If Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege are a threat to the Constitution, as his critics now claim, what are we to make of the unprecedented bill of attainder against Mr. Trump now moving through the New York Legislature? Every President in memory has claimed executive privilege, but New York Democrats want to hand over the state tax returns of one man, the U.S. President, to Congress. Our friends at the New York Sun call this an act of “constitutional nihilism,” and they’re not overstating the point. Encouraged by...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 08, 2019 22:52 UTC