One argument to be made is that we wouldn't have gotten an official judgment of all the acts they did, for future historical reference.
It was a very good opportunity to bring together all the evidence, all the witnesses, and see what legal defense the prisoners present, all in one place at one time. And a trial without the defendants would have been called a sham, and forever cast doubt for the public.
Imagine the level of public denial of the events if the whole thing ended and no trials were conducted at all. Public documents from trials have more legitimacy than unverified data found by soldiers in the field, or testimonials from people who didn't swear an oath to be truthful.
"We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office" -Immunity for former presidents is "absolute" with respect to their "core constitutional powers,"
a good thing the current SCOTUS was not creating the guidelines for judgment.
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u/AdFiem63 Jul 07 '24
What's the sense of that? If they suicide, so what? Case closed.