This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
James BovardIt is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
James BovardThe vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
James BovardGun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.
James Bovard