Source: Washington Post
by Stephen S Trott
“The court majority’s convoluted answer to the charge that they have unjustifiably placed the president above the law is that the president is not above the law because it is the law itself that says he is above it. No matter how cleverly articulated, the result is the same: The president and his agents are free to break the laws that apply to every other person in the nation. This newly minted imperial power is difficult to reconcile with an explicit presidential responsibility in Article II of the Constitution to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.’ The court’s paradoxical holding is that the person we choose every four years to faithfully enforce our laws does not have to follow them.” (10/07/24)