DC attorney general weighs legal viability of charging Trump under local statute

[Nevilledog]

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Kyle Griffin
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Lawyers inside the DC attorney general's office are working to determine if it is legally viable to use district statutes to charge Trump for his role in the insurrection.

DC attorney general weighs legal viability of charging Trump under local statute
Lawyers inside the Washington, DC attorney general's office are working to determine if it is legally viable to use district statutes to charge former President Donald Trump for his alleged role in...
cnn.com
8:00 AM · Feb 14, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/dc-attorney-trump/index.html

[MineralMan]

1. Yes. At least if Trump was not on federal property when he incited the riot.

If he was, that would probably prevent those charges from sticking, due to jurisdictional issues. It will be a fine line, legally.

[sobenji]

9. He WAS on federal property for the inciting tweets

[hlthe2b]

2. It was reported yesterday that Feds are discussing/coordinating with him.

[Nevilledog]

3. Good to hear.

[soothsayer]

4. Yassss! Find a way!

Then convict him and then 14th amendment him for good measure

[Turin_C3PO]

5. If he was convicted,

the vote would be taken to disqualify him from office and it would succeed. All it takes is a simple majority.

[soothsayer]

6. Yep yep

[Vivienne235729]

14. Keeping fingers crossed. I sure hope they find a way to charge and go after him.

[onetexan]

24. Bravo!

[SledDriver]

7. Spoiler alert

It will not be legally viable to use district statutes to charge Trump for his role in the insurrection.

We really need to drop this fiction that there is going to be some sort of accountability coming to Trump via some mystical enforcer ala Cy Vance, SDNY, sealed indictments, Mueller, etc.

[Turin_C3PO]

8. It's not about "mystical enforcers"

as you put it. It’s about the fact that Donald Trump has broken different laws in different jurisdictions and should be held accountable by our legal system. No mysticism required.

[SledDriver]

10. "should be held accountable" Yes.

But... *won't* be held accountable is the reality though.

Trump is effectively above the law. He has not been, nor will he ever be, punished for any of his actions.

We need to stop pinning our hopes on the next promise of some entity swooping in to hold him accountable. We need to stop being so gullible and face reality. It's just not going to happen.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. Your pessimism is duly noted. I am willing to wait for decisions from DOJ, AG's and DA's. Nt

[paleotn]

21. Again...why? Specifically, why?

You're still not explaining what kind of "super power" he has? If it's just your opinion, that's fine.

[Turin_C3PO]

22. Don't agree.

Our DOJ isn’t afraid of Donald Trump. Neither is NY state. Merrick Garland will be leading the DOJ and there’s no reason to believe he won’t hold Trump accountable. You may have no faith in our justice system but I do.

[bcbink]

30. pinning hope

I will pin my hope.
I will pay attention.
If someone tries I will help if possible, support if I can, lead a cheer if nothing else.

[freepotter]

16. Should be left to the Feds

Since T**** was on Federal property, there are Federal laws that will cover his actions, and prevent him from running for office again.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2101

[LiberalFighter]

32. Both viable in my opinion.

[MyNameGoesHere]

15. Spoiler alert

Who fucking cares? If we can't toss his ass in jail keep going after him, his assets, his family, his image his everything. Make him bleed from a thousand paper cuts. Make it toxic to be named trump.

[pandr32]

17. At the very least

At least it affects him.

[bcbink]

31. Agree NT

[paleotn]

19. Why do you think that?

Is he above the law? Does the NY AG's office know about this? How about GA?

Sorry, but I don't like defeatists. They're defeated only because they quit.

[PatSeg]

11. And let the lawsuits begin

Trump has spent his entire adult life suing people, now he will be on the receiving end. He has made far too many enemies. It was inevitable that it would come back at him eventually and now he can't hide behind the presidency.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Senate Republicans greatly acknowledged the truth in the case against Trump

Even McConnell, and those who voted to convict. But I took their actions to mean they are not willingly participating in the destruction of their own party. But take heart, the foundations have been dynamited and only the strong parts will remain.

[rickyhall]

18. DC, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania. Inciting, interfering; ought to be a felony in there somewhere.

A felony conviction is all we need, then he can't even vote. Maybe they get Ivanka the same way. As for the Heartless Boys, I don't know.

[KatK]

20. I can't wait for all the legal and financial comeupance coming his way n/t

[crickets]

25. Agreed!

A little late, but welcome to DU, KatK!

[BobTheSubgenius]

27. Nor can we all!

Welcome to DU!

[Fla Dem]

23. It's the People's House. Every State DA should be party to a indictment against Trump

Inciting a riot and insurrection against every state's Senators and Representatives in the People' House.

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. Best news of the day, without doubt.

And, hopefully, getting better. Soon.

[GOPistheEnemy]

28. What I what to know who/whom is blocking

the 100% unvarnished truth about Twitler and the Republicans from being released?

Part of America's National Security Apparatus is the NSA or No Such Agency. One of the things they do is monitor and record every single electronic transmission in and out of the USA and they have been doing this for a very long time. A "businessman" with known ties to criminal organizations, world leaders including communists and despots would have been a person of interest to other elements of America's National Security Apparatus who more than likely have all sorts of rather interesting information in the files too. There is no way any of the info pre WH would be destroyed while he was in the WH the gov has too many places to hide stuff all over the world. The people who protect that sort of information are immune from the politics of the day, they protect the real secrets of America they have it all, they need to release it.

[mackdaddy]

29. DC "local" is actually a special DOJ Federal prosecutor.

I can't say that I totally understand how it all works, but Glen Kirschner was a federal prosecutor who also prosecuted local DC crimes like murder.

Any how there is overlap with the Federal DOJ and DC crimes. And northern District of VA Federal prosecutor covers some of this too.

I still think that Trump has secret Federal pardons for his family and inner circle stashed away to pull out if/when the Feds charge him. And it gets sticky that if he uses a pardon on a federal charge, whether there is double jeopardy on state charges afterward. Manafort just skated on some state charges in NY because of that.

It might be better if State and Local prosecutors file the actual charges, although I would think that the FBI/DOJ could do some investigating and turn over evidence found.