Tilting the Scales at the Supreme Court

3/2/24

There was a time when Americans agreed that no man is above the law — not only agreed but embraced that concept as an incontrovertible principle central to the American identity. Not so anymore. These days, that concept that had differentiated us from most of the rest of the world is at risk of becoming an empty slogan that even our courts seem unwilling to protect.

Of course, I’m talking about the Supreme Court deciding to hear the ludicrous claim that Trump should be immune from prosecution in the January 6th trial. If there were ever a proposition in direct contradiction to the idea of no one being above the law, this is it. Who can forget the hypothetical presented to Trump’s lawyers who argued at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking if a President who orders an assassination of a political rival should be free from prosecution? And his lawyers answered that a criminal case should only be permissible following a conviction in an impeachment trial. The Supreme Court appears to be willing to consider and potentially embrace this preposterous perspective. Ouch!

Irrespective of the public having seen and heard Trump in real time pressuring election officials to “find” votes for him, participating in an effort to assemble fraudulent electors, to egging on an assault of the Capitol and then do nothing to quell the…