I totally agree that what the government did against the public in this case is over the top. My point is that the law does not possess a remedy for this.
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If the situation was reversed and it was a cabal of Republicans that attempted to derail Obama by weaponizing federal resources against him, I strongly suspect the Dems would ensure that the law did have a remedy for it. The indictments would be flying.
Sure. See Weissman prosecution of Arthur Anderson (company) on a made up legal theory. On a different level of government, the Waco bikers, charged for being in a place where the cops started a gunfight.
I guess my point here is that "the law" isn't so much the rules written on paper as it is the willingness of the people in power to use their power by any means necessary, including torturing the rulebook (the same way SCOTUS tortures the constitution) to make it say anything they please.
If conservative were like liberals, we'd have rounded them up by now. We have superiority of force.