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If Richard Nixon believed hat “when the president does it, that means that is not illegal,” Trump likewise believes that the rightness of an action hinges on whether or not he is the one doing it.

By giving Haddix, who is convinced of the rightness of her feelings and the righteousness of her cause, space to talk, Goode does at least allow her some dimension.

“Claims about that shouldn’t be dismissed on technical grounds like abstention or rightness. I think the appellate court is going to have a lot to say about it.”

For its farewell, Olafsson played it more fluidly, but also with more confidence in the rightness of its hermitage.

For both Netanyahu and Biden, popular opinion at home and deep personal conviction in the rightness of Israel’s cause, and each man’s battle for his own short-term political survival, are all combining to make it appear unlikely that Netanyahu will yield much on the U.S. demands regarding the Palestinians, or that Biden will get much tougher in trying to force them.