No US citizen is above the law…
by Jack Grant…not even the President.
32 years ago, during Watergate, the system worked. A president learned that election does not confer immunity from the law, and the White House is not a royal palace. Will the law work this time? Are we still, as a people, determined that our elected leaders will be subject to the law?
-Michael Reynolds at The Mighty Middle
And yet:
Q: Are you predicting a coming military dictatorship? And that the American people would stand for that?
Gore Vidal: They’ll stand for anything. And they will stand for nothing.
The oath of office of the President of the United States swears to uphold and defend the Constitution with no equivocation, no lawyerly arguments.
Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
A third occurrence and it is time to look much harder at what exactly is going on.
We are past time for the close examination.
Do the math.
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