Paul has written his typically thoughtful and fair-minded analysis of the question whether Trump should be prosecuted. Having been a federal prosecutor for most of my career, I would add a few thoughts. Initially, as is often true in law, the lead question (and frequently the most important), is: Who gets to decide? Ordinarily, of course, Justice Department lawyers — line attorneys and their supervisors — decide whether a federal prosecution will be brought. That would not be the case here. Merrick Garland would have the most important voice, although I suspect that in a case with this much legal and political importance, the matter would be run by President Biden (as one of my cases, US v. Dickerson, was, so I have learned, run by President Clinton).
Let’s appoint Mueller again! And he can appoint all the same people under him. And we can have another 2-year farce of an investigation with the same results. What a joke. But it’s not a joke. It’s a tragedy, the descent of this great nation into an oligarchic banana republic, that is.
Let’s appoint Mueller again! And he can appoint all the same people under him. And we can have another 2-year farce of an investigation with the same results. What a joke. But it’s not a joke. It’s a tragedy, the descent of this great nation into an oligarchic banana republic, that is.