It took nearly a month to get it, but we finally have it.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on presidential immunity.

Donald Trump's last best attempt to evade a criminal trial for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

It is unanimous ruling written by all three federal appeals court judges overseeing this case

to Biden appointees and one appointee of President George H. W. Bush.

And those judges spell it out in no uncertain terms.

Donald Trump's claim that a former president cannot be criminally prosecuted is worthless.

Quoting from the ruling, it would be a striking paradox if the president, who alone is

vested with the constitutional duty to take care that the laws

be faithfully executed, were the sole officer capable of defying those laws with impunity.

We cannot accept former President Trump's claim that a president has unbounded authority to

commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power,

the recognition and implementation of election results.

Nor can we sanction his apparent contention

that the executive has carte blanche

to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count.

At bottom, former President Trump's stance would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the

president beyond the reach of all three branches of government.

Now, no one ever really thought that the appeals court was going to agree with Donald

Trump's arguments in this case, except for maybe Donald Trump.

It will be Bethlehem in the country.

It's a very bad thing.

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