Future Presidents can avoid handing this enormous power to prosecutors by simply not doing crimes…
What is this bullshit? Trumps status as a criminal defendant could distract him “if he wins the presidency?” Get the fuck out of here.
Trumps trials should be resolved before Election Day. And his conviction should disqualify him from office, even if his deplorables manage to successfully rig the election for him this time.
This author is a fucking clown.
I think the author is a bot.
tl;dr: One gigantic slippery slope argument where he worries future presidents will begin factoring in the possibility of going to prison if they break the law.
My rejoinder: Good. They should be worried about that.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County, Georgia, added Atlanta to New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami in bringing criminal charges against the former president.
Instead of catching their white whale, progressives may unleash a spiraling expansion of the criminal justice system that could cripple the presidency and exacerbate our political divisions, not solve them.
If Trump were to win the presidency in November 2024, he could order special counsel Jack Smith to drop the federal cases against him for mishandling classified documents and seeking to stop the certification of the election results on January 6, 2021.
At the very least, defending against one or more state criminal investigations will draw on the time and resources that a president could—and should—instead devote to carrying out his constitutional responsibilities and protecting national security.
Article II of the Constitution gives presidents “Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in cases of Impeachment.”
Prosecutors understood that preserving executive energy and independence justified leaving presidential misdeeds to the political process or even impeachment.
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