And if you look at it from a worldwide point of view, you could argue that it is the most important,
I think there’s a growing feeling in the Republican conference in the Senate that the isolationist path is not a good idea,
Well, he was grateful, because he knew that the big challenge was on my party,
We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being [held] accountable by either one.”
If a president can be charged, put on trial and imprisoned for his most controversial decisions as soon as he leaves office, that looming threat will distort the president's decision making precisely when bold and fearless action is most needed,
Justice Alito went through, step by step, all of the mechanisms that could potentially fail. In the end, if it fails completely, it's because we destroyed our democracy on our own, isn't it
I do think that there are layered safeguards that the court can take into account that will ameliorate concerns about unduly chilling presidential conduct,
You know how easy it is in many cases for a prosecutor to get a grand jury to bring an indictment. And reliance on the good faith of the prosecutor may not be enough in some cases,
If you don't have immunity, you're not going to do anything. You're just going to become a ceremonial president."
We can look around the world and find countries where we have seen this process where the loser gets thrown in jail,
For 234 years of American history, no president was ever prosecuted for his official acts,
Well, ‘attempting to defend the integrity of the election,’ I mean, that’s the defense,
We have taken the position that is official,
Petitioner conspired with another private attorney who caused the filing in court of a verification signed by Petitioner that contained false allegations to support a challenge. Private?"
After the RNC Chairwoman consulted the Campaign and heard that work on gathering electors was underway, she called and reported this information to the Defendant, who responded approvingly,
Three private actors, two attorneys ... and a political consultant helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding, and Petitioner and a co-conspirator attorney directed that effort,
The defendant called the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, asked her to gather electors in targeted states, falsely represented to her that such electors' votes would be used only if ongoing litigation and one of the states changed the results in the defendants' favor,
Petitioner turned to a private attorney, who was willing to spread knowingly false claims of election fraud to spearhead his challenges to the election results. Private?"
You're saying, ... that he couldn't be prosecuted for that, even after a conviction (in an) impeachment proceeding if there was not a statute that expressly referenced the president and made it criminal for the president?"
Then, on the source of immunity, it's not explicit in the Constitution?"