We’re in a really dangerous place:
- The system runs on norms, and democracy depends on them
- One party radically rejects norms and revels in transgression
- The other party hasn’t figured out a response beyond stammering “Uphold the norms”
- Voters don’t care about abstract norms and proceduralism
- The system runs on norms, and democracy depends on them
- One party radically rejects norms and revels in transgression
- The other party hasn’t figured out a response beyond stammering “Uphold the norms”
- Voters don’t care about abstract norms and proceduralism
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Jonathan Ladd
A good time to point out that the Dept of Justice policy of not indicting sitting presidents is not in the Constitution anywhere. Search for those words and you will not find it. Nor obviously will you find any words saying former presidents are immune. It's all extra-constitutional.
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Sadly Trump did not get a mandate to govern, he got a license to burn it all down.
Virtually every rampart against the "one party" destroying norms stems directly or indirectly from the Ds. Credit where due.
if they couldn't indict a sitting president, then they sure as shit couldn't elevate agnew to POTUS after 'dealing with' nixon's criminality through impeachment. its ALL bogus.
this is ALL entirely new legal territory w trump, and SCOTUS pretty much put a fence across it all last summer with that hackneyed immunity 'decision'