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The name of the case is
“Donald J. Trump v. United States.”

☝🏼Read that again☝🏼, and you will understand why myself and so many others will never vote for trump. It’s not that Joe/Kamala is so good, it’s not just because I don’t like him, it’s that he’s so bad!
Project 2025 just got another leg!
Please read this👇🏻, from Heather Cox Richardson, then read Project 2025!
Thomas Pain

July 1, 2024 (Monday)

Today the United States Supreme Court overthrew the central premise of American democracy: that no one is above the law.

It decided that the president of the United States, possibly the most powerful person on earth, has “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for crimes committed as part of the official acts at the core of presidential powers. The court also said it should be presumed that the president also has immunity for other official acts as well, unless that prosecution would not intrude on the authority of the executive branch.

This is a profound change to our fundamental law—an amendment to the Constitution, as historian David Blight noted. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that a president needs such immunity to make sure the president is willing to take “bold and unhesitating action” and make unpopular decisions, although no previous president has ever asserted that he is above the law or that he needed such immunity to fulfill his role. Roberts’s decision didn’t focus at all on the interest of the American people in guaranteeing that presidents carry out their duties within the guardrails of the law.

But this extraordinary power grab does not mean President Joe Biden can do as he wishes. As legal commentator Asha Rangappa pointed out, the court gave itself the power to determine which actions can be prosecuted and which cannot by making itself the final arbiter of what is “official” and what is not. Thus any action a president takes is subject to review by the Supreme Court, and it is reasonable to assume that this particular court would not give a Democrat the same leeway it would give Trump.

There is no historical or legal precedent for this decision. The Declaration of Independence was a litany of complaints against King George III designed to explain why the colonists were declaring themselves free of kings; the Constitution did not provide immunity for the president, although it did for members of Congress in certain conditions, and it provided for the removal of the president for “high crimes and misdemeanors”—what would those be if a president is immune from prosecution for his official acts? The framers worried about politicians’ overreach and carefully provided for oversight of leaders; the Supreme Court today smashed through that key guardrail.

Presidential immunity is a brand new doctrine. In February 2021, explaining away his vote to acquit Trump for inciting an insurrection, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who had also protected Trump in his first impeachment trial in 2019, said: “Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office…. We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation, and former presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”

But it was not just McConnell who thought that way. At his confirmation hearing in 2005, now–Chief Justice John Roberts said: “I believe that no one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. The president is fully bound by the law, the Constitution, and statutes.”

In his 2006 confirmation hearings, Samuel Alito said: “There is nothing that is more important for our republic than the rule of law. No person in this country, no matter how high or powerful, is above the law.”

And in 2018, Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate: “No one’s above the law in the United States, that’s a foundational principle…. We’re all equal before the law…. The foundation of our Constitution was that…the presidency would not be a monarchy…. [T]he president is not above the law, no one is above the law.”

Now they have changed that foundational principle for a man who, according to White House officials during his term, called for the ex*****on of people who upset him and who has vowed to exact vengeance on those he now thinks have wronged him. Over the past weekend, Trump shared an image on social media saying that former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), who sat on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, was guilty of treason and calling for “televised military tribunals” to try her.

Today, observers illustrated what Trump’s newly declared immunity could mean. Political scientist Norm Ornstein pointed out that Trump could “order his handpicked FBI Director to arrest and jail his political opponents. He can order the IRS to put liens on the property of media companies who criticize him and jail reporters and editors.” Legal analyst Joyce White Vance noted that a president with such broad immunity could order the assassination of Supreme Court justices, and retired military leader Mark Hertling wrote that he was “trying to figure out how a commander can refuse an illegal order from someone who is issuing it as an official act.”

Asha Rangappa wrote: “According to the Court, a President could literally provide the leader of a hostile adversary with intelligence needed to win a conflict in which we are involved, or even attack or invade the U.S., and not be prosecuted for treason, because negotiating with heads of state is an exclusive Art. II function. In case you were wondering.” Trump is currently under indictment for retaining classified documents. “The Court has handed Trump, if he wins this November, carte blanche to be a ‘dictator on day one,’ and the ability to use every lever of official power at his disposal for his personal ends without any recourse,” Rangappa wrote. “This election is now a clear-cut decision between democracy and autocracy. Vote accordingly.”

