A quick bit of linguistic history to start us off today:

* The acronym SCOTUS — for Supreme Court Of The United States — has been in use
since the 1870s.

* POTUS — for President Of The United States — came into use two decades later,
in the 1890s.

* And now, in 2024, we sadly have to add KOTUS — for King Of The United States
— to our vocabulary.

That’s because the Supreme Court, with its profoundly misguided ruling in Donald
Trump’s immunity case, has in effect given U.S. presidents sweeping power to
break the law with impunity — the kind of power heretofore associated with
foreign despots, dictators, and kings.

In other words, SCOTUS mangled POTUS into KOTUS.

So the American people have a choice to make — a choice that could not be more
critical.

Do we consent to be subjects of a de facto king?

Or do we fight to overturn the Supreme Court’s absurd immunity ruling and to
restore the foundational principle that no one — not even, especially not, the
president of the United States — is above the law?

It’s obvious: We have to overturn this ruling.

And the most surefire way to do that is with a constitutional amendment.

Now, winning a constitutional amendment will not be easy.

It is not supposed to be easy.

But does that mean we should just roll over and let our country devolve into a
dictatorship?

Hell.

No.

And here at Public Citizen, we know something about “not easy.”

Just to give you one example we’re sort of famous for: Today, nobody would buy —
and no company would try to sell — a new car without airbags. That was us. We
battled Detroit for decades. And we didn’t stop until we won.

Here are the initial steps in our just-launched campaign for a constitutional
amendment that would overturn the Supreme’s Court’s disastrous ruling in Donald
Trump’s immunity case.

* Through our unparalleled lobbying expertise and by mobilizing Public
Citizen’s 500,000 supporters, we will keep the pressure on members of
Congress — in the House and Senate alike — to push the amendment through the
legislative process.

* We will work with our allies in the Not Above the Law coalition to support an
amendment and to activate their supporters. (Public Citizen helped found the
Not Above the Law coalition — a diverse, nationwide group of over 100 partner
organizations — back in 2017 in recognition that holding Trump accountable
would require a coordinated, sustained movement.)

* Calling on our 50-plus years of success engaging the media in vital causes,
we will generate ongoing press focus — across traditional print and broadcast
journalism as well as leading social media platforms — on how extreme the
ruling is and how an amendment is key to counteracting it.

We said above that winning a constitutional amendment will not be, and is not
supposed to be, easy.

One way that plays out comes down to this: democracy can’t be saved with good
ideas, hard work, and a never-give-up attitude alone.

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