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While the made up immunity prevents any precedent from ever being set.

Democratic norms are on a troubling trajectory in the US. We as a people should have addressed this trend long ago. Now we’ll have to countenance much more discomfort to right the ship.

Some people are going to be upset, but in the end we can’t live in a “papers please” society with no freedom of expression. You want to cancel someone? Go ahead. You want to socially ostracize them? No problem. All that’s just freedom of association. Reasonable constitutionalists can have no problem with any of that.

But when you start arresting people? That’s a bridge too far. If the supremes say the law is good with this then we need new law makers, new laws, and new supremes just to be sure.

You act as if it's even possible at this point to "right the ship." I can't see any way for the trend to actually reverse, unfortunately. It seems far more likely that things continue to get worse resulting in either totalitarianism or (most likely) a complete collapse.

Right. SCOTUS has created a Catch-22 with a twist of Kafka: one's right to redress only exists as long as someone else has successfully gotten the courts to decide that some other police violated the specific expression of the right one wants to exercise.

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