When the United States Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that presidents are entitled to the presumption of immunity for all official acts, it was Donald Trump’s conduct that was at issue. His opponents were quick to foresee nightmare scenarios of a Trump unbound, returned to office as “a king above the law”, as dissenting Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor put it.

Yet Trump has been democratically chosen, winning both the electoral college and (for the first time) the popular vote. Within the US, fears over what he might do with a second term have coalesced around the document known as Project 2025, with its promise to round up illegal immigrants, abolish entire government agencies, dismantle a........

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