In Bizarro World everything is backwards.
If you were a child in the 1950s you know about Superman and "Bizarro World." In Bizarro World all the Superman characters are distorted opposites of themselves. Earth is a cube. Superboy is a brat. Everything is the opposite of normal. Bad is good.
The U.S. Supreme Court has gone Bizarro World.
Justice Sam Alito:
"Now, if an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?"
Justice Sonya Sotomayor asks Trump's lawyer:
"If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military. . .to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?"
John Sauer responds: "That could well be an official act [and therefore immune from prosecution.]"
Robert Reich, professor, author, and former Secretary of Labor comments.
"Alito had the chutzpah to claim that if a president thought he might be prosecuted for whatever he did to cling to office — including inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol — he would likely keep clinging by any means possible. Ergo, according to Alito’s upside-down logic, the possibility of post-presidential prosecution could 'lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy.'
Hello? Surely Trump’s insurrection destabilized American democracy more than special prosector Jack Smith’s attempt to hold Trump accountable for it."
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Bizarro World is right!
Hitler would be very proud of all of them!