• TechyDad@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    110
    ·
    1 year ago

    My favorite moment was when Robert Menendez was charged with fraud. First, the Republicans tried to make it into a gotcha moment. “See? The Democrats will try to protect this criminal!” Except the Democrats either called for him to resign or refused to comment. Very few stood by him against the charges.

    And then the Republicans realized that “Menendez should resign due to fraud charges” would apply to Santos as well. Suddenly, the Republicans were all for Menendez staying in Congress until he had his day in court.

    So you had Republicans saying “this Democrat should remain in office” and (many) Democrats saying “he should resign ASAP.”

    • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      32
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I feel like there’s an important precedent with Hunter Biden, too. Yes you can get charged even if you’re in the royal family. It’ll make absolutely no difference to what the Republicans say, since they make no pretense of consistency, but it’ll make a difference to actual law enforcement and judicial decisions to some degree, which are a lot more impactful.

      • Furedadmins@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        24
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        The difference of course is that Hunter Biden is being prosecuted for something that is normally not prosecuted solely because of his families political ties. The Trump family were not investigated/prosecuted for things that are normally prosecuted because of political ties.

        • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Yeah… it’s concerning. There are small signs of hope in that all the current Supreme Court has been telling Trump to go to hell any time he wants them to keep him in power regardless of the votes.

          (So far)

          (Also I was talking not really about the courts but a more about the prosecutors and Justice Department getting in the habit of pursuing even “important people” when they’re being clearly criminal. It’s not much but I’ll take it.)

    • pandacoder@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I was totally not surprised Menendez committed more crimes.

      I was surprised he was still a senator though. I was hoping he had already been removed.