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Dismissed, but not with prejudice as I recall so it's still possible to take the findings and bring a case again for the same charges. If they're released now at least it makes it more difficult for them to get 'lost' by the incoming DOJ and could be used in the future.
Trump will be 82 when the possibility of bringing this back up presents itself. And then he and his lawyers will drag it out for years, and then he'll be dead or so old that he'll be alllowed to spend the sentence at home. Meanwhile, the damage he's about to unleash will be done and generations of Americans will suffer from the consequences.
The time to throw Trump behind bars was before the elections, not after. Anything anyone does now is utterly pointless.
Theoretically, Trump could be impeached if the findings are particularly damning. It's not at all likely with the current composition of Congress, but there is another election in 2026. Provided with enough outrage, Democrats could....
Sorry I just passed out from a copium overdose.
Perhaps so, but with the way our system holds onto precedent for reference in the future even a pointless conviction saying the president doesn't have absolute immunity is important to the future. That could be pointed to the next time a Trump-esq sort comes in and starts such BS and used in a new trial or impeachment.
Basically, even if it doesn't do anything to him personally, it could set a guardrail for future years.
But only for a few years. Case in point: neo-Nazis in Germany and genocidal Israeli. If anybody should have stainless steel, bomb-proof guardrails, it's those two. And yet...
Well... Anything that Lemmy's ToS allows us to talk about, at least.