled some members of the court as to make them his devoted disciples, who will do or say anything he instructs them to. But their previous rulings on several cases which involve Mr Trump would seem to disprove such an explanation.
Or it could be that DJT and the Court are merely puppets repeating the scripts given them by some other individual or organization, who has a decided agenda which it intends to implement/force on the American people. This agenda would include an authoritarian tyranny which enacts laws with no consideration of the wishes of the people, and often in direct opposition to those wishes.
This individual or organization may be either extorting conformity by some fear or favor, or it may be that the desires of its puppets conform voluntarily to its own desires. Again, desires do not require rationality, so a decision need not be rational to reflect them.
Of course, we know such an organization exists, and we know their agenda: Project 2025. The question is how much influence, and how much leverage, they have. The ruling of the Court could suggest that it is great.
-- Mal