Executive Privilege and the Law

The Supreme Court will decide if “executive privilege” protects Donald Trump from prosecution for his actions as President of the United States.  If such an exemption were affirmed, any President would seem exempt from censure for raping children on the White House lawn!

The notion of the law precluding prosecution of the President for alleged illegal acts calls to mind Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist: “If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is a ass—a idiot!”