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    Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Court

    Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.
    by Akhil Reed Amar Jul 02, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Damon Winter / The New York Times / Redux

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    Forget Donald Trump. Forget Joe Biden. Think instead about the Constitution. What does this document, the supreme law of our land, actually say about ​​lawsuits against ex-presidents?

    Nothing remotely resembling what Chief Justice John Roberts and five associate ​justices declared​ in yesterday’s disappointing Trump v. United States decision​. The Court’s curious and convoluted majority opinion turns the Constitution’s text and structure inside out and upside down, saying things that are flatly contradicted by the document’s unambiguous letter and obvious spirit.​

    Imagine a simple hypothetical designed to highlight the key constitutional clauses

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