The Supreme Court rendered the presidency a dictatorship. Remember that at the ballot box

“You’re not better than anybody, and nobody’s better than you.” That’s what my grandmother used to say. Grandma came to America as a little girl; one of the things she loved about this nation is its premise that all are equal, with equal rights and responsibilities before the law.

America is not a perfect union. However, what makes us a great nation is that we’ve sought to become a more perfect union throughout most of our history by expanding rights and equality.

Last month, the Supreme Court of the United States upended that by declaring one person in America is better than the rest of us. One person in America, it ruled, should have more rights than other citizens, and can therefore be immune from prosecution.

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If even one person can be raised above the rule of law, it makes them "better" than others in the eyes of the law. Do you want to live in a nation where anyone is considered "better" and therefore exempt from laws the rest of us must follow? Can democracy survive and thrive in a nation where one "better" person can curtail the rights of others, or even take the lives of others, and remain immune?

Or do you believe that America should remain a place where we are all equal before the law? A place — like my Grandma used to say — where “You’re not better than anybody, and nobody’s better than you”?

Democracy is on the line this November; vote to protect it.

Dianne Douthat

Wayne

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: SCOTUS immunity ruling dictatorship