K. Calloway
Atlanta
“I feel like the Supreme Court, giving absolute immunity to the President, is pretty insane in a sense, because the president is human and with them granting immunity, it’s allowing the President to do whatever [he wants] as long as he can back it up within [the confines of] the job. And the way some Presidents work, they can justify what they do, even when they’re wrong. So I think that’s when we start thinking about that human trait coming into your job. It’s pretty bad since there is no telling what they can justify. Bombings, assassinations, all of that.”
Miyana Sarver
Atlanta
“I believe that giving the President absolute immunity is pretty much ushering us into dictatorship. It’s a very dangerous game, giving someone immunity to the law. It can bypass a lot of wrongdoings on the part of the people. I’m a very sci-fi fantasy person myself. And any time that the president, king, or queen argue amongst themselves, it hurts the poor and little people. So, I think that giving a president absolute immunity would just hurt the poor. It’ll make the poor poorer and make the rich stronger. And they can overturn any rule if they have immunity. So it’s just a bad idea, like always.”
Jasmine King
Atlanta
“My opinion on presidential immunity going forward is that it would only be exercised during active war or a nuclear response situation. I feel that any actions eligible for presidential immunity would not have occurred within the 50 states of America. It’s our common hope that an act of war or a nuclear response is a circumstantial situation. So it was almost never. But given a situation, it’s okay to have the President turn the other cheek to save our lives.”
Jahfari Booth, Sr
Atlanta
“I agree with it… America has achieved success through the presidents’ leadership in that way. And I feel like it’s just an isolated situation. He [Trump] is being targeted. We need to change the system completely by getting somebody in power so that we don’t have to think that way, maliciously. So yeah. It’s okay. I agree with it. I agree that it’s for the improvement of America. America has been involved in many things that presidents should have been prosecuted for, but unfortunately, they weren’t. So, to wrap it up, why isolate this individual when there are a lot more Presidents who have done extreme acts against mankind, against different races, and different countries as well? So I leave it like that.”