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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Smith wants to get a trial before the election. Willis can be less worried about that, in part because there's nobody to pardon Trump for her charges.
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If you think that Trump will face a criminal trial in GA if he's elected President, you're daft.
Lawyers like to think the code of the law is paramount. It isn't. It's at its best an attempt to put all men on equal footing, a leveler against the organic and ever present law of power. At its worst, which it more frequently is, the law is an enabler of those who seek to use the law of power without suffering the opprobrium or risk that comes with its traditional brute applications. (That's why the federal law in this country favors property rights above all else.)
I don't know how the law of GA will knuckle under to the law of power in the event Trump should win, but it will. Maybe it'll be a delay of the case until his term is done, a defunding of Willis, Smith losing on appeal to SCOTUS and Willis' case being deemed double jeopardy... It may be novel, or it may be a boring. But the President will not be subjected to trial by a state prosecutor while in office. Ain't gonna happen. Too destabilizing and too many constitutional crises in such a thing. Power will be brought down at state and fed level and Willis will either drop or delay.
