One of the things that can also be an issue here is whether there’s true double jeopardy – whether the crimes are the same as well as (some or all of) the fact patterns. I had thought one of Vance’s arguments was that the crimes were different.
(IANAL, so I am going to do a lousy hypothetical: say you shoot someone as they are entering a polling place – under federal law you would be interfering with their right to vote and interfering with an election, but under state law there would also be the attempted murder. )
If this is how the legal process turns out, so be it…we follow the law, even when it doesn’t give us the revenge that we want against someone who sorely deserves it. That’s how Republicans are failing today, and it’s not a road to follow.
Other charges, if they are available, should be pursued…honestly, the justice system needs to track down everything that was done illegally during the Trump administration and charge them all. Accountability is required after what just happened…not witch hunts, but actual investigation, evidence, and indictment.
My thoughts, too. I didn’t know who Manafort was before his Trump campaign work in 2016. And now he’s probably still on the hook for money he owes a lot of, shall we say, bad hombres. Let them have him and do what they want.
A black woman can get 5 years for a mistaken vote that didn’t count but this criminal gets to walk scot free. I am sick of this. Clearly justice in America isn’t blind and it winks at rich white grifters.
What this amounts to is Manafort and Trump playing the legal system and getting away with ALL of it. Double Jeopardy be dammed. Who else gets away with all the crimes Trump’s people are getting away with? In house arrest isn’t prison. Trump still able to mock and intimidate the Senate while on trial isn’t justice.
