OK hands up if you had this on your bingo card for 2025:

[Sue U]

I thought you were a lawyer. As for me, all I have is a couple of civics books that I read alone in my log cabin on the Bayou, by the light of my coal oil lamp. But common sense should tell you, if not the books, that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, tried, convicted, and sent to prison. If that were allowed, any prosecutor in this country could bring the government to a standstill by selectively picking a grand jury and indicting the president. I'm sure that's not what the Founders intended. If it were, why would they go to all the trouble of having a president in the first place? For a president to be indicted, he must first be out of office—and even then, he may have some immunity, like a judge does.

If that were actually how the system worked (it's not), then surely it would have been attempted sometime in the last 237 years.

Get back to me after you've read (and understood) this, which itself is just the basics:

[MajGenl.Meade]

There's your book, lib. Come back when you have finished reading it.

[Sue U]

There's your book, lib. Come back when you have finished reading it.

From the publisher:

Constitutional Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions (American Casebook Series) 14th Edition
by Jesse Choper (Author), Michael Dorf (Author), Richard Fallon Jr. (Author), & 1 more

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The Fourteenth Edition continues in, while aspiring to update and enhance, a proud tradition. This is a teaching book, with at least two features that distinguish it from other books. First, because the editors believe that students benefit from sustained engagement with Supreme Court opinions, pivotal cases are edited less substantially than in many other books. Second, because Constitutional Law is an argumentative practice situated in ongoing debates, this edition follows its predecessors in exposing students to diverse perspectives in the scholarly literature. By conjoining large chunks of Supreme Court analysis with diverse perspectives from the scholarly literature, this edition should furnish instructors with the resources to teach a broadly intellectual as well as a doctrinally sophisticated Constitutional Law course. Not insignificantly, the book also strives for evenhandedness. It imposes no overarching normative or conceptual vision that teachers must either embrace or “teach against.”

Publication of this edition occurs at a time of substantial flux in constitutional doctrine, a reflection of the appointment of four new Justices between 2017 and 2022. Accordingly, some revisions from prior editions stand out. For instance, Chapter 6, on Individual Rights, has been substantially revised in light of recent decisions concerning abortion and firearms. Chapter 8, on the Religion Clauses, includes important recent cases from both the Court’s plenary and emergency dockets. Chapter 9, on Equal Protection, accurately depicts case law as this book goes to press, but major change could come in the wake of decisions by the Supreme Court in pending affirmative action cases.

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One of the authors, Michael Dorf, was a prof at my law school when I was there. He started when I was in my second year, so I had already taken Con Law with a different prof, but those who took his class thought he was brilliant.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I'd order it from Libby but I've been waiting since May for "Original Sin" and it looks as if it'll be another 16 weeks before it's available. But that's nothing.

I put a hold on "The Color of Magic" back in March and they reckon it's not gonna get to me until another 22 weeks. Can't figure out why it would take people so long to read such a small book. I started at 109th and in five months I've only reached 25th in line and there are 9 copies to peruse!

I figure it means that not all people finish Original Sin so it turns over quicker. And others must have eaten 8 of the Pratchett books.

[liberty]

There's your book, lib. Come back when you have finished reading it.

No thank you. I have my own books. I don't have room for anymore.

[Sue U]

There's your book, lib. Come back when you have finished reading it.

No thank you. I have my own books. I don't have room for anymore.

Well I guess you don't need to learn nothing more, brain done filled up.

[Joe Guy]

There's your book, lib. Come back when you have finished reading it.

No thank you. I have my own books. I don't have room for anymore.

I don't know, lib. I think if y'all was to move them fishin' poles out to the shed, ya might have room fer another bookshelf.

Jess sayin'....

[liberty]

There's your book, lib. Come back when you have finished reading it.

No thank you. I have my own books. I don't have room for anymore.

Well I guess you don't need to learn nothing more, brain done filled up.

No, that's not right. I'm currently teaching myself refrigeration, which is taking up most of my time, aside from my regular chores and other responsibilities, like refurbishing a rental house.

I have two books on refrigeration: one written at an engineering level, and the other at a technician level. Jeez, the engineering book is like an encyclopedia!

The technician-level book, Heating and Cooling Essentials by Jerry Killinger and Donna Killinger, is about half as thick, so I naturally chose that one. It's been taking up most of my time.

I just don't have the bandwidth to take on anything else right now. Once I finish this, I plan to get back into studying Spanish.

[liberty]

There's your book, lib. Come back when you have finished reading it.

No thank you. I have my own books. I don't have room for anymore.

I don't know, lib. I think if y'all was to move them fishin' poles out to the shed, ya might have room fer another bookshelf.

Jess sayin'....



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Well Joe, it’s really not that nice, cause you know, I couldn’t get the mud smoothed out real fine, so you can still see it through the paint on the left wall.

That’s guns. And there’s no electric light. I’ve got a coal oil lamp; well, I have to use kerosene now can't even get coal oil anymore.

I do have a good wood stove and a solid hand pump. And, in a modern marvel, I’ve got a sink, so we don’t have to throw the water out the back door anymore. Just pull the plug and it runs out into the bayou.

I’m living fine these days. Going to town’s a bit of a bother, it’s ten miles through the bayou. There’s a spot where it dries up during the summer and I have to pull the pirogue through the shallow water. But then it's only another three miles to the gravel road.

[Bicycle Bill]

No thank you. I have my own books.

... and while I've connected all the dot-to-dots in them, I still haven't finished coloring in the pictures yet...

-"BB"-

[Sue U]

Well Joe, it’s really not that nice, cause you know, I couldn’t get the mud smoothed out real fine, so you can still see it through the paint on the left wall.

That’s guns. And there’s no electric light. I’ve got a coal oil lamp; well, I have to use kerosene now can't even get coal oil anymore.

I do have a good wood stove and a solid hand pump. And, in a modern marvel, I’ve got a sink, so we don’t have to throw the water out the back door anymore. Just pull the plug and it runs out into the bayou.

I’m living fine these days. Going to town’s a bit of a bother, it’s ten miles through the bayou. There’s a spot where it dries up during the summer and I have to pull the pirogue through the shallow water. But then it's only another three miles to the gravel road.

OK, now that's pretty funny, I hope I haven't been trapped by Poe's Law tho.

[Joe Guy]

Well Joe, it’s really not that nice, cause you know, I couldn’t get the mud smoothed out real fine, so you can still see it through the paint on the left wall.

That’s guns. And there’s no electric light. I’ve got a coal oil lamp; well, I have to use kerosene now can't even get coal oil anymore.

I do have a good wood stove and a solid hand pump. And, in a modern marvel, I’ve got a sink, so we don’t have to throw the water out the back door anymore. Just pull the plug and it runs out into the bayou.

I’m living fine these days. Going to town’s a bit of a bother, it’s ten miles through the bayou. There’s a spot where it dries up during the summer and I have to pull the pirogue through the shallow water. But then it's only another three miles to the gravel road.

I hear ya, lib.

I reckon ya done already reconnoitered all the options and concluded another bookshelf ain't on yer list of what's gonna help yer situation.