How the Justice Department's Trump Prosecution Ran Aground | Washington Monthly

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : But SCOTUS is a political court dominated by six hard-right Republicans, three of whom were appointed by Trump himself.
39% : Constable Merrick Garland and his Special Counsel, Jack Smith, have blundered, and Trump may walk on his federal indictments.
34% : Yet, neither Garland nor later Special Counsel Smith moved to indict Trump under 18 USC Section 2383 for inciting an insurrection.
33% : Instead, he let Trump take advantage of the delay.
33% : Despite the Court's unanimous ruling that Colorado wrongly ejected Trump from the ballot and ruled that states can't decide on the disqualification of federal office seekers, the three Democratically appointed justices and Amy Coney Barrett were open to the question of whether a court might have the authority to disqualify and no just Congress.
32% : It is possible that Donald Trump, having been indicted on 91 felony counts in four jurisdictions, will not only get away scot-free but be re-elected president of the United States.
32% : Aileen Cannon, whom the Eleventh Circuit had twice rebuked for her conduct of the search warrant of Mar-a-Lago, could hardly be doing more for Trump if she wore a MAGA hat.
31% : Look at the facts:Trump learned from his mentor, Roy Cohn of McCarthy-era fame, how delay could derail a civil suit or a criminal investigation.
29% : Faced with the risk of a significant prison sentence, it's at least plausible that Trump might have cut a deal and agreed not to run as part of a plea bargain.
27% : The liberal legal pundits are all saying that Trump has no presidential immunity in the January 6 case and that even the Roberts Court will affirm that the 77-year-old can be tried.
18% : Washington is, after all, where even Nikki Haley trounced Trump.
7% : In February 2021, after Trump was acquitted in his second impeachment trial, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, who is now endorsing Trump, said the former president was guilty of a 'disgraceful dereliction of duty' and 'practically and morally responsible for provoking' the violence unleashed on the Capitol.

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