Maybe the voices urging caution shouldn’t have been stigmatized as riot apologists. Leonnig and Davis report that some lawyers in Garland’s department believed that while Trump “behaved reprehensibly by pushing a lie,” the evidence that he “plotted to defraud the American public seemed thin.” It was a “great story,” one said, “but not a great criminal case.”Bad cases make bad law, as the saying goes. The first case criminalizing a president’s official acts should have been overwhelming and airtight. Instead, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department jammed the Supreme Court with a legally vulnerable prosecution of Biden’s top political rival on a rushed election timeline. It was foreseeable that this would disturb the justices. Their sweeping immunity opinion, in turn, has given Trump leeway to take more radical actions in his second term.
Congratulations, Democrats: you created a king.
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