It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.
Especially when it is all projection. The current Republican party would indeed try to frivolously prosecute a former president, Dems would send a sternly worded letter
On the evening of Thursday 6/27/24 Trump clearly stated at the CNN debate that he INTENDED to frivolously prosecute a former president. Two former presidents, in fact, because he indicated he would prosecute both Joe Biden AND Barack Obama.
So yeah.
