The Mueller Report thread

[Bengalzona]

(05-02-2019, 03:34 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: you are correct, here, including regarding SCOTUS.


The DoJ hasn't gone after a former president, yet, because Ford pardoned Nixon, which stopped what would have been the first time it really happened. Of course, that would have been the same administration, pretty much, so it's a bit of a different ball game. The real reason we haven't seen the DoJ go after a former president is because of norms. Unless there was such an airtight case and the criminality was so egregious, any attempts by the DoJ to go after a former president would be seen as a politicization of the department in an extreme manner.

We've seen politicization of the DoJ from this administration, but it hasn't reached despotic levels, IMO. That would be one of the things that would put it there.

Also, it just plain looks bad (i.e. vindictive) in front of the voting populace.