President Trump’s Immunities

All those who hold or have held the office of president are protected by the immunities that the Supreme Court has just vouchsafed.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Chief Justice Roberts at the Supreme Court building, October 7, 2022. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

One of the memorable moments in President Trump’s 2016 campaign is the sneering question posed to him at the Democrats’  national convention — “Have you even read the U.S. Constitution?” Seems he has, we’d say, and never more so than this morning as the 45th president was found by the Supreme Court to have a better understanding of the Constitution than the 46th president, his attorney general, and an appeals circuit.

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