{"id":29501,"date":"2020-07-11T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T21:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29501"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T21:53:54","slug":"the-bulwark-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/11\/the-bulwark-works\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bulwark Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News and pundits everywhere have already commented on the important part of the <strong>SCOTUS<\/strong> decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/read-the-supreme-court-s-opinion-trump-v-vance\/fdc436bc-94f1-4945-89e7-c9b8efeb36fc\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_5&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Trump v. Vance<\/em><\/a>, in which the District Attorney of New York subpoenaed accounting firm <strong><em>Mazars USA<\/em><\/strong> for the President&#8217;s tax returns, and Trump sued to quash the subpoena on the grounds that &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; a sitting President enjoys absolute immunity from state criminal process under Article II and the Supremacy Clause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that appalling assertion &#8211; and Justice Kavanaugh&#8217;s assertions, prior to his appointment to SCOTUS, that President&#8217;s are far too important to actually subject to investigation, it was quite reassuring to see this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given these safeguards and the Court\u2019s precedents, we cannot conclude that absolute immunity is necessary or appropriate under Article II or the Supremacy Clause. Our dissenting colleagues agree. JUSTICE THOMAS reaches the same conclusion based on the original understanding of the Constitution reflected in Marshall\u2019s decision in Burr. Post, at 2, 5\u20136. And JUSTICE ALITO, also persuaded by Burr, \u201cagree[s]\u201d that \u201cnot all\u201d state criminal subpoenas for a President\u2019s records \u201cshould be barred.\u201d Post, at 16. On that point the Court is unanimous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve argued before, the President remains a citizen subject to the same laws as everyone else. That <strong>SCOTUS<\/strong> unanimously agrees on this point, even if the final outcome of that particular case was 7-2, is reassuring that some obvious bedrock principles are shared across the political and legal spectrum. There is no blanket immunity available, nor is it justified.<\/p>\n<p>If the President is thought to have committed a serious crime, that&#8217;s why we have vice presidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News and pundits everywhere have already commented on the important part of the SCOTUS decision in Trump v. Vance, in which the District Attorney of New York subpoenaed accounting firm Mazars USA for the President&#8217;s tax returns, and Trump sued to quash the subpoena on the grounds that &#8230; &#8230; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/11\/the-bulwark-works\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29502,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29501\/revisions\/29502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}