So remember a big reason for the second impeachment was to try to disqualify trump from holding future office. This Presidential records act Issue, which the archives has asked DOJ to investigate, has a very intriguing possibility.
Simplifying someone, people convicted of violating it are barred from hoarding future office. Now it has a very high intent requirement -you have to willfully break the law - but in “trumps” case we do know that he was advised repeatedly that he was breaking it.
You can foresee a possible resolution in which the DOJ charges him under that provision, goes for a conviction (I’ve written about that, and it would have to be very solid), But then seeks only the disqualification provision And no e.g. prison time. I tend to doubt
That the department and Garland would see them selves as qualified for that kind of grand and in fact political compromise; and yet it would make all kinds of sense.
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