At this point anything remotely considered illegal would result in actions that would make the actions against Trump seem trivial.
Oh yeah, what are they gonna do? File more illegal indictments? Suspend more constitutional rights? Take more political prisoners?
There’s a great scene from Solzhenitsyn’s “The First Circle”. A political prisoner, Bobynin, is brought before the head of the MGB (one of many iterations of the KGB), and when entering the minister’s office, he casually walks in and plops down on a comfy chair. The minister is taken aback and asks the prisoner “Why did you sit down without permission? Don’t you know who I am?”
Well, the prisoner responds (after a little insolent remark comparing the minister to Herman Goering):
“I know you need me and I don’t need you.”
The minister tries to threaten him, but it doesn’t work. Bobynin explains that it can’t work, because he has nothing to lose. His wife is dead, his children are dead, his whole family is dead, he’s been in prison for twenty years already in the worst conditions, and all he owns in the world is a handkerchief. So since he has nothing else that can be taken away, the minister no longer has any leverage at all.
Well, we’re not quite at that point, but we are getting close. Soon, threats will no longer work, at least not threats of the kind that Democrats are willing to make at this point. They’re going to need to get their hands much dirtier, or they will find compliance is not so forthcoming.