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mystic_belmont posted...

We cannot accept former President Trump's claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power - the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count.

At bottom, former President Trump's stance would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches. Presidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the President, the Congress could not legislate, the Executive could not prosecute and the Judiciary could not review. We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter.

Like, I understand perfectly why people fast results with these cases, or that most of Trump's bullshit should be met with a reaction of "I'm not even going to dignify that with a response because it's so obviously wrong / corrupt." But it's worth the wait to give our legal system the time to craft an iron-clad ruling such as this that gives the GOP and / or bad faith actors virtually no room to 'ackshually' their way around the issue.