Why do I feel like the very social media arrogance that makes it so easy to identify the Capitol invaders will be used to convince more than one jury that the perp wasn’t aware that they were breaking laws?
A fitting echo of Trump never being as harshly judged for what he did in the open than he would have been if he tried to conceal it.
Ignorance of the law is not a defense if you are a black woman unclear of their voting status in Texas. But I’ll bet it works to some degree for some here.
Look, Don Jr was let off the hook by Mueller because of ignorance of the law, so I wouldn’t have high hope that standard will apply equally across the hundreds of cases that plea out.
And maybe I’m just too cynical here but I have trouble picturing local Republican DA’s and Trump judges getting too carried away with the punishments for local politicians, cops, firefighters, and chamber of commerce stalwarts caught in the act of anything but murder.
Hell, have ANY Republicans issued the sort of bellicose vows to hunt the perpetrators down in their hidey holes? You know what the tone would be if this was an attack by foreign terrorists.
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