# DOJ/Jack Smith Investigation into Trump and Election Interference, January 6th Insurrection (Re-Indicted August 27, 2024) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 23, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455 "2022-11-23T20:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1590
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1590 "2023-10-06T14:37:11Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > There just isn’t anything about how double jeopardy has ever worked that would make it apply here. Agreed. This is because no one has ever been acquitted in a Senate trial and then tried for something that is arguably part of the same offense. If they had, [I think I would have found it here.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impeachment_investigations_of_United_States_federal_judges) I wonder if I would have more support in my views here if Biden was the one who had been acquitted by the Senate and was then facing a second trial in a jurisdiction where most people voted against him. It may happen! Perhaps some care more about Trump being held accountable than others in the future being treated fairly. I admit to the opposite priority. Better to let ten guilty go free than to punish one innocent. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455)._