Trump’s lawyers are already challenging Trump’s conviction in the election interference case in which a jury found him guilty on 34 counts. Over Trump’s name on social media, a post said the decision was “BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN AND WISE, AND CLEARS THE STENCH FROM THE BIDEN TRIALS AND HOAXES, ALL OF THEM, THAT HAVE BEEN USED AS AN UNFAIR ATTACK ON CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. MANY OF THESE FAKE CASES WILL NOW DISAPPEAR, OR WITHER INTO OBSCURITY. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife was deeply involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, also took a shot at the appointment of special counsels to investigate such events. Thomas was not the only Justice whose participation in this decision was likely covered by a requirement that he recuse himself: Alito has publicly expressed support for the attempt to keep Trump in office against the will of voters. Trump appointed three of the other justices granting him immunity—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—to the court.

In a dissent in which Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson concurred, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that because of the majority’s decision, "[t]he relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."

“Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop. With fear for our democracy,” she wrote, “I dissent.”

Today’s decision destroyed the principle on which this nation was founded, that all people in the United States of America should be equal before the law.

The name of the case is “Donald J. Trump v. United States.”

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I remembered to take a before pic of a client today!!
We did an outgrowth retouch, a tad bit of color correction, and to finish it off perfectly, a Keratin Complex Express Blowout!!

As excited as I am, I can’t say it any more eloquently than my friend Sue Faina did, so here’s what she said about Rodan+Fields newest innovation!!

“Every time a new product launch happens, Consultants and customers go wild! Monday, May 7 was no different!!! Except that for this launch I was invited to join a wonderful group of women and we got to try it!!!!!

This product isn’t your ordinary lipstick, lip
gloss or plumping product that doesn’t offer results. It’s skin care for your lips! If you didn’t already know the names behind this brand, Dr. Katie Rodan and Dr. Kathy Fields are two world renowned dermatologists. They are the same two that created Proactiv back in the 90s. They started Rodan+Fields in high end retail in 2002. They quickly climbed to the number one selling brand at Nordstrom and in 2007 made a leap no one had ever made before and pulled their products from under the glass department store shelves and in March of 2008 launched into the Direct Sales arena. The rest is history as they say!

R+F has now been the number one premium skin care brand in North America for several years running. R+F created Lash Boost and it’s been the number one lash serum in the U.S. for 4 years in a row (so far). Also to add to another area dermatologists treat is the scalp and R+F launched hair care for all types of hair in 2022 and 2023. Treat your scalp (which is skin) and when it’s healthy-so is your hair!

Well lips are skin! So instead of putting out “just another lip product”, years of research went into how to treat your lips to healthier skin! In addition to adding color, R+F Plumping Lip Oil hydrates, plumps AND protects! It’s available in 4 colors (so far). Pink, Peach, Coral and Berry. They look gorgeous on all skin types and colors. As a matter of fact, I saw in person how each color when applied by various people looks different on each person based on their coloring! It feels great on and guess what? It’s works over time like all of Rodan+Fields products do to achieve even better results!

It launches to customers on June 1. So let me know if you want to be on my VIP list! I’ll take care of you! And as always like with other new products, you will LOVE the launch specials!”

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Oh boy, have I been waiting for this new product!!
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Again, forgot to take a before pic!!
I just get so excited to begin!!

I so often forget to take a before pic, and then even when I do, I forget to post them! Regardless, here’s a photo dump for your enjoyment!!

Just so you know!!

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Yesterday we celebrated six extra, and incredible years with some of the nurses who made it happen, our son who donated his cells, to return the gift of life, and some very special family + friends!

So many wonderful souls here Thelakehouse, but we did miss one, Christopher Rios, next time we hope you can make it, we certainly did miss you!

As you may know, Brian survived a rare blood cancer in 2018, with two Stem Cell Transplants, at UC Davis Cancer Center, and last November an open heart surgery.
So much to be thankful + grateful for!!

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