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Well, if Congress and the Administration ever were to really flip (2018, etc...) It would be wildly unpopular amongst legal scholars, and would itself somewhat
by pasbesoin 9y ago
Well, if Congress and the Administration ever were to really flip (2018, etc...)
It would be wildly unpopular amongst legal scholars, and would itself somewhat threaten the republic.
Nonetheless, as a first order of business, I'd recommend retro-actively eliminating some of the statutes of limitation covering our last few crises.
Then, investigating with full transparency and hanging them out to dry.
And if, really, we can't lift those statutes of limitation, nonetheless forcing such full transparency through aggressive investigation -- and writing laws to support same and hanging those who obstruct in any way, out to dry.
I'm not for micro-managing society through legal action. But, we've selectively enforced basic laws, creating different classes based upon effective legal exposure and risk.
Fundamentally, we've stopped -- to the extent we ever were -- being a society and governance of laws.
I'm more concerned about other economic and power matters, but right now the U.S. is all het up over "immigration". The missing piece in the whole conversation, or particularly "legal enforcement"? Demand. For decades, effectively nothing has been done to those employers who engage in illegal employment.
Which include, by the way, Herr Trump, using and apparently abusing undocumented workers e.g. in his NY construction affairs.
This country, the U.S., is getting to the point of needing a South African type intervention. A truth commission. Because while parts of society feel whole and privileged, it's come with devastating consequences for those who are, after all, supposed to be their fellow citizens.
Just like Puerto Ricans are.
And since we're nowhere near flushing the chickenshits out of government, we have to do the investigation and truth-telling ourselves. And try to bullwark the last bastions for same: The free press and a free Internet.
And in that regard, it seems the race is on.