June 17, 2023, 2:57 p.m. | mtait

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Editor's Note: The following was originally published on Matt Tait's Substack, PwnAllTheThings.


In the past week, many supporters of former President Trump have made an argument in his defense that his indictment violates the norm against prosecuting former presidents.


There is no such norm, and there never was.


Norms have gotten a bit of a bad reputation in recent years, and are not especially well understood by the public as a whole. So I want to start with a …

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