• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Only if he actually ends up behind bars. Otherwise, this will have been a giant waste of taxpayer money and the final nail in rule-of-law’s coffin.

    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Not prosecuting someone is the same net effect as them not being convicted, but with a 100% certain negative result, rather than at least the chance of a conviction. If you don’t prosecute out of fear that it will end the rule of law, the rule of law is already dead.