Trump’s NY Indictment Looks Political. That Threatens Democracy.

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When the Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia in May of 1787, delegates reportedly shuttered the windows of the State House and swore secrecy so they could speak freely. To that end, we’ll never really know if they truly intended, as some suggest, for the 2nd Amendment to protect citizens’ rights to wield an AR-15 in a preschool.

That said, we don’t have to wonder what our founding fathers, having just successfully fought off the British monarchy, meant about the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power. It was, George Washington declared, “what will separate this country from every other country in the world.” Which is why when someone attempts to undermine that principle, so core to our nation’s founding, they must be prosecuted.

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