Trump's Latest Courtroom Defeats Are a Really Big Deal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "They reaffirm the idea that all people are equal under the law.
45% : The two landmark rulings represent fresh statements of principle in the long-running and complicated fight over how presidents can be held accountable by the law.
44% : "The rulings by the Court of Appeals and Judge Chutkan on Friday offer important confirmation of the principle that a former president is not above the law," former federal prosecutor Harry Sandick told VICE News.
33% : Trump had tried to claim that as a former president he should enjoy "absolute immunity from criminal prosecution."
26% : Former President Donald Trump has a long history of arguing that he can't be held legally accountable for the outrageous, rule-bending things he does because he was the president -- an argument that has often sounded like an attempt to declare himself above the law.
14% : Mueller concluded he could not even reach an opinion about whether Trump broke the law.

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