No one is above the law except Trump

 

Special counsel Jack Smith sought permission from U.S. courts to abandon the two federal cases against President-elect Donald Trump, likely putting an end to two lengthy and historic investigations. Smith asked U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to dismiss the election interference charges brought in D.C., saying he “stands fully behind” the allegations but acknowledges Justice Department guidelines prohibit prosecuting a sitting president. An hour later, Smith filed a separate motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, asking to drop Trump as a co-defendant from the special counsel’s appeal of a ruling in the classified-documents case. U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon dismissed that indictment this summer, breaking with legal precedent to agree with Trump’s lawyers that Smith was unlawfully appointed…

-Washington Post

In his 3rd annual address to Congress in 1903, Theodore Roosevelt said: "No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.”

The Rule of Law is a principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated and equally enforced.