There is no question: Merrick Garland must put Trump on trial - The Boston Globe

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/19/opinion/there-is-no-question-merrick-garland-must-put-trump-trial/

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Last year, the Globe editorial board laid out the case for prosecuting Donald Trump for his efforts to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Since then, the US House of Representatives formed a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack, more evidence of the previous White House’s wrongdoing has been revealed, and the need to hold the former president accountable for any crimes he may have committed in office has never been clearer or more urgent.

As we said last year, prosecuting Trump is not about partisan revenge; it’s one of several necessary steps that the federal government ought to take in order to meaningfully reform the presidency and defend American democracy. Now that the United States has gone through one failed attempt at overthrowing the government — instigated by none other than a man who was president at the time — it is more crucial than ever to show future occupants of the White House that breaking the law in the Oval Office will not stand.

But there is also another reason for the Department of Justice to hold anyone who participated in trying to overthrow the government, including Trump, accountable: Not only would it deter a future president from breaking the law in such a brazen way, it would also discourage their cronies and sycophants from playing along. Government officials at any level must be shown that they can be held personally liable for abusing their power. And if former officials can get by with nary a scratch after plotting an overthrow of the US government, then what message will that send to those with the keys to our government other than that they can get away with, quite literally, anything?

It should be clear to anyone by now that the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020, was not an accident. It was the “culmination of an attempted coup,” as Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the Jan. 6 committee, put it during the first day of public hearings. Indeed, the committee’s vice chair, Republican Liz Cheney of Wyoming, said that Trump had led a “sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election.”

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[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Is the Globe Boston's conservative paper? I always forget. Nt

[CozyMystery]

2. No, the Herald is. NT

[Girard442]

3. The time for "careful and methodical" has nearly run out. Time for "Hulk SMASH!" if you ask me.

[musclecar6]

4. I agree

The DOJ needs to indict and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, our favorite arrogant menace and his palace guard.

[GETTINGTIRED]

5. No indictment

than take these laws off the books.
if not trump then who.
if all this corruption and insurrection was lead by a Black or Brown man inciting other Black and Brown folks.
the jails would already be full , new laws put in place and likely many dead folks already.
and long term sentences not this lil baby shid.
so it's going to be interestin'.
two tiers of policing.
two tiers of justice.....



likely that's the typical way.
why in the hell do folks have a petition going to get the doj to do their job.


joke. smh.

[LAS14]

7. The thing is... the charges contemplated for Trump require that he ...

... understood what he was doing was illegal. His staff who say "he was disconnected from reality" give him cover. And never mind all those respected people who advised him otherwise. It's reasonable doubt when he says, "Well, I believed Giulianni (former NY state attorney general) and Eastman (clerk to Luttig). Do we want Trump to be found not guilty in a court of law?

[Seeking Serenity]

8. Bring them all before a military tribunal,

Find them guilty of treason, and have them hanged in a public fashion. Let's put an end to it, once and for all!