This nation—and one of its former presidents—currently are learning a crucial lesson about civics and American government. In its most limited sense, the lesson is that the president is not above the law. But there’s a much larger lesson that has a connection to Black-Collar Crime. The larger lesson is about how (even in America and even today) some people in power quickly and easily slip into abuses of power and about how the Constitution protects the People from abusive officials.