Former president Donald Trump is facing ninety-one criminal charges as he seeks to win back the White House in 2024.
The indictments are the latest battle in a roughly six-year crusade against Trump that first sought to remove him from power through the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, then with espionage charges and impeachments, and that now aims to block him from becoming president again.
The hypocrisies of their effort to convict Trump and block him from holding office again reveal that the motivations are purely political-not born of some commitment to a higher moral or legal principle.
Natural law theory says that law exists regardless of the dictates of states.
The political class prefers legal positivism, which separates law from morality.
According to legal positivists, law is what the sovereign political authority says it is.
The way to get Trump is not to show he did anything immoral or wrong but to prove he technically broke some rule made up by members of an earlier political class.
The problem hasn't been finding crimes committed by Trump but finding crimes unique to Trump.
They are appalling crimes of which Trump is also guilty.
The crimes he's facing charges for are far less serious, but they are more unique to Trump.
By refusing to bring charges against Trump that could also be brought against the presidents they like, the political class has shown that its aims are political.
https://mises.org/wire/lets-examine-some-real-crimes-committed-presidents
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