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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ashtonkem on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:42AM (#25667655)
It seems to me that teaching potential demagogues that they will go unpunished if it's sufficiently inconvenient is a bad lesson to teach if you want to keep a republic.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by eloff on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:41AM (#25671530)
You can't impeach or have any justice done in two weeks. It's just not worth it.

If there's some kind of crime that's been committed and it can be prosecuted successfully, then by all means after he's out of office. I don't think that's the case though.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ashtonkem on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:45AM (#25672278)
You can prevent him from pardoning the rioters. You can bar him from running again.

Impeachment actually does things other express disappointment.

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