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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf our laws cannot be enforced, why do we have them?
When it comes to Trump, our entire justice system is on trial, not just Trump. What is happening now will decide the future of our justice system, our country.
Lunabell
(6,080 posts)The rich and powerful have their own set of laws.
inthewind21
(4,616 posts)Is the 64 million dollar question. And it's not they CANNOT be enforced, it's they are SELECTIVELY enforced.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,053 posts)The criminal justice system has no will to pursue justice against the wealthy.
brooklynite
(94,547 posts)Or is this another rant that AG Garland isn't moving fast enough?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)several state officials are looking at him, etc.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)We will see if destroying Whitehouse documents is another law that will not be enforced. That is a slam dunk indictment. That will tell me a lot about our justice system.
When it comes to Garland investigating the coup attempt. That's in it's early stages. I do not believe it's moving too slowly.
Emile
(22,728 posts)for future Presidents to do the same.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)seen anthing in writing that ties him to anything involving Jan 6.
The Committe has had the National Archive documents for a week or so. Plenty of time to find something incriminating, assuming it exists.
I think we run the risk of this becoming like Hilliary Clinton's email. A lot of nothing, but a great meme for opponents.
We need to prepare to beat trump at the polls, assuming he actually runs in earnest, which I doubt.
Emile
(22,728 posts)and fight like hell! You didn't see that?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to storm the Capitol and take out Pence, that would be enough. But he wasn't and didn't.
How did you move the goal post from documents to his stupid speech?
Emile
(22,728 posts)everyone on DU are on that same page. Many of us are just losing our patience on why it's taking so damn long. Hopefully in the coming months when the 1/6 committee goes live with their hearings then things will start moving rapidly.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)out how to gracefully get out of this before midterms. If we do have something -- for example, a trump sharpie drawing where trump directs the Ohio rube militia to enter the west side of capitol and proud rubes to enter from the south -- then it's time to prosecute or get another AG.
We are wasting too much time on this. Heck, we had the whole country watching when the committee started back in the summer showing films, had police officers describing the attack, etc., but the committee took a darn vacation or something.
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Zeitghost
(3,858 posts)Is not a successful prosecution strategy. The DOJ will not prosecute a common drug dealer without an ironclad case. They aren't going after a former President without mountains of irrefutable evidence.
Emile
(22,728 posts)or the stealing and destruction of White House documents. Those two things shouldn't be hard to prove.
Zeitghost
(3,858 posts)Convicting is another. Especially with Trump and 74+ million Trump voting potential jurors.
Emile
(22,728 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Chainfire
(17,537 posts)It has noting to do with justice.
Irish_Dem
(47,053 posts)onecaliberal
(32,856 posts)brooklynite
(94,547 posts)JanMichael
(24,886 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)their forms...
secondwind
(16,903 posts)sarisataka
(18,649 posts)As we want it to be or ends in a result we "know" is wrong should we drop it?
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,053 posts)Not for the white male elite.