Democrats eyeing investigations, and perhaps prosecutions, of Trump officials
Source: The Hill
06/07/26 5:00 PM ET
House Democrats want 2029 to be the year of reckoning for Trump administration officials. Democrats have long accused top members of President Trumps team of violating laws across a wide range of activities, from deadly immigration raids and strikes on alleged drug boats, to financial self-dealing and targeting Trumps political enemies for prosecutions.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has not pursued those cases, the Democrats contend, only because the presidents loyalists control the agency. In many cases, they say, the DOJ itself is guilty of the wrongdoing.
But Trump wont be in power forever. And while the Supreme Court has granted immunity to presidents, shielding Trump from prosecutions related to his time in office, the dispensation does not extend to other administration officials. With that in mind, Democrats are already clamoring for the next administration, Democratic or Republican, to launch investigations into Trump officials and prosecute them in cases of demonstrated criminal wrongdoing.
This is stiff competition to see who is the leading crook, Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5912666-democrats-trump-officials-investigations-prosecute/
buzzycrumbhunger
(2,288 posts)... to wait for justice. . 🤨
littlemissmartypants
(34,959 posts)Racial justice needs an upgrade definitely.
Skittles
(173,362 posts)HOLD THESE FASCIST FUCKS ACCOUNTABLE
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,276 posts)Nuremberg II.
displacedvermoter
(5,124 posts)where a hundred defendants are caged up together in a huge enclosure in the middle of a specially built courtroom.
Maybe work will be advanced enough on the ballroom thing to modify it for that purpose, or maybe Alcatraz...
Scrivener7
(60,215 posts)rogue emissary
(3,403 posts)We need Democrats to go too far with prosecutions. Put the fear of God into these idiots, grifters, and sycophants.
travelingthrulife
(5,688 posts)Perhaps. That is just sick.
mwmisses4289
(4,916 posts)but you can bet that Dems will be persecuted with all kinds of false allegations.
3Hotdogs
(15,650 posts)Cabinet members and White House officials to the immunity list."
LPBBEAR
(688 posts)AND PERHAPS PROSECUTIONS!
After over 10 years of this shit there damn well better be some prosecutions.
BumRushDaShow
(172,787 posts)then all we can do is evidence gathering ahead of the 2028 election, then WIN that election, and finally have at it.
lostnfound
(17,678 posts)Im old enough to have seen America twice elect the bumbling son of a 1-term president, the repeated return of dangerous neocons, and a recycling of bad actors in other countries via their children or grandchildren (Marcos/Mussolini).
We have structural problems with the education of citizens.
travelingthrulife
(5,688 posts)Bayard
(30,495 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(24,283 posts)Whatever wish list Dems may have, none of it can get accomplished until the court is expanded, and the filibuster killed to do so.
republianmushroom
(22,831 posts)Dems were in power. No dropping the ball the next time.