Prosecute Trump? Merrick Garland is investigating aggressively but prosecuting cautiously

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13. As the article illustrates, evidence alone is not enough to prosecute.

There are other ingredients at play, a bunch of them listed in the article. If anyone at DOJ proceeds with evidence alone, there is a chance that the effort will not get past DOJ's own rules for prosecution. Evidence must meet certain standards. Thinking the evidence is there beyond reasonable doubt is not enough: you must demonstrate you can prosecute with a degree of certainty defined by DOJ's own written rules, that you will reach a conviction. That is in the article too.

And, of course, none of us know whether or not Garland has enough to meet the standards set by DOJ, the standards Garland swore to uphold when he took the job. So piling on Garland without this knowledge is premature at best. That's the gist of the article.