New Common Ground Democracy essay on yesterday’s SCOTUS decision, with this subtitle: “The effort to prosecute Trump criminally is a consequence of the Senate’s failure to convict him in the impeachment case, and why did the Senate fail in this? The fear of being primaried.”

It begins: “You might think that the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision has little or nothing to do with the need to eliminate partisan primaries in congressional elections, but in fact they are very much related.”

The essay relies heavily on the important point about incentives that Kevin Kosar made in last week’s webinar. This incentives point is yet another key reason why in this “hair on fire” moment there is even greater need to eliminate partisan primaries.