Finally, a judge writes what must be so if there is to be a rule of law:
"In a 75-page ruling on Monday, Judge Victor Marrero, also issued a sharp rejection of longstanding Department of Justice opinions that say a president cannot be indicted or criminally prosecuted while in office, calling their conclusions "not warranted" or backed up by the authority of the courts.
Marrero said Trump's claim of "absolute immunity" from criminal proceedings is counter to the intent of the framers of the Constitution, who rejected an executive with the limitless power of a monarch. Marrero described the president's argument as "repugnant to the nation's governmental structure and constitutional values.""
http://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/07/lawsuit-trump-tax-returns-037121
If only Mueller had known the most basic ancestral principles of freedom. That's what Magna Carta is. It's the king submitting to the law.
Yes, yes. I know the guys who wrote the Constitution had this rather odd idea of the powers of George III. But they were actually simply reaffirming what was already known about monarchical power, and that had been known for centuries. That it isn't absolute. That the law applies to kings and to commoners.
Without the rule of law, there's no freedom.
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