2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJust on MSNBC: 'Prosecutors skeptical that any charges coming against Terry McAuliffe.'
Just like with the email server investigation, the FBI is just going through the motions.
Sorry, Republicans. No Democrats will be frogmarched, like you fantasize about.
spin
(17,493 posts)When someone reaches the highest levels of our government they become immune to the law. In passing that goes for both Republicans and Democrats and is largely the reason our nation is in the mess it is.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)BootinUp
(47,222 posts)Hell with the evidence. String him up!
spin
(17,493 posts)However that should apply to everybody. Is that asking too much?
A good number of people in our nation suspect that the rule of law doesn't apply to those at the highest levels of our government and I tend to agree.
A legal system cannot demand the faith and fealty of the governed when rules are seen as arbitrary and deceptive. Our leaders have led us not to an economic crisis or an immigration crisis or an environmental crisis or a civil liberties crisis. They have led us to a crisis of faith where citizens no longer believe that laws have any determinant meaning. It is politics, not the law, that appears to drive outcomes a self-destructive trend for a nation supposedly defined by the rule of law.
In each of these areas, the perception is that the law says one thing but actually means different things for different people. It is a dangerous perception, and it is not entirely unfounded. Such double-standards have become common as Congress and presidents seek to avoid unpopular legal problems.(...emphasis added)
George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley, writing in Tuesdays USA Today
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/06/15/does-the-rule-of-law-even-exist-in-the-us-anymore/
I underlined Congress and presidents as this problem is not unique to the current administration.
BootinUp
(47,222 posts)I think it is a mistake to draw huge conclusions without huge facts to support it. I suspect you will point to the financial collapse and/or Iraq war as examples?
Said another way: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
spin
(17,493 posts)I have to depend on the integrity and honesty of those who do such work. In the last couple of decades I have begun to wonder how well our legal system is functioning and if it has been corrupted.
Of course it might be functioning perfectly but as I said a good number of people in our nation suspect otherwise. Perhaps that's why outsiders like Bernie and even Trump are doing so well against establishment politicians.
75% in U.S. See Widespread Government Corruption
WORLDSEPTEMBER 19, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Three in four Americans (75%) last year perceived corruption as widespread in the country's government. This figure is up from two in three in 2007 (67%) and 2009 (66%).
While the numbers have fluctuated slightly since 2007, the trend has been largely stable since 2010. However, the percentage of U.S. adults who see corruption as pervasive has never been less than a majority in the past decade, which has had no shortage of controversies from the U.S. Justice Department's firings of U.S. attorneys to the IRS scandal.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/185759/widespread-government-corruption.aspx
BootinUp
(47,222 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I just want Dems to cut this shit out.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)another ridiculous bit of disinformation, and you fell for it.
Prosecutors don't speculate to the press. They don't talk.
The FBI wanted the Clintons to know that their crony (who might know something incriminating) is under investigation. That's all this is.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)that sounds like a solid bit of information if they're defending him.