Let’s Put Trump Above the Law

SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein’s absurd piece in the New York Times is a measure of how fast we are slipping into autocracy.

Here at The King’s Necktie we are in the middle of a two-part essay about the incoming Trump administration’s horrific plan for mass deportations, but we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for a bonus blog post.

I rarely devote a whole essay to commenting on someone else’s work, and I’ve never done it before to push back, only to praise. But a recent opinion piece in The New York Times really caught my eye. It was by Tom Goldstein, the highly accomplished attorney and much-respected founder of SCOTUSblog, the premier online journal about the US Supreme Court. It was called “End the Criminal Cases Against Trump” and that title pretty much says it all.

Goldstein writes:

Democracy’s ultimate verdict on these prosecutions was rendered by voters on Election Day. The charges were front and center in the campaign. The president-elect made a central feature of his candidacy that the cases were political and calculated to stop him from being elected again. Despite the prosecutions, more than 75 million people, a majority of the popular vote counted so far, decided to send him back to the White House.

I know, right?