Could Trump really end up in jail? According to history, it’s unlikely, writes JoshuaMZeitz
has observed in recent days. But if former heads of state face retaliatory prosecution each time a change of parties occurs — as happened several years ago in Brazil, where a conservative government jailed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in an effort to bar him from running for office again — democratic rule of law crumbles. It is unsurprising that Trump himself has likened his indictment to a political witch hunt, despite mounds of evidence to the contrary.
Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon after Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal. | AP Photo Whatever Burr’s intentions, President Thomas Jefferson, a longtime foe, suspected a “deep, dark, and wide-spread conspiracy.” He ordered Burr arrested and brought to trial for treason. A drawing depicts the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis by Union soldiers on May 10, 1865. | John Henry Bufford via the Library of Congressthe government indict Davis for treason? His attorneys thought they could, and they welcomed the charge, as they were eager to argue that secession had always been a legal act, and that Davis could not have committed treason against the U.S. because he effectively renounced his citizenship upon becoming the Confederate president.
In the 1860s, Supreme Court justices served as the chief judges of the federal circuit courts, and Virginia fell under the jurisdiction of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, a perennial officer seeker who was, according to a contemporary, “possessed by the desire to be President even to the extent of honestly believing that he owed it to the country and the country owed it to him.
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