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Opinion: Should a five-time loser with grand juries be president?

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Jackie Calmes: By now, two months before the presidential election, we should have seen a verdict in the case against Donald Trump .

She says the Supreme Court dallied for half a year before issuing a surreal ruling in July .

Calmes says a revised indictment against Trump in the Jan. 6 case should be front and center in the campaign for the White House .

She asks: If reelected, he could thwart the rule of law, not uphold it as the oath of office demands.

Smith strained to steer clear of Trump 's supposedly official acts, in keeping with the Supreme Court's warped ruling.

Out, for example, are accounts of his vile efforts to force Justice Department aides to lie about election fraud.

But campaign advisors should be fair game for the prosecutors, and the indictment still recounts Trump ’s refusals to accept their assertions.