text:  And that, of course, echoes what Mitch McConnell said three years ago when voting against convicting Trump in his second impeachment, which was ex-presidents can be criminally prosecuted. So we have this whole body of utterances and understandings, and the court just blows right past them on this vibe-based notion that it'd be bad if presidents were chilled in the exercise of the office by the possibility of criminal indictment. So there you have it.