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by curun1r
3224 days ago
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> How is this shit legal? From the article... > One recurring feature of the Trump Presidency has been an acute collective sensation, shared by a substantial portion of the electorate, of helpless witness. Dismayed Americans wait, like spectators at a game that has turned suddenly dangerous, for a referee to step in and cry foul...What this means in practice is a serious deficit of accountability. Whom can you call when the authorities are the ones breaking the rules? This, for me, is the troubling part of the Trump administration. It's not whether the crap he's pulling is legal or not. It's whether there is anyone with the power to do so who will hold him and his fellow law-breakers to account. And when he can just fire the people that are investigating him, you seriously have to question whether our system really does have the legendary checks and balances we're taught in school or whether we've just never before elected the wrong cohort of leaders who were willing to abdicate the responsibilities of their offices. And with Trump's FEC appointees blocking efforts to plug the holes that Russia may have used to influence the outcome of the last election, we may not even have the opportunity to exercise the ultimate check on corruption during the upcoming elections. |
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For example, it took almost two years after Watergate for the impeachment process to even start and over two years before it started to reach its conclusion. And then of course Nixon resigned before it went to trial.
If the whole process had been completed it would probably have been at least 3 years from crime to conviction. Though any sitting President would be foolish to let it go that far: much easier to resign and have your Vice President blanket pardon you.