Donald Trump\u2019s allies may be gearing up for a legal showdown, but the battlefield has already shifted beneath their feet.<\/p>\n
By winning a sweeping Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. United States,<\/p>\n
Trump helped cement a doctrine of presidential immunity so broad that it now likely shields his fiercest rival,<\/p>\n
Barack Obama, from the very prosecutions Trump hints at. Decisions on intelligence,<\/p>\n
Russia probes, and national security\u2014no matter how controversial\u2014fall squarely within \u201cofficial acts,\u201d now walled off from criminal courts.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean the questions disappear; it means they migrate. Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s referrals,<\/p>\n
Jim Jordan\u2019s suspicions about John Brennan, and renewed scrutiny of the Steele dossier will play out in hearings,<\/p>\n
headlines, and history books\u2014not indictments. Accountability has been rerouted from judges to voters, from prosecutors to Congress.<\/p>\n
In protecting the presidency from political prosecutions, the Court may have guaranteed that the final verdict on Obama,<\/p>\n
Trump, and their legacies will be rendered not in law, but in memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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