It's still valuable to point out that the crimes of this administration are crimes. They aren't going to stop doing them until they are stopped. But framing their crimes as expected implies they are normal and of no particular consequence.
This one thing is, all by itself, worthy of impeachment and prison sentences for the people who abetted it. Add it to the list, and don't downplay even the small ones. If we're going to come out the other side of this every one of these violations matters and will need to be accounted for.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if there actually were any penalties. Turns out there are. Among others:
Whoever, having the custody of any such
record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper,
or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies,
or destroys the same, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than three years,
or both
A different section allows prison terms of up to 10 years, but only if the "market value" of that data is high enough. I'm not sure if this data actually has a market value, but it is still a legal requirement to preserve.
Can you please be more specific about which administration you mean? This investigating administration, or this investigated administration? They are both equally worthless to me, but I could be convinced to care.
The part where they keep having judges reject the spurious arguments? People are getting rehired because Trump broke the law firing them. USAID was ordered to be reopened because they broke the law.
It’s not perfect, or enough, but we should stand up for the rule of law rather than trying to score Internet points by cynically conceding it.
I’m not saying anything about this is good, but I do think there are a lot of people who think following the law is important and we can use each and every one of them. Blatantly ignoring the law is how they lose suburban middle class voters and we don’t need too many of them to flip elections.
In many respects the rule of law was broken long ago through judicial activism.
The whirlwind we face today is an inevitable outcome from the consequences of those choices.
There are specific components required by a rule of law which are not met. It was conceded by past generations that still hold political power today as a cohort.
Edit: Do feel free to not believe me and in doing so dig into the details and prove me wrong.
A "rule by law" is the system that lacks the components required by a "rule of law". This former is the same as any totalitarian or fascist state.
Given the time horizon of case resolution, when you can find more than 3 instances of failures relating to the judicial branch within a few years, in each court, where the components are not true, then its failed. 3 is sufficient to be statistically significant within a short time horizon.
Not a pleasant thought, but neither is burying your head in the sand thinking it will be better that you not see something, while at the same time choosing to become meat for the hungry lion that you didn't want to see.
