미국에 몰려오는 폭풍: 트럼프, 살인 면책을 위해 대법원을 장악하다(America's gathering storm: Trump stacks Supreme Court to get away with murder) > 호주뉴스

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to grant Donald Trump immunity from prosecution for 'official acts' demonstrates how the former President has the judicial system in his pocket.

George Grundy continues his series on the collapse of American democracy in the lead-up to the 2024 Election. Read the first part here, part three here, part four here and part five here.

DONALD TRUMP has spent a lifetime abusing America’s court system, getting sued, counter-suing and using the threat of legal action and his immense wealth to force submission.

Trump is constantly engaged in a battle to keep consequence at bay, sometimes without success. Trump’s university was found to be a fraud, he was revealed to have stolen from a kids' cancer charity, his company was found liable for criminal tax fraud and his CFO was gaoled, twice.

Trump’s White House was, similarly, a hotbed of nefarious criminals, grifters and bad actors, and many of those closest to Trump have also found themselves charged with crimes or gaoled.

It’s almost impossible to keep up when it comes to Trump Administration criminality, but towering above all else are the events of 6 January 2021. Trump was found by the bipartisan 6 January Committee to have been primarily responsible for the worst attack on the U.S. Government since the Civil War. Over 1,200 of the participants that day have been charged or convicted, yet the U.S. justice system has proved so ponderous and unfit for purpose that the author of the violent coup attempt is somehow free to run for president again.