• @morphballganon
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      85 hours ago

      No need to guess. Project 25 is free to read.

    • @[email protected]
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      589 hours ago

      He’s dropping them now because its the only move that might revive them when Trump is out. If his old ass lives that long.

      • @[email protected]
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        58 hours ago

        Could you explain what you mean? Does dropping the case mean they can prosecute him for the same crimes later?

        • @[email protected]
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          168 hours ago

          Because this is federal the chain of command goes from Jack Smith through one or a few other people before landing on Trump (once he takes office). Trump can simply order people down the line to dismiss the charges with prejudice, making it so they can never be re-filed again. If the charges are just dropped at this point, he’d have to order them to be re-charged then dismiss. Which honestly, I don’t see him suffering any backlash at all if he did. His supporters are fucking stupid and fucking crazy.

    • snooggums
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      138 hours ago

      He is making a pragmatic decision that any reasonable lawyer would make.

      DOJ policy is to drop a case like this. If he ignored policy then he would be fired by February before the case would even proceed. So no matter what he does, the case is dead and at least he got to write some words down. Basically the same as the three resonable justices on SCOTUS who have no power to do anything beyond write dissenting opinions that might matter sometime in the future.

      It sucks, but Republicans have completed their coup from within the US government.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 hours ago

      He wasn’t threatened with anything January 6th has always been a dog and pony show to keep Democrats riled up against Republicans in the hope that Democrats will stay in power. The oligarchy will never charge one of its own

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          They may fight amongst themselves, but they would never do anything to harm other people amongst their own class.

          The one thing the oligarchy does understand that the working class does not is class solidarity. Dog and pony shows like January 6th keeps class solidarity fragmented amongst the working class