Doesn't this incentivize the most egregious kind of electoral cheating? ("Hey, even if you get caught, a thorough investigation will take so long that the nation will be transformed in the direction of your preferred ideology either way!")
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Not substantially more than there already is. Individual lawbreakers still punished and disgraced. There'd have to be someone simultaneously willing to cheat and willing to sacrifice everything on behalf of an ideology. I'm not sure if anyone like that exists.
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You're not sure Paul Ryan exists? From what I've seen, the GOP used the cheating to advance ideological goals, and most of them (Ryan, McConnell, etc.) don't face any charges or more opprobrium than they've already received, mostly.
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I'm not aware of any credible accusation Ryan cheated. He's letting others' cheating slide, and deserves a lot of criticism for that, but it's not the same thing.
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I was thinking of this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.cf48bb5ff72f … and this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.b48a030a1892 …. They cynically used Trump's cheating with Russia in order to further their own policy goals on judges and taxes. They still are. The GOP used and uses Trump's cheating. Thus, a bad incentive.
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Nunes has worked feverishly to do everything he could to help Trump see into the Mueller investigation and hurt it politically. He does that with Ryan's blessing. Ryan could but hasn't removed him from his chairmanship, and he approves certain requests of DOJ.
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Serious question, though. Who should be president. If Trump is found to be complicit in these crimes, and Russia found to assist Tru,p in getting him elected, illegally...you can't put pence in office. Putting Mitch I. Would be a wet dream for the right. Mwhat do you do?
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We're deep into hypotheticals here, but... First, Speaker of the House follows VP. Then Senate Pres Pro Tempore, which is Orrin Hatch. Senate Majority Leader's not on the list. If Trump and Pence both removed/resign, I'd like to see a caretaker POTUS take us to next election.
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Reich's idea of annulment-by-litigation is nuts. But if Trump stole the election, his Presidency is politically illegitimate, and doesn't that make his judicial appointments illegitimate as well? 1/
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I might buy that if judges get on the bench through presidential fiat, rather than a process including many people and institutions that ends with Senate confirmation.
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I don't see how that immunizes them from the taint of having been appointed by an illegitimate president. I'm not saying their appointments are *invalid*. My point is that they're *politically* illegitimate. 1/
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And Senate confirmation doesn't mean much given this Senate. The problem will be especially acute re Kavanaugh, given what is now known.
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