No president is going to put an ex president’s wife in prison.
And to be frank, there’s 300k of our finest with lifelong brain injuries because Bush was supposed to destroy Saudi Arabia but made a wrong turn into Iraq.
He’s be in prison for being a traitor. Which is what he was.
The Bushes are in bed so often with the Sauds I’m surprised they dont have their children.
And #### you too Jeb!!!
Why not? She deserves it.
The situation is even worse than that. It is commonly, and probably correctly, said that the density and complexity of our laws is such that all of us are probably in violation of multiple statutes on a routine basis. Transfer the same principle to the presidency, add in the growth of sweeping and unconstitutional executive actions, the elasticity of legal definitions in our modern courts, and the growing popularity of standards retroactively developed and applied ....
The reality is that every former president and most of his cabinet members could probably be jailed for something, if his successor wanted to play the game that way.
Routine prosecutions of former heads of state, once normalized, will mean a speedy end to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power. It's end of the Republic stuff.
But at the same time, a culture of immunity for former heads of state licenses ever-greater abuse of power by those in office.
We are in a deep downward spiral. I don't know how we can pull out. We could, in principle, elect a president who understands the problem and is committed to constitutional self-restraint -- Ted Cruz used to talk this way, back in ancient times -- but whether he could reform the political culture is another question. The rot is now institutionalized in sweeping delegations of power to unaccountable federal agencies and in an activist judiciary that is committed to results and contemptuous of limits.