SCOTUS and presidential immunity for any crimes

Re “Biden’s attack on SCOTUS” (Aug. 4):

The most betrayed I’ve felt by my own country in my lifetime was when SCOTUS decided a president is immune to prosecution for carrying out official acts while in office. Who decides what is official and what is not? If it’s up to the president, then he/she can decide that every act is official, and therefore, immunity always applies. And since the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, Trump, if reelected, can order the army to physically break up citizens demonstrating against his actions. And if the demonstrators disobey orders to disband, the president can order them jailed, and resisters to be billy clubbed. You might think this is far-fetched, but what’s to stop it from happening? If the president calls the armed forces into action against U.S. citizens, according to the Supreme Court, he is allowed to do so with complete immunity.

— Robert Archerd, Rancho Palos Verdes

Harris picks Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota for veep

Like former Vice President Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz of the Gopher State also is known as a happy warrior. I don’t know how Republicans are going to label Walz, but I do know this: It will be weird. How could it be anything else? They want to outlaw all abortions, end electric car mandates and ban books in public libraries.

For a party that professes to celebrate individual freedom, the GOP clearly relishes the opportunity to invade people’s privacy and attack their personal choices. If Hubert Humphrey was alive today, I think he would agree with Tim Walz when he says, “That’s weird.”

— Denny Freidenrich, Laguna Beach

Chevron Corporation headquarters has plans to leave California

After 145 years, the headquarters are moving to Texas. The company has been fighting with the state for years about more and more restrictions on oil refining, which raises the price to produce.

This move will relieve the company of those restrictions by forcing them to truck in gasoline refined in other states. It remains to be seen whether this outsourcing will actually reduce the price of Chevron gas at the pump.

Nice work to the Legislature and governor for increasing the deficit — “not.”

— Hayden Lening, Claremont