Crash Course: With Jan. 6 case, the Supreme Court could take America down the dark road to dictatorship

At a crucial crossroads for American democracy, the Supreme Court slow-walks Trump's immunity issue [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvangybWhmMXg5NC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTZXA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcmdvOHJvcG1uMi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTYmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNzRtZ242emhiNC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTZXA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMnFnYnN2bjlqZC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTZXA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvM3k5cjhkcHZlai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTZXA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNnA0OG1qcW9qNC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTZXA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsva2IxbjRocjl4cS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTZXA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo With Jan. 6 case, the Supreme Court could take America down the dark road to dictatorship From Thomas G. Moukawsher: Yes, broadly exposing the president to lawsuits or prosecutions for the thousands of judgment calls a president makes in the line of duty would cripple the presidency. But no one prosecuting Trump claims presidents should be broadly exposed to liability for their official decisions. Instead, the issue is framed by the Supreme Court’s 1982 decision in [Nixon v. Fitzgerald](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMnhyMHQ0ZHhmNS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTZXA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). It held that the president is immune from damages liability “for acts within ‘the outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” The court has never extended that limitation to the president’s responsibility for a crime. Moreover, the court [has never suggested](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcjd6dTAxdnB1Ny8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTZXA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) that a president who commits a crime unconnected to his official duties enjoys any immunity at all. 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They’re generally a cosmopolitan bunch interested in doing their own thing while looking the other way at the vagaries of humanity and people in general. Trump is such a comprehensively whiny, needy and malicious man-child that most Americans may feel they’ve been locked up with a wildly misbehaving toddler for nearly a decade now. But New Yorkers in particular have had to endure the “personal brand” he created comprising equal parts of privilege, bulls**t and taking advantage — all wrapped in hugely inflated TRUMPIAN self-regard masking obvious pathological insecurities — for half a lifetime now. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnwvbiP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveXkzNnJ4M3pjeC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXJiMzBteHc5NTYmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZdXjceBlDzoO4FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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