American opinion: Only dictators have immunity from criminal acts while in power
Allowing the most powerful person in the nation, if not the world, to operate without any fear of prosecution is a recipe for a dictatorship.
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Allowing the most powerful person in the nation, if not the world, to operate without any fear of prosecution is a recipe for a dictatorship.
From the editorial: "It would be wrong to think of an expeditious ruling ... as an anti-Trump gesture; a ruling that allowed Trump to go on trial before the election could politically benefit the former president if he were acquitted."
There is no originalist case for presidential immunity.
The contributions came during the final week for gathering signatures to put abortion access on the ballot this year.
It seems unlikely that the Supreme Court will embrace Donald Trump’s outrageous claim that as a former president he enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions that he allegedly