Summary
Democrats blame Attorney General Merrick Garland for delaying prosecution of Donald Trump over the January 6 Capitol attack, allowing him to win reelection before facing trial.
Critics argue Garland wasted critical time before appointing a special prosecutor in late 2022, enabling Trump to evade accountability due to DOJ policy barring prosecution of sitting presidents.
While Trump faces ongoing civil lawsuits, his return to power threatens pardons for convicted rioters and continued revisionism about the attack.
Despite public disapproval of Trump’s actions, he successfully leveraged misinformation to regain the presidency.
With great sadness I’ll remind you that a majority of voters elected Trump.
At this point it just doesn’t really matter what the rules are. It hasn’t mattered before now. It certainly isn’t going to matter just a few weeks after the citizens expressed their desire that he be president.
I take issue with your assertion that the document on which all other US law depends and from which all US public offices are granted their authority does not matter. It must. We ought to insist it does. Especially while it is being violated.
Sadly, it doesn’t matter.
I’m grieving right along with you.
My point is, when someone is democratically elected in a free and fair election then the rules don’t really matter because they’re supposed to be derived from the will of the people anyway.
Using the law to undermine a democratic process is not the way.
You’ve fundamentally misunderstood this. Upholding Constitutional law cannot undermine the democratic process which it establishes.
If I win a game by breaking its rules I am de-facto disqualified from that victory. Yes, all law is written by people, can be unmade by people, and is only in effect so long as we collectively agree to enforce it, however; if the law is not unmade and if we collectively sigh in apathy at its violation then we are no longer playing the game the rules have defined.
This is the immense danger of the current Constitutional crisis. If there is no enforcement of the rules set forth in a government’s founding document then it can no longer be recognized as the body which that document defines.
I’m not debating the law and how it’s supposed to work.
I’m agreeing that the law is only relevant if you collectively agree to enforce it.
Sadly, in a recent election polling the entire nation, Americans collectively agreed to disregard the law in this instance.