possibly the most consequential event in US history: not putting Trump in jail on January 7th, 2021
Related, it can't be overstated what a failure AG Garland was and continues to be. By far Biden's biggest mistake.
Letting all the insurrectionists go home is up there, too. Like it was all just a day at the office.
ALT: a cartoon dog is looking at a red clock on a tree
It takes a lot of faith to believe that SCOTUS wouldn't have set him free on the same day. I don't share it.
Even January 20th would have been good.
He was still President, but yes to this on Jan 21st.
I've been saying for years that history will remember as calamitous the decision not to make Trump's impeachment trial the very first order of business as soon as Dems controlled the Senate. I don't know that it would've changed the outcome, but every second of delay lowered the odds of conviction.