(New York)
Next year’s U.S. presidential election has taken a dramatic turn with the arrest in New York City of former president Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsely submitting business accounts.
Trump is the first president, or former president, to be charged with a criminal offence in the Republic’s nearly 250-year history. The significance for Americas 80 million Catholics is that if a jury of New Yorkers finds Trump guilty, his attempt to become re-elected to the White House in November next year will come to an abrupt end because anyone found guilty of a felony—a federal crime—is automatically disbarred from standing for federal office.
