[jimkleiber]

Yes, emotionally I'd agree. However, legally, I think it's a very slippery slope. What if Don Jr shoots someone dead and then Trunp premptively pardons him so no one can investigate the shooting?

I think the hard part of enforcing the law is enforcing it equally, even towards those we love the most.

[SauciestGNU]

I think enforcing the law is only important while there is rule of law. What the Republicans are doing now is rule by law. It's not a good-faith reading of laws, it's using raw state power to turn the legal apparatus against the perceived enemies of the state/regime.

We're way past lofty ideals like equal application of the law. It's going to take a reconsideration of our social contract in order to live in a society where we once again protect the innocent and punish the guilty.

[jimkleiber]

Or we just get beyond the idea of punishing the guilty and go to restorative justice.

[SauciestGNU]

But I want bad things to happen to bad people...

I agree with restorative justice, but the people using a law as a weapon do not so I hope they see the same mercy they show their victims.

[jimkleiber]

What's missing in the first part is that these people believe bad things have already happened to them that's why they do bad things to others

[SauciestGNU]

I'm fully aware of my bad thinking, believe me. But so far I haven't been able to overcome it.