A reader and I had a quick (however fascinating, I feel) dialog about presidential immunity:
Craig: If I had informed you 5 years in the past that the U.S. Supreme Courtroom could be contemplating the assertion that each American was topic to our nation’s felony statutes aside from probably the most highly effective individual within the nation, you’ll have informed me I used to be insane.
Reader: But when the president doesn’t have immunity, he might be charged with crimes by his political opponents.
Craig: Maybe he would do properly to not commit crimes like those following the 2020 election, leading to 4 unbiased grand juries’ handing down 4 totally different indictments containing 91 felony counts.
This idea (“don’t commit crimes“) appears to have labored properly for the final 240 years. However then Trump, a profession felony, comes alongside, tries to overthrow the federal government, and now we could also be a dictatorship.
It’s arduous to think about how our Founding Fathers would have felt about this. They actually may have made an immunity clause part of the Structure. Do you assume they merely forgot? Our possibly they didn’t assume it sensible to put in an authoritarian head of state.
