 but imposed a high bar for that prosecution, as Scott Boba reports. Tom Wolfe is the director of democracy initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice in New York, a progressive nonprofit law and public policy institute. This new ruling from the court pulls a new constitutional rule from thin air. Trump is now positioned to renew his push to dismiss the charges against him and evade accountability for his crimes against our democracy. And as a result, the rule of law in America is in tatters today.