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In reply to the discussion: All those posting your belief there will be no justice... [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Anyone who knows anything about the law knows that the law doesn't exist for the sake of justice alone. And it doesn't work in practice to bring about justice. Although one hopes that is the result a majority of the time.
Law is a rule, statute or code that sets out what is and is not allowed. Then two sides show up in court, each with its own view of how that law was followed, or violated. Each side has evidence. The legal system strives to find which side has the most convincing evidence, and which side has evidence that tips the scales of justice, if only slightly (in a civil case), or beyond a reasonable doubt (in a criminal case).
There are so many judgments along the way, that the end result may be justice. Or it may not be. It also depends on one's view of justice. And, as we've seen with the Mueller Report, is starts with someone deciding that a guilty verdict is certain enough, and the evidence is strong enough, that it is worth even trying to bring the wrongdoer to justice in court. Mueller decided the evidence wasn't strong enough, for what HE could do.
So now it's up to the House. They need to decide if the evidence is strong enough, the votes sure enough, and the things that flow from those votes good enough, to impeach or file an indictment. It's not a sure thing, at this point.
So while everyone hopes that justice will prevail, realists know that it's not certain that it will. Whether justice prevails or not, though, life goes on, and we have high hopes to win the next election. For some, that will be justice. For others (like myself), that'd be a great thing, but not justice.