The special grand jury whose investigation served as the progenitor of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ later RICO indictments for 2020 election interference recommended charges against three Republican Senators – none of which were ultimately brought.
Lindsay can frame the special grand jury’s recommendation and hang it on the wall right next to his law degree. That will sum up his career, won’t it?
Damn. Should have brought them.
Can she try him on non-RICO charges?
Lindsey was nearly indicted? My, my, my. Shut my mouth.
I don’t know why the grandjury wanted him indicted. My charge against him would be being a sniveling little quisling. I guess that alone isn’t illegal.
This kind of highlights why I think the GA RICO charge is ultimately so weak. Millions of people expressly or implicitly joined Trump’s conspiracy to overturn the results of the GA election! Are we really going to put Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel in prison because he called Raffensperger’s office and said he should throw out the Fulton County absentee votes?
No Lindsey actually did some things that were really stupid and counterproductive, if not actually illegal. But that is the hallmark of his entire career, is it not?
Watch out for that one consistent “no” vote on the upcoming jury.
If by Cletius the Slack-Jawed Yokel you mean Lindsey Graham, you migh want to read the article. Willis didn’t indict him. She used prosecutorial discretion and let him skate despite the recommendation of the grandjury. For me the fact that she didn’t think she had a strong case against Graham makes me think the case against the ones remaining is stronger than I did before.
You do know that all of the Confederate Army were held to have insurrected?
I’m perfectly well aware that Ms. Willis didn’t indict Sen. Graham. That she put him to a vote in the grand jury and couldn’t even get it close to unanimous demonstrates why the GA RICO case is so weak, because it allows her to rope in a bunch of people whose individual criminal culpability is next to nothing. And I very much doubt that SCOGA or SCOTUS are going to let Trump get put away for a term of years when his individual criminal culpability for everything he did outside of the state RICO statute is a lone misdemeanor for soliciting an election official to do some vote fraud.
SFW?
(Yes, that’s a complete sentence, nannybot.)
What you are describing is the general problem with RICO. Personally I have never liked the RICO approach. It exists to put mob bosses and their henchmen in prison. The mob approach was embraced by Trump and his gang so it might work here. As much as I don’t like the law it has been very successful over the years, especially when going against members of a complicated criminal conspiracy.
I guess Lindsey is finding out that it’s hard out there for a spineless butt kissing trump toady. Who is he going to be best buddies with in prison?
Lindsey will first act offended and dumbfounded that such an injustice could have happened. When that dosen’t work for him any longer he will get all misty and claim that he was misslead by Little Donnie Short Fingers. When that dosen’t play well in the polling he will, using a very serious look, claim that he was acting undercover to help flesh out the criminality of the cabal of insurectionists lead by the same mister Short Fingers.
In other words Lindsey will put on what ever act he thinks at the time will play well with the less intelegent voters back home in South Carolina.
Is the implication that making cajoling telephone calls to a single election official is equivalent to taking up firearms and joining a military organization with the explicit goal of violently overthrowing the government?
Bingo. On January 6th he said he was “done” with trump. Months later he’s talking to him. A shitty Republican is better to Lindsey and his yokels than any good Dem.
Its a real shame Cleta Mitchell wasn’t indicted. She is one evil POS.
Only be fair if Lindseed hsd been charged
Yes. That’s a textbook example of an attempt to corruptly influence an elections official.