The Power of Absolution
One more entry for today. Last month, I was invited to give some remarks on 'absolute immunity' in relation to Trump v. U.S. at the American Society for Legal History annual meeting in San Francisco. It was one of my first public venues to explore what I now believe to be the source for this growing obsession among lawyers with the juridically 'absolute' character of the Presidency. This 'absolute power' is really a priestly power. And one good illustration of this power can be found in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: From the 1928 Book of Common Prayer
