Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH; photo, left) is a Yale-educated lawyer, but not a Supreme Court justice, so he make the rules.
Which is just as well, because he has a funny idea of what the rules should be.
Appearing on “Face the Nation,” a Sunday talk show, Vance declared “he believes presidents have legal immunity for actions they commit while in the White House, but declined to go as far as to say President Biden should not be prosecuted for unspecified criminal activity,” The Hill reported on June 30, 2024 (read story here).
Did you get that? Trump can’t be prosecuted because of presidential immunity, but Biden can be prosecuted despite presidential immunity. I’m a lawyer, and that doesn’t sound like legal analysis to me; it’s partisan ranting.
Which isn’t surprising. Vance wrote a book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” that launched him into politics. He’s evolved into a fawning Trump sycophant in the mold of Lindsey Graham, a totally Trump-owned senator from South Carolina, and at this point like Graham is 100% a mouthpiece for Trump, but with more brains and polish.
“I want people who commit crimes to face the appropriate response in law,” he said on the show. Which is fine as a general principle. But then he added, “The problem that I have, Margaret, is not with which Democrats should prosecute which Republican and vice versa; it’s let’s get out of the prosecuting of people based on their politics.”
Yes, he said that right after he declined to say Biden shouldn’t be prosecuted. Instead, he said, “that decision would be up to a future attorney general,” knowing full well that Trump intends to appoint a partisan attorney general who will go after political opponents.
Vance graduated from one of America’s best law schools, worked in Silicon Valley, and now he’s a MAGA quisling. Trump is a black hole, corrupting everyone who falls into his gravitational field, and Vance is its latest victim.