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8. It's worse than you think
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 02:25 AM
Apr 2024

'It's much worse': Yale historian says SCOTUS is flirting with making Trump more than king - Rawstory

"A king can be subject to law. Even George III was subject to law. The American Revolution was justified by the notion that he had overstepped the law," he added. "This discussion of immunity is something else. The justices are not discussing any constitutional system at all, including a constitutional monarchy."

according to the professor, the justices "are instead flirting with the idea that a single person can be outside any constitutional system, outside the rule of law as such.

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