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Now up: my thoughts on Trump v. U.S. In my view the Court majority went much too far in creating a zone of formal and practical presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. "This is not what the Framers wanted. It is not what we should want either." www.cato.org/blog/court-w...
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Walter, so what can be done? Would the court strike down anything short of an amendment to constitution?
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At face value it'd seem you'd need a constitutional amendment. In practice I think if the majority faced a sufficient outcry among persons they respected, they might trim or retreat on one or another point -- though that might come too late to vindicate the public interest in this case.
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