The President is not above the law.
And the system of separated powers designed by the Framers has always demanded an energetic, independent Executive.
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The exception may be cases where the president is acting as party leader or candidate for office.
But her decisions could then be challenged again by Trumps legal team, adding further delay to the proceedings.
Orders the Navys Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?
Organizes a military coup to hold on to power?
Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon?
Immune, immune, immune.
The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably.
In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
Trump heralded the ruling as a victory.
He wrote on his platform, Truth Social, BIG WIN FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY.
PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!
With its delay, the Republican-appointed 6-3 Court gave the defendant a political gift.
Those are questions that now will be left to lower courts to decide.
That has been a symbol of those who denied the 2020 election results.
