I know I’ve answered this before:
President Trump filed a federal lawsuit against the Manhattan district attorney Thursday, his attorney said, seeking to stop him from subpoenaing Trump’s tax returns in a probe of hush-money payments during the 2016 election.
In the suit, Trump argues that District Attorney Cyrus Vance is conducting a criminal investigation of him, which he contends is not allowed under the Constitution.
That’s because the Constitution prohibits any prosecutor from investigating any sitting president for any criminal wrongdoing, he says.
If that were permitted, Trump says, it could give local authorities too much power to hamstring a president’s actions. “All you need is one prosecutor, one trial judge, the barest amount of probable cause, and a supportive local constituency, and you can shut down a presidency,” Trump’s complaint says, quoting law professor Jed Shugerman, according to a copy of the lawsuit posted online by CNN. [WaPo]
Frivolous lawsuits get thrown out, biased judges get fired, trivialities don’t need his personal attention.
And if there’s something substantive, that’s another reason to have a Vice-President, now isn’t it?
I don’t care if then-Judge Kavanaugh disagrees:
His suit also quoted an article by Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh — written in 2009, when Kavanaugh was an appeals court judge — saying that “a President who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as President.”
Good God, man, the alternative, which supplies the foundation for a dictator, is far, far worse than some morally puny President distracted by the potential punishments for his misdeeds.
