The Supreme Court’s reasoning didn’t occur to anyone in 1974.
is, go back to 1974. That was the last time a former president faced a realistic chance of prosecution for crimes committed while in office. The justices gave Donald Trump a degree of deference that was inconceivable for Richard M. Nixon a half-century ago – and one that no one on any side ofon Aug.
This risk of prosecution was why, a month after Nixon resigned, President Gerald Ford gave “a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States” that he may have committed as president. If the law in 1974 were what the court is saying that it is now, Nixon would not have needed a pardon.
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