* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Alabama expands entertainment incentives to boost state’s music and creative industries – Made in Alabama

    Alabama Supercharges Entertainment Incentives to Spark Explosive Growth in Music and Creative Industries

    Peacock’s Biggest Action Show Streams 2 New Episodes Sooner Than You Think – yahoo.com

    Peacock’s Hottest Action Show Drops 2 New Episodes Sooner Than Expected!

    Themed Entertainment Design – Purdue Polytechnic

    Innovative Themed Entertainment Design: Creating Immersive Experiences

    Rachael Leigh Cook and Brandon Routh ‘Happy to Have Found Each Other’ Following Respective Divorces – yahoo.com

    Rachael Leigh Cook and Brandon Routh ‘Happy to Have Found Each Other’ Following Respective Divorces – yahoo.com

    ‘Billie Jean’ – Hyde Park Herald

    The Enduring Magic Behind ‘Billie Jean’ Revealed

    Hank Hill returns to a changed world in new ‘King of the Hill’ episodes – New Haven Register

    Hank Hill Navigates a Bold New World in Thrilling New ‘King of the Hill’ Episodes

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Technology, History, and Summer Camp at the Rhode Island Computer Museum – abc6.com

    Discover Technology, History, and Summer Camp Adventures at the Rhode Island Computer Museum

    MBU showcases student work at Occupational Therapy Technology Fair – WHSV

    Discover the Most Innovative Student Projects at the Occupational Therapy Technology Fair

    BlackSky Technology Inc. (BKSY) Reports Q2 Loss, Lags Revenue Estimates – Yahoo Finance

    BlackSky Technology Inc. Reports Q2 Loss, Misses Revenue Targets

    Improved Technology Access: A Key to Closing the Healthcare Gap for African Americans – BIOENGINEER.ORG

    LMI Expands Technology Org, Appoints New Leaders – GovCon Wire

    LMI Expands Technology Team with Dynamic New Leadership Appointments

    Midland Innovation and Technology Charter School closing down – CBS News

    Midland Innovation and Technology Charter School Closes Permanently

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Alabama expands entertainment incentives to boost state’s music and creative industries – Made in Alabama

    Alabama Supercharges Entertainment Incentives to Spark Explosive Growth in Music and Creative Industries

    Peacock’s Biggest Action Show Streams 2 New Episodes Sooner Than You Think – yahoo.com

    Peacock’s Hottest Action Show Drops 2 New Episodes Sooner Than Expected!

    Themed Entertainment Design – Purdue Polytechnic

    Innovative Themed Entertainment Design: Creating Immersive Experiences

    Rachael Leigh Cook and Brandon Routh ‘Happy to Have Found Each Other’ Following Respective Divorces – yahoo.com

    Rachael Leigh Cook and Brandon Routh ‘Happy to Have Found Each Other’ Following Respective Divorces – yahoo.com

    ‘Billie Jean’ – Hyde Park Herald

    The Enduring Magic Behind ‘Billie Jean’ Revealed

    Hank Hill returns to a changed world in new ‘King of the Hill’ episodes – New Haven Register

    Hank Hill Navigates a Bold New World in Thrilling New ‘King of the Hill’ Episodes

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Technology, History, and Summer Camp at the Rhode Island Computer Museum – abc6.com

    Discover Technology, History, and Summer Camp Adventures at the Rhode Island Computer Museum

    MBU showcases student work at Occupational Therapy Technology Fair – WHSV

    Discover the Most Innovative Student Projects at the Occupational Therapy Technology Fair

    BlackSky Technology Inc. (BKSY) Reports Q2 Loss, Lags Revenue Estimates – Yahoo Finance

    BlackSky Technology Inc. Reports Q2 Loss, Misses Revenue Targets

    Improved Technology Access: A Key to Closing the Healthcare Gap for African Americans – BIOENGINEER.ORG

    LMI Expands Technology Org, Appoints New Leaders – GovCon Wire

    LMI Expands Technology Team with Dynamic New Leadership Appointments

    Midland Innovation and Technology Charter School closing down – CBS News

    Midland Innovation and Technology Charter School Closes Permanently

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Science

Trump indictments: How to tell if they’re ‘political’

August 10, 2023
in Science
Trump indictments: How to tell if they’re ‘political’
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

If former President Donald Trump has a core defense against the indictments accumulating against him, it is that prosecutors are after him not for what he has done, but for who he is. He’s the faraway front-runner for the GOP nomination, and he’s the candidate Democrats fear most.

There is no easy way to sever political concerns from legal ones in the Trump cases.

Why We Wrote This

Do recent indictments of Donald Trump reflect overdue legal accountability or unfair attacks by political rivals? The electorate is polarized, but some see ways to sift the difficult questions at play.

It is true that President Joe Biden appointed the attorney general who appointed special counsel Jack Smith. Many state and local prosecutors in the United States are elected, including those behind lawsuits filed in New York and expected in Georgia against Mr. Trump.

To maintain faith in the American legal system, prosecutors in the Trump cases must be extra-vigilant to try to prove their actions are driven by the law, not by politics, say some experts.

Beyond potential influence on the 2024 elections, “the bigger concerns have to do with people’s faith in and trust in political institutions,” says political scientist William Howell. In 2024, “the stakes are big, and they’re much bigger than Trump’s own political fate and legal fate,” he says.

If former President Donald Trump has a core defense against the indictments accumulating against him, it is that prosecutors are after him not for what he has done, but for who he is.

Mr. Trump and his allies have long argued that the federal and state charges he now faces are a coordinated political effort to derail his 2024 presidential