The Trump administration plans to close the East Potomac Golf Course and park Nov. 15 with the intention of renovating the facility.
A federal judge said Saturday she intends to appoint an ex-top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital during Donald Trump’s first term to investigate whether she was purposefully misled by lawyers and administration officials in a lawsuit challenging one of his prized Washington construction projects, the renovation of a historic public golf course along the Potomac River.
Jessie Liu, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, would examine whether officials with the Interior Department and the National Park Service and attorneys with the Department of Justice violated ethics or misled U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes during the course of the case that was initiated in February by the DC Preservation League and two golfers.
… And this is the thing that perpetually pisses off voters. Of course we want to be sure laws are broken, and not operate on gut feelings & vibes. However, if this isn’t the shortest investigation in history, we should just start over. Stop trying to figure out who said what and when. You’ll never get to the bottom of it. There’s what “the administration” told the judge via its legal representatives, and what “the administration” did. That’s a pretty simple timeline, and it’s the administration who’s on trial - not any single person. If they want to argue it was a breakdown in communication, the answer should be, “that’s your problem, and not a reason against holding you accountable.” Once the administration is found guilty, we can get into who said/did what and when. Personally, I think the law should follow a “trickle up” approach in these matters. You find the highest ranked person you can prove did/said something actionable, and punish that person and their direct manager.
Disagree: showing that the little people will be held accountable is what starts to strip support from the big fish. Everyone who was involved should face the consequences of their actions.
I take your point, but I don’t think the higher ups care at all about the “little people.” The current tyrant has no problem throwing anybody under the bus. Hence my point of punishing not only the highest ranking person the evidence points to, but also their immediate manager. Obviously, if the immediate manager is the President, that makes things stickier, but I’m sure there’s plenty of corruption to be weeded out from the cabinet & Executive staff levels down.
Personally, I don’t want The Idiot impeached. If it’s successful, it gives Republicans 1-1.5 years to reset and try to put his dead weight in their past. I want his fuckery fresh in everybody’s memory when 2028 rolls around. As the recent election shows, he’s one of the best mouthpieces Democrats ever had!
ETA: Regaqrding the “little people:” You don’t have to go too far down to find a plain old civil servant who, like much of the rest of the country, can’t afford to sacrifice their job for their political principles. If one of them is the highest level the evidence points to, so be it, but I have a feeling most evidence will point either to someone appointed by the Idiot himself, or one of their immediate underlings - all of whom are straight-up political lackeys.
Perhaps you missed my point the first time: hold everyone accountable for their actions. That way, people understand supporting tyrants taking illegal actions isn’t profitable, for anyone.
No strategic hedging, full accountability, always.