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Damage done, mission accomplished... If you do something illegal and can get away with it relatively unscathed, then it isn't in practice illegal.
by juujian 2y ago
Damage done, mission accomplished... If you do something illegal and can get away with it relatively unscathed, then it isn't in practice illegal.
- astrange 2y agoHow do you know you've gotten away with it? That takes the rest of your life. (Well, statute of limitations.)
- viraptor 2y agoIt's going to be a couple months at most. If it's not punished immediately, it's practically legal with the current gov. And the next one will have way bigger things to unfuck than some missing documents.
- latexr 2y ago> And the next one will have way bigger things to unfuck than some missing documents. Assuming there is going to be a next one which isn’t wholly aligned with the current one. That’s far from a given.
- astrange 2y agoThe federal government has no control over the elections that replace it.
- thanhhaimai 2y agoThe question becomes: Is this crime pardonable? If yes, how likely the current administration will pardon those people?
- astrange 2y agoThey can't do anything about state AGs. Federalism is kind of silly but it works out here.
- alwa 2y agoCan state AGs prosecute federal crimes, like this one?
- astrange 2y agoNo, but if it affects someone in the state there's usually something to get them on.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoMy understanding is that anyone can sue anyone in theory. Ideally, yes. In practice, the State AG's are one of the most respectable powers to sue for a federal law being broken, which would then go to federal court. Ideally the SCOTUS would step in itself and injunction all this stuff so it doesn't get to this point, but Trump sure is working them overtime.
- zellyn 2y agoTrump is just going to blanket pardon anyone involved.
- dataflow 2y agoWho would even prosecute? State attorneys general?