Jefferson Davis & Donald Trump: Parallel Legal Cases?
Historian Jill Lepore suggests the prosecutions are similar
Donald Trump is not the first ex-president to undergo prosecution. "After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?" asks Harvard historian Jill Lepore in a piece for The New Yorker. She argues that the failure of the American governm…
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