Immunity for Trump—Or for Everyone? by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, July 15, 2024

Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.

So now it seems that the 2024 presidential election will be decided by the American voters rather than the prosecutors. This site is not devoted to political controversy, but insofar as Catholic social teaching favors the right of the people to vote, the faithful should welcome that result, regardless of partisan preferences.

I make this observation on the day that a federal court dismissed a special prosecutor’s case against Donald Trump, accepting what the highly partisan Washington Post had airily dismissed as a “long-shot argument” by Trump’s lawyers. Earlier this month the Supreme Court tossed out another case against Trump, accepting the former president’s argument that he should be held immune from criminal prosecution. …

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