A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1)

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@Rebo

With these guys, I betcha there’s more than one crime they can find to prosecute them on!  

No doubt, if the prosecutors really want to get serious about this. These crooks are full-time professionals at what they do.

Here’s a post I wrote last May discussing the double-jeopardy rules in a little more detail (as best I thought I understood it), back when it was a little fresher in my mind:

Minnesota trial of Derek Chauvin (killer of George Floyd) reactions

I think we’ve discussed, and settled, questions about double jeopardy like this in other threads already – in particular, questions about whether someone pardoned by the president can then be prosecuted for the same crime at the state level. Here is a summary as I understood it all, some points of which are relevant here: Some conclusions were: Double jeopardy only applies if, in the first place, you are tried for a crime and acquitted. If you are tried and convicted in one jurisdiction, y…