Ormai dovremmo saperlo. I tribunali non fermeranno Trump e il suo genere.

“The ruling last week that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally misused millions of euros in European Parliament funds has upended the country’s politics,” writes David Broder, an expert on the European far right, in a guest essay for Times Opinion. But this is a bigger story than Ms. Le Pen, he says. “Embezzlement and polarizing legal decisions aren’t new, of course. But the crisis of Western democracy, most fundamentally, is about voters’ perception that decisions are taken out of their hands. Whatever the merits of each case, courts banning candidates is more likely to speed this sentiment than to slow it. Wrongdoers should be held to account whatever their political popularity. Yet unfavorable court decisions, we should know by now, aren’t going to stop the world’s Trumps.”

Read the full essay [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opinion/le-pen-france-far-right.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k4.4gNb.CglaAnvjhBgg&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

Then maybe someone should stop him themselves

De toute façon, Trump s’est vu accorder par la cour suprême une immunité totale pour tout ce qu’il pourrait accomplir pendant son mandat.