Noting another historic event: the first federal indictment of a former president and leading presidential candidate.
The objections to this are not the cliché “no one is above the law”, but the unequal treatment under the law. Sure, the Trump case of having classified documents at home can be differentiated from the Biden, Pence, Obama, you name them, cases, by his “obstruction of justice” because he resisted handing them back, while the others didn’t. BUT, it cannot be differentiated from the Hillary Clinton case, as she kept vastly more documents, over 30,000, on her private server, at home, and then, when asked for them, destroyed them with “BleachBit” software. This, to many, counts as a more egregious case than Trump’s, yet “no reasonable prosecutor would pursue the case” said then FBI director James Comey. Hmmm….
Glenn Greenwald explains why precedent is crucial. It’s the bedrock of our western legal systems. By ignoring it, the DOJ is proving itself a to be a scary partisan political player. GG: “in the law, precedent is everything “. Without it anyone can be arrested for anything. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime “ said Beria to Stalin. As in:
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