The real rule-of-law issue with prosecuting a former president for the first time in US history is whether the charges are the sort of clear violation of unambiguous law that an ordinary citizen would be prosecuted for. Any effort to get creative will reek of banana-republic.
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Everyone learned about the fall of the roman Republic and took away the lesson: "hell yea it was right for the senate to line up a bunch of prosecutions of Julius caeser as his term/immunity ended, leaving him little option but to cross the rubicon"
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Hillary might have mishandled emails but Trump is engaging in a direct attack on the Constitutional system of government.
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By doing what?
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This isn't wrong, but it's hard to think someone as corrupt as Trump should be able to just get away with it. Outrageous for a law and order party to so argue, in fact.
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My God. They investigated the he’ll out of HRC my whole life. Hold Trump accountable.
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I honestly don’t feel like I’ve gone a day in the last 4-6 years without hearing her name in some negative way.
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If Ford had not pardoned Nixon, do you think prosecution should have commenced? I’m not making a direct comparison, but trying to figure out how this works.
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