In 2016, Donald Trump said he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone” without losing “any voters.” That hypothetical has yet to be tested. But we are going to find out whether Trump being convicted of thirty-four felony counts of falsifying business records will stop him from being elected to a second term.

Perhaps it will. There’s some polling evidence that many voters would consider a felony conviction to be a major liability. On the other hand, we’re in the ninth year of Trump as the lightning rod at the center of American politics, and my rough count is this is about the millionth thing that liberals were convinced would stop him in his tracks. It would be unwise for them to count on it.

Either way, it’s appalling that presidents who break the law almost always get away with it. Setting the precedent that presidents can be criminally convicted like anyone else is a good thing.