A reader and I had a brief (but interesting, I think) conversation about presidential immunity:
Craig: If I had told you five years ago that the U.S. Supreme Court would be considering the assertion that every American was subject to our nation’s criminal statutes except for the most powerful person in the country, you would have told me I was insane.
Reader: But if the president doesn’t have immunity, he can be charged with crimes by his political opponents.
Craig: Perhaps he would do well not to commit crimes like the ones following the 2020 election, resulting in four independent grand juries’ handing down four different indictments containing 91 felony counts.
This concept (“don’t commit crimes“) seems to have worked well for the last 240 years. But then Trump, a career criminal, comes along, tries to overthrow the government, and now we may be looking at a dictatorship.
It’s hard to imagine how our Founding Fathers would have felt about this. They certainly could have made an immunity clause a part of the Constitution. Do you think they simply forgot? Our maybe they didn’t think it wise to install an authoritarian head of state.
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Virtually all top-ranking retired military brass view Trump as shown at left. On top of that, Hegseth has publicly fired all current generals and admirals who are not loyal to Trump, as the entire world watched the purge.
Doesn’t this affect the way the psychopath’s command of our nation is ultimately determined?
Keep in mind that “removing Trump from office” and “stop talking about Trump” are two different events.
It’s quite possible that a Democrat-controlled congress could remove him from power within the coming months. But think about the damage he’s done to our nation and the path to repair it. Think about the war, the trade deals, the economic policies, our relationships with our allies, the racism, our erstwhile position as leader in world democracy, and the degradation in public health, education, and environmental responsibility.
We’ll be talking about Trump as long as an organized human civilization is functioning on this planet.
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