1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

Voters elected Ds by a 13 point margin. Voters believe no one is above the law, and no one is better than someone else in the eyes of the law. Absorb that, and live it. On July 1, 2024, in Trump v. United States,the Supreme Court ruled that “a President has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions performed within the outer perimeter of his official responsibilities” shattering the fundamental principle of U.S. democracy: that no one is above the law. Since returning to office, Trump has taken advantage of that immunity by turning the machinery of the federal government against those he perceives as his enemies. But now, with the prospect of investigations into behavior that might fall outside a president’s official duties, Trump is trying to convince the American people that enforcing the rule of law is a partisan attack. In fact, it is the opposite. The true rule of law is nonpartisan. It is the fundamental rule under which the American government was conceived. “[W]here, say some, is the King of America?” Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense, the 1776 pamphlet that convinced British colonists in North America to cut ties with their king and start a new nation. “[I]n America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”