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• Not even Supreme Court justices should be above the law, certainly not above basic rules of conduct that maintain integrity and the public’s confidence.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
• No one — no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States.
  — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
• No one, not even a president, is above the law, Democrats railed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• In such a realm, the tenet that no one is above the law is a mere platitude, if not an inanity.
  — Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• Texas Democrats said no one is above the law, even a former president, and pushed for calm.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The thrust of that decision: No American is above the law.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2024
• What Jordan is saying with this hearing is that Trump is above the law.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2023
• No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence.
  — Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• That, too, seemed like a no-brainer at the time, and the court duly held that Clinton could not be treated as above the law.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• The result made visually real what had become a cliché in the case: No one was above the law.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• The president should not be above the law but rather be a model of observing it.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
• In my administration, no one, in my view, no one is above the law.
  — Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
• In America, no man is above the law — including Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 June 2024
• On Thursday, the jury has concluded that nobody is above the law.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• At the center of the legal problems now engulfing Donald Trump and Hunter Biden is the refrain that no one is above the law.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
• In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 1 July 2024
• Chris Christie, who is hinging his whole campaign on being the anti-Trump, also said that no one is above the law.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• The days of Disney controlling its own government and being placed above the law are long gone.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
• The justices must meet this moment and determine if a president is above the law.
  — Claire B. Wofford, The Conversation, 24 June 2024
• The system was designed to ensure no person or entity would be above the law.
  — Michael Jainchill, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2024
• Former President Donald Trump is still not above the law.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• Democrats, meanwhile, largely released cautious statements that said while no one is above the law, Trump will have his day in court.
  — Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• And to essentially ask, is Hollywood still above the law?
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• Otherwise, that president becomes above the law and the founders would have never subscribed to that idea.
  — ABC News, 20 Nov. 2022
• Roberts in his majority opinion said the dissenters had gone too far in saying the president is above the law.
  — Patrick Marley, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• But his days as a larger-than-life billionaire operating above the law may now be drawing to a close.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
• The Magna Carta is a 13th century English treaty which established that nobody was above the law.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 10 May 2024
• Grijalva said after Trump's conviction that his guilty verdict shows that no one is above the law.
  — Sabine Martin, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
• Finkelstein said the government will stress their obstruction case is based on the fundamental idea that no one is above the law.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 12 June 2023
• There was broad celebration that the political system worked—that no one was above the law.
  — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024