Donald Trump - Donald Trump indictment shakes timbers of oldest democracy
So many unthinkable firsts have occurred since Trump was elected to the White House in 2016; so many inviolable lines have been crossed
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So many unthinkable firsts have occurred since Trump was elected to the White House in 2016; so many inviolable lines have been crossed
New York Times: So many unthinkable firsts have occurred since Trump was elected in 2016.
Locking up former leaders on specious, politically driven charges may be common in the world’s autocracies, but some of the most advanced democracies have not shied away from putting their leaders on trial for crimes.
For more than two centuries, American presidents were effectively shielded from indictment. But the case against former President Donald J. Trump breaks that taboo and sets a new precedent.
In a 9 February 2022 hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Crisis Group’s Chief of Policy Stephen Pomper recommended legal reform to reinvigorate Congress’s decision-making role in the current legal and structural status quo on U.S. counter-terrorism operations.