Would advancing socialism be “abuse of office”?
Disagreement with the ruling party?
By all means, let us criminalize policy disagreements and hold kangaroo court trials for those who lose elections!
And then we can all sit around and wonder where our great American Republic went to, and why our President for Life doesn't want to hold elections.
But to some I guess they would LIKE such a system, so long as they liked our Presidente for Life.
I spit upon such a system.
Ok, what’s your solution?
Sleazy ethics of politicians aside, it's pretty straightforward when already written law has been violated by officeholders. That is not criminalizing "policy disagreements" and it does not make a kangaroo court.
Is it a policy disagreement when I ask justice department appointees why they refuse to pursue Black Panther voter intimidation, said refusal probably at the behest of the current administration? Do you think that just because Obama is no longer in office (assuming that were to be the case) that collusion in voter intimidation should be ignored?
There is a lot of patently illegal stuff going on and simply because the lawbreakers lose elections does not pardon them from these crimes. IOW, the statute of limitations expires upon vacating the office? I used to work at XYZ Corporation and I stole things and sold corporate secrets. Am I free of legal liability for these crimes after I get fired?
We are moving way past "policy disagreements", have been for a long time.