“A stable, democratic society requires that a candidate who loses an election, even a close one, even a hotly contested one, leave office peacefully,” said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who added that if a president fears prosecution after they leave office, it could encourage to try to cling to power.
A criminal prosecution of Trump could "lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy," he said.
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Yale logic.