I haven’t written a lot about the Trump trials, viewing them as Lawfare against him. “Lawfare” being a neologism combining “law” and “warfare.”
Now they’ve begun and my opinion hasn’t changed. I continue to believe most of them would never have happened if he were not a presidential candidate, don’t you?
What we are witnessing, is an abuse of our legal system for political ends. What is alarming is that this sort of thing, once begun, is hard to stop.
Both parties will now feel emboldened to utilize it against their opponents. Result: the “system” is coarsened, no good thing.
I think of this as the Harry Reid problem. As majority leader the late Sen. Reid (D-NV) got rid of a supermajority requirement for confirming judges, and got a few liberals through.
Then the Rs got a Senate majority and proceeded to use the new rule to get an R majority on the Supreme Court, which is the ultimate goal in this game. If Ds are honest, they must blame Reid for that outcome. Rs used the rule against its instigators.
If you bet horses they way they’ve run in the past, you’d bet on Trump finagling his way through this legal briar patch, with at worst a few scratches. As he’s fond of saying, we’ll see what happens.
