Former French President
Nicolas Sarkozy was criminally convicted of corruption charges and sentenced on Monday. The case may or may not be a sign of things to come for former U.S. President
Donald Trump. Either way, the legal development serves as proof that “First-World countries” can, do, and should punish their top leaders for wrongdoing even after they have left office.
Since the election of 2016, the word most often used to describe the Trump presidency was “unprecedented.” So much of what Trump is, what he did, and what others did in his name simply had no analogous predecessor. Ironically, it was ultimately this lack of precedent that procured Trump a second acquittal after impeachment.
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FILE. Letter writer says, It is a strange feeling when you wake up in a country where those elected to govern no longer stand for the rule of law or even have any principles. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
It is a strange feeling when you wake up in a country where those elected to govern no longer stand for the rule of law or even have any principles. A nation once renowned for its democratic governance has now been brought low by a political party desperate to remain relevant.
Sen. Portman’s legalistic tangle fails to explain his vote to acquit Donald Trump
Updated Feb 21, 2021;
Posted Feb 21, 2021
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, leaves the chamber after the Senate voted to consider hearing from witnesses in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP
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Here’s what Portman, who isn’t running for a third term, said:
”The question I must answer is not whether President Trump said and did things that were reckless and encouraged the mob [that invaded the Capitol]. I believe that happened. The threshold question I must answer is whether a former president can be convicted by the Senate in the context of an impeachment. .
We often learn most from people who don t share our worldviews. German Carl Schmitt, a reactionary critic of democracy, provides uncanny insight into the uncivil war of opinion after the 2020 election. Constitutional democracies, Schmitt argues, seek a foundation in legality, that is rule by law, bu.