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Breaking with GOP, top Conservative lawyer says Trump can stand trial
Former US president Donald Trump is charged with incitement of insurrection in connection with the Jan 6 assault on the US Capitol.PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedFeb 8, 2021, 2:58 pm SGT
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Shorter Republican argument: You can't indict Trump while he's president or impeach him after he's president. That argument definitely pushes that he's above the law. He [.]
The U.S. Constitution, especially as amended after the Civil War, was written to secure individual liberty under limited government. Drawing on the vision first set forth in the Declaration of Independence, it authorizes a federal government of delegated, enumerated, and thus limited powers, which must be exercised consistent with our natural and moral rights. Unfortunately, with the rise of Progressivism at the end of the 19th century, the Constitution has been read increasingly as authorizing largely unlimited government and the modern administrative state. Cato’s scholars are dedicated to addressing the many aspects of that problem and to restoring America’s promise of liberty under limited government.
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Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
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