Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement “everyone has a right to a trial to prove innocence” was a thumb in the eye to the Age of Enlightment concept “innocent until proven guilty.”
Lord Acton and his observation “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” would love her.
Robert Denbow
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