• mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.)