The Trump Immunity Decision is Even Worse Than You Think

Giving the back of the hand to John Adams’s contention that the Constitution established a “government of laws, and not of men,” the Supreme Court now holds that a president is all but immune from prosecution for any act that might fall within “the outer perimeter” of a president’s official duties. The purported originalists on the Court seemed only too happy to jettison the admonition of the founders, enunciated in a brief filed by the Brennan Center on behalf of eminent historians, that no one is above the law.