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This is an historic day: Jack Smith has taken the first steps on a path that will put a former US president in jail. I vividly remember the Watergate hearings when I was in college. It’s important that the whole country see justice being served. Trust in the rule of law is the glue that holds our Republic together.
Marcus Burelius@leo hear, hear
JacobRPG 🫘@leo chances of a conviction feels high. Chances of a prison sentence feels low.
Grumble@grumble209 @leo 💯 what I expect.
Robin@leo I really hope you’re right. So much has changed since Watergate in the way that people consume their “news.”
ahakim@leo nobody will throw a bigger party than me if trump goes to prison. I have absolutely no faith that will ever happen though.
monorail times@leo more like Mar-a-Lago house arrest, then he dies from a Big Mac heart attack
John GriffithNixon never served a day of prison time. I trust that we won't make that mistake again.
Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸@leo from your keyboard to god's feed.
It feels like a necessary step for the US also b/c it's no longer really tenable to view SCOTUS as anything other than a collection of politicians in robes. The legal-geniuses-just-calling-balls-and-strikes view doesn't really pass the straight-face test anymore unfortunately.
At least the criminal law is only ridiculously slow and inefficient, not altogether broken where the overprivileged are concerned.
Scott MatterYes.
And, maybe it would be a next step along the path towards a future where
- no one is above the law (not even the wealthy, the influential, and the corporate persons)
- the law is not a mechanism for producing structural inequality
- the law is fairly and justly applied to all, rather than applied in ways that reveal racial, socio-economic, and other forms of discrimination
Trust in that sort of rule of law might produce a far better Republic.
C Stewart@leo I remember it as it was happening and thinking how terrible it was. But this was so much more awful. Back then I don't remember there being factions that would follow Nixon through thick and thin. I think people were just happy to get rid of him.
@martlund 🌲🐶🇸🇪🇨🇱🌈@leo I fear the sleazy donald with jump bail.
Kurrywaine@leo guess I’m unfollowing you too. I didn’t realize you’d be posting biased political content.