Ally House, you may well be right, but the issue is what Mr. Garland choses to do or not with reference to the standing of a particular case. No one has asked him to prosecute it: he's the Attorney General of the United States. The decision that Mr. Trump, a citizen like you or me, is protected from prosecution for a crime committed be…
Ally House, you may well be right, but the issue is what Mr. Garland choses to do or not with reference to the standing of a particular case. No one has asked him to prosecute it: he's the Attorney General of the United States. The decision that Mr. Trump, a citizen like you or me, is protected from prosecution for a crime committed before he was president is a peculiar one: the chief task of the DOJ at present is to return the country to the rule of law, and bring law into line with the pursuit of justice. See Elie Mystal's assessment of the situation: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-carroll-garland/
Ally House, you may well be right, but the issue is what Mr. Garland choses to do or not with reference to the standing of a particular case. No one has asked him to prosecute it: he's the Attorney General of the United States. The decision that Mr. Trump, a citizen like you or me, is protected from prosecution for a crime committed before he was president is a peculiar one: the chief task of the DOJ at present is to return the country to the rule of law, and bring law into line with the pursuit of justice. See Elie Mystal's assessment of the situation: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-carroll-garland/