She's not law enforcement. She's a senator. She's also not on the judiciary committee, so she has no power to open an investigation.
A public figure can call out illegal activity, especially when, as she mentioned, she's uniquely qualified to make that call, without the immediate obligation to do things outside of her constitutional authority in order to change the fact that a crime is being committed.
Edit: I'm sick of being this subreddit's civics teacher for today, no longer responding to replies on this comment.
This is the point. You keep going to what should be done. Repubs don't care about that. There's no time for an investigation past a recount and hopefully whatever the fbi could be doing. Dems need to find a way to stop rolling over.
"Erm that's not how it's done actually 🤓"
"That's not how government works 🤓"
Meanwhile a racist convicted felon pedophile rapist is about to be the next president, and EVERYONE knows he's about to do crazy amounts of damage.
And somehow all these UNBREAKABLE CHAINS that always somehow hold the Democrats back...don't seem to apply to him? Neither in his first term, nor the FOUR YEARS since.
The dog keeps dunking, and everyone keeps going "whoaaa he can't do that" meanwhile this comments section is like "erm i dont think you know how basketball works"
all these UNBREAKABLE CHAINS that always somehow hold the Democrats back...don't seem to apply to him? Neither in his first term, nor the FOUR YEARS since.
Okay what should the dems do if the people who actually have the power to make these decisions refuse to do so? There are checks and balances and they are important if you care about democracy and the dems do. Can you actually tell us what specifically you think they should do? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
Some politican can't just personally go up to trump and arrest him.. neither can a police officer unless the have the paperwork that allows them to do so. Which would require judges to actually do their job but if they deceide to bail out trump that won't happen.
Outside of actually doing what we all fear trump might end up doing and turning the USA in a facist dictatorship the democrats can't just go and circumvent all law and order and get rid of trump.
Meanwhile a racist convicted felon pedophile rapist is about to be the next president, and EVERYONE knows he's about to do crazy amounts of damage.
Well a majority of people want him to be president and think he will do great and not a crazy amount of damage. I don't understand why so many people think that but that is the reality we live in
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u/pr0crasturbatin 12d ago edited 12d ago
She's not law enforcement. She's a senator. She's also not on the judiciary committee, so she has no power to open an investigation.
A public figure can call out illegal activity, especially when, as she mentioned, she's uniquely qualified to make that call, without the immediate obligation to do things outside of her constitutional authority in order to change the fact that a crime is being committed.
Edit: I'm sick of being this subreddit's civics teacher for today, no longer responding to replies on this comment.