Meanwhile the US Supreme Court is still working
Via Truthout is a reminder the US Supreme Court has rulings to make:
On May 12, the Supreme Court will have an opportunity to rebuke or endorse Trump’s pretensions to monarchical grandeur when it hears oral arguments in three cases that have the potential to redefine the nature and scope of presidential power.
The cases before the court are Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP; Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG; and Trump v. Vance. In the first two, the president is trying to block congressional subpoenas seeking access to his personal financial records. In the third, he’s asking the court to block a subpoena issued by a New York City grand jury, and to accord him unprecedented “absolute immunity” from state criminal investigations.
in the abstract there may be a good reason to shield the president from criminal prosecution. but having seen what Trump is doing to “checks and balances” it may be time to expose the president to whatever prosecutions the courts don’t reject as frivolous.
i would expect that the president has the resources to defend himself without placing unreasonable demands on his time.
the prosecution of Bill Clinton was frivolous, but we seem to have got through it okay. and though i am no longer so supportive of Clinton as I once was, my (new) disagreements with him are within the bounds of normal political disagreement.
Trump is a whole ‘nother matter. But then, so is the current Senate and apparently most of the Congress.
Vain Glorius Bastard needs perp walked.
The first test for the presidency is whether the presentment clause can function; that is, is the President able to sign, veto or ignore a bill presented.
Other than that, the President swears to faithfully execute the public’s law. Here the test is whether or not the public’s law is being administered according to the terms if that law (not the President’s arbitrary whims).
We govern ourselves, a governing form “wherein the legislative authority necessarily predominates.” The public’s law arises from the representative institutions.
It is truly amazing that I am now worried about what the Court will say here.