The Mar-a-Lago search could signal the end of another 'long national nightmare'

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"The Justice Department and the FBI have crossed the Rubicon, and they know it.." Another point: by any calculation, time is really moving quickly toward 2024. A quick charge of 2701 is one way to beat that clock.
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, file photo, is Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Former President Donald Trump has been living at his Mar-a-Lago club since leaving office last week — a possible violation of a 1993 agreement he made with the Town of Palm Beach that limits stays to seven consecutive days. Town Manager Kirk Blouin said in a brief email Thursday, Jan. 28, that Palm Beach is examining its options and...
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Column: The Mar-a-Lago search could signal the end of another 'long national nightmare'
The FBI's search at Trump's residence constitutes a highly dramatic investigative move against a former president, much more dramatic than anything that occurred during Richard Nixon’s Watergate...
10:50 PM · Aug 8, 2022

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-08/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-warrant-search

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As the Justice Department is keenly aware, searching Mar-a-Lago constitutes a highly dramatic investigative move against a former president, much more dramatic than anything that occurred during Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal.

The Justice Department and the FBI have crossed the Rubicon, and they know it. It’s near certain that Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland would have had to sign off on such a move.

The majority of those who are the subjects of federal warrants wind up getting charged with federal offenses. That is, Monday’s warrant and the search unequivocally lock Trump and the government he used to lead in an arch-antagonistic posture, playing for the highest of stakes and for keeps.

It might seem puzzling, even disappointing, that the Justice Department and the FBI would have chosen to throw down the gauntlet for a crime — “concealment, removal, or mutiIation generally” of official documents — that is far from the most serious of those we think the former president may have committed, such as obstruction of justice, fraud against the United States and, most dramatically, seditious conspiracy.

But a charge of mishandling or destroying official documents is no petty offense, not under the federal code (which provides for a prison sentence of up to three years) and not in the culture of the Justice Department, which takes it very seriously.

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[elleng]

1. The beginning of a long, long end.

[Frasier Balzov]

2. One of the penalties is disqualification from federal office.

A worthwhile objective in itself.

[Skittles]

3. new rule needed

YOU DON'T GET TOR RUN FOR OFFICE IF YOU REFUSE TO CONCEDE A LEGITIMATE ELECTION, *AND/OR* IF YOU TRY TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT

[Frasier Balzov]

5. Something akin to this is contained in the Fourteenth Amendment.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. If that's 3 yr per offense, I hope each document taken constitutes a separate offense. nt