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Governor Shapiro Gives Powerful July 4th Message
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Supreme Court Immunity and the Case for a 28th Amendment
At 17:25 · chapter starts 16:45
Shapiro pulls back to the structural level: the Supreme Court has given Trump 'absolute and total immunity,' and so he operates without fear of legal consequence. Shapiro calls this one of the court's worst decisions in over a century. The solution, he argues, requires real reform — federal anti-corruption legislation, and potentially a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution specifically designed to protect the American people from a president who lacks integrity and ethics. He acknowledges this is a high bar but says everything needs to be on the table. The gilded Oval Office, he implies, is a symptom; the immunity ruling is the disease.
The Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision is one of the worst rulings in the past century, according to Shapiro. It has handed Trump a blank check to self-enrich from the Oval Office with no legal consequence — and Shapiro says a 28th Amendment may be the only fix.
To fund a tax cut for the wealthy, Trump's bill will strip healthcare from over 510,000 Pennsylvanians and food assistance from 140,000. About 150,000 have already lost their healthcare and 90,000 their SNAP benefits. This is not theoretical — it is already happening.
