The King of the Americans
The US Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity has given the president far more power than English kings had at the time of the American Revolution. The 1688-89 English Revolution had created a king bound by law – the same principle that underpinned the Declaration of Independence.
CHICAGO – In her dissenting opinion in Trump v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declared that with the majority’s ruling, “the President is now a king above the law.” In this, she is wrong: the majority opinion has given the US president far more power than English kings had at the time of the American Revolution.