Originally Posted by
time4fun
It's not about having a spine. DoJ is in a lose/lose situation. Trump has very much indicated that he's thinking of running for President. Do we want to set a precedent that it's okay for sitting Presidents to use the Department of Justice to go after their political opponents? That's literally what Trump tried to do with Ukraine/Biden (only way worse since he was also blackmailing a foreign country into meddling in our election after the DoJ refused to do it for him). And it's a hallmark of autocracies.
And what happens if they do? Remember that armed militia of white nationalist extremists? What kind of violence might come out of indicting Trump?
On the flip side though, do we want to set a precedent where a President can do the worst possible things any President could do to their democracy and just get away with it?
This isn't about the presence or absence of a spine. These are weighty issues.
One interesting consequence of the January 6th hearings though is that in a lot of ways, they're forcing the DoJ's hand. The DoJ can't sit back and do nothing in light of the evidence coming out of the hearings. It's also making any moves they make look less political in the process. I don't think that's an accident. I think the DoJ was very much the primary audience in the January 6th committee's minds.
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