like at this point they aren't just breaking the law, they are loudly and openly flouting it; and encouraging other lawlessness from other people along the way. It is not political to intervene to stop it; it is misconduct not to.
Doubly so given that they are running explicitly on a campaign of "let's destroy the rule of law and that begins right here".
It's disturbing that EM is offering a bribe AND thinks Americans will take the bribe AND that he may be correct AND that no one seems to be doing anything about it. We are sitting here horrified as we watch it all happen.
We haven’t had much law, really, since 2016. (and before that, actually, but at least we sort of pretended…)
No worries, Merrick Garland will launch an investigation in 3 years.
And again, I am reminded that when I was a young teenager in San Fernando, Baskin-Robbins offered a free ice cream to anyone who brought in a ballot ticket and they got threatened and had to shut down that promotion.
Our laws and norms are not set up to defend against a lawless speed run to the presidency. Enforcement is meaningless if the criminal becomes (or owns) the judge before trial
Minor quibble: it is political, but people in politics should not be afraid of being political because that is their job
I understand lawyers cant write briefs at the speed of twitter, the DOJ has to dot the i’s cross the t’s, they cant just summarily arrest people but I’m like, do they have anyone in the office who can read the news? It’s public info in Newsweek! You have to enforce the law to protect the rule of law
I've been thinking for weeks about how you respond if Musk uses Xitter to gin up riots, like he had a hand in doing in the UK -- even asking if you needed to shut down Xitter to stop the violence whether you could. That was the dry run. But...