What This Country Needs Is More Laws

I’ve never been a reactive “lock ‘em up” type. But this Durham report is a lock ‘em up moment. We should be looking for statutes that apply to these egregious violations of public trust. If they don’t exist, it’s time we create them so it never happens again.

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) May 17, 2023

"I’m not a ‘lock ‘em up!’ guy, but…lock ‘em up!”

Pretty sure Durham spent four years “looking for statutes that apply to these ‘egregious violations of public trust.’” Maybe reading the entire report would help.

And speaking of egregious violations of public trust, what do you call threatening the full faith and credit of the United States of America for partisan political purposes? Asking for a friend.

Yeah, criminalizing “egregious violations of public trust” isn’t as easy as it sounds.

Aside from the inconvenient facts you ignore, like two failed criminal trials, and now an egregious violation of public trust by a prosecutor who refuses to accept the results of those trials.

It's not just two juries that told John Durham his false statements claims are legally unsupported. Judge Anthony Trenga literally judged that one of his purported false claims was literally true.

And yet Durham repeated it in his report anyway.

You gotta call that out.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 17, 2023

Should we criminalize that? Why, or why not?

Idiot.