What Trump’s lawyer is really advocating

America is not the Weimar Republic in its final days, and Trump is not Hitler, but …

Friends,

Trump’s lawyer, John Sauer, argued on Tuesday (before the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit) that a precondition for a president to face criminal trial is impeachment by Congress.

As Doug Gilbert noted in the comments to yesterday’s Substack letter, a rogue president could avoid impeachment by simply imprisoning members of Congress who’d oth…