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 Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDonald Trump's presidency has served as a wake-up call that our Constitution and our laws were not designed to handle an authoritarian like him. And Thursday's Supreme Court hearing on presidential immunity was yet another reminder of that fact.
It's dangerous to try and divine the court's opinion based on oral arguments; however, the consensus seems to be heading in a direction that says that a president should be immune from prosecution over "official," but not private, acts. On the surface, this seems like a reasonable precedent. After all, we don't want a banana republic where former presidents are unfairly targeted for prosecution after they leave office.
Still, this foreboding thought remains: It is virtually impossible to untwine "official" acts from personal crimes. Someone like Trump can always lie about his motives.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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