Does It Matter How Many Laws Are Broken? GOP Control Won't Allow Anyone To Be Arrested.

[TheMastersNemesis]

You wonder whether it matters how many people are indicted with GOP connections. Does not matter how corrupt Trump and his cronies are. With the GOP in charge no one will be arrested or put in jai. Perhaps I am wrong. Sadly laws are being broken in record numbers with this corrupt administration.

If you are in the GOP or associated you can do just about whatever you want. You can break any federal or state or local law and you face no retribution. At least it seems that way.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. No, because if that is true (I get where you are coming from, trust me) then

we will have a level of civil unrest that none of us want or can live with.

Law and order will reign or we will have very big and ugly problems that none of us really want.

I have to believe that.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. I Have To Believe The Same Thing. Trump Is Already In Violation Of Numerous Laws. Yet-----

nothing is being said or done. In fact there are probably so many continuing infractions that we have lost count.

In some ways the end of the rule of law is already happening.

[bettyellen]

17. Things are being said and done. We should be grateful they are being done so we and carefullly....

It’s going faster than Watergate, it’s having its impact at the polls. Patience is difficult, yes- but you are wrong to say nothing is being done. Say the House investigation is a sham, yes, but Mueller is on it.

[pnwmom]

3. People have already been arrested. Manafort and Gates were put under house arrest.

And sentences of any convicted will depend on judges.

[bettyellen]

18. Yes, this! And more to come!!

[NCTraveler]

4. People have already been arrested. Most likely more to come.

Yes, the bar will be high for the President. It wouldn't be as high if Republicans didn't have such solid numbers in the house. That doesn't mean there isn't a bar. We have set it, ourselves. It's high.

Still, your topic line is not accurate in a number of ways.

[TheMastersNemesis]

13. At Least That Fact Is A Good Sign. There Should Be Mass Arrests For All The Broken Laws.

[NCTraveler]

14. That's not how society works.

Never has.

Really shouldn't work that way, either.

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. We Have To Throw As Many Repub Fuckers Out Of Office As Possible

If they won't uphold the law, it is up to the citizens to punish them.

Democrats have to be convinced that the Democracy is at stake, and WE are the judge & jury.

[kentuck]

6. Good question!

Republicans seem to think there are two justice systems - one for them and one for everybody else. They act as if the laws are for everyone else. If we cannot agree on the law, we are screwed. It is over.

[Stallion]

7. The Ballot Box is the Constitution's Final Check and Balance

[meadowlander]

8. There is still a political cost to ignoring treason

and as the evidence mounts up and the 2018 midterm polls start to take shape fewer and fewer Republicans are going to be willing to pay that cost.

[UTUSN]

9. Nope/no matter. CONWAY has been found to have violated the HATCH Act & w.h. "REFUSED" the findings.

[Neema]

10. This is why I'd like the major indictments to happen after November. And why

we need to vote like our lives depend on it, because they do.

[mreilly]

11. Same here...

... if the Dems take the house in November then Pelosi becomes 3rd in line for the Presidency.

If Trump and Pence are both indicted and removed there is a CHANCE we end up with a Democratic President. It may be a slim or non-existent chance - if the timing isn't right and Trump/Pence are removed separately then either one will just appoint a GOP VP who would then become President since that's the kind of slimy bullshit the GOP will do when they're taken down.

But it is a nice dream...

[Neema]

12. I share that dream, and have expressed it often since late 2016.

People look at me like I'm crazy but I don't care.

[Volaris]

15. Yep the TICKET needs to be removed.

Pence was also elected via Russian influence/propoganda.
Pence is in this up to his eyeballs (even if we're not discussing it openly YET).

[Jim Lane]

16. Congress doesn't vote on criminal indictments.

People accused of federal crimes can be pardoned by Trump, but that's not to say he'd do so. Look at the way he's throwing Sessions under the bus, or his past praising then savaging of Bannon. Trump is big on receiving loyalty but a bit less ardent about giving it.

Then, of course, there are possible state crimes. The Attorneys General of New York and Virginia are both Democrats. An old joke is that the National Association of Attorneys General should really be called the National Association of Aspiring Governors. It has surely occurred to Schneiderman (NY) and Herring (VA) that their political prospects would be enhanced if they could take down one or more major Trumpsters.