In a pair of 7–2 decisions handed down on Thursday, the Court ruled that the President’s financial records can be reviewed by prosecutors, and that the Presidency does not give Trump the “absolute immunity” he claims it does.
Urgent questions of our public life involve crowds: their power, their perils, their inevitability. So do questions of what forms our society ought to take in the near future.
The Attorney General’s ham-handed firing of a U.S. Attorney captures the confusing combination of corruption and incompetence that has become a hallmark of the Trump Administration.