Scanning the news aggregator site Lucianne.com this morning. I see links to several articles in which the authors conclude Democrats are using criminal prosecutions against Republicans, most notably former President Donald Trump who, not incidentally, is a candidate for reelection. Examples include this, this, this, this, and this. The articles treat the Trump prosecution as having crossed a political red line, into banana republic terrain.
Their hinted or explicit conclusion, Republican prosecutors should look for opportunities to indict various elected and former Democrat officials with whatever charges for which plausible evidence exists. Shopping for conservative judges and jury pools is also de rigueur in such circumstances.
Metaphorically, sauce for both goose and gander, two can play the Political Lawfare game. Might this be a Fort Sumpter moment, the as yet unrecognized onset of a new kind of civil-war-in-the-courts that could presage a national divorce?
Imagine dozens of trials of political figures going on simultaneously across the country. “Gridlock” wouldn’t begin to describe it.
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“The forms of kanly have been obeyed” - Baron Harkonnen to Mentat Piter deVries, Dune.
