It's easy to understand why Ford pardoned Nixon and why Obama didn't act on the GW Bush administration violating the Convention Against Torture and its Federal enabling legislation. But this is a half century that we've cultivated the practice of Presidents being above the law and it needs to end.

Reposted from Daniel Drezner

A post-Trump Truth and Reconciliation Commission ain't gonna be enough to rectify the injustices of these four years. I want criminal prosecutions.

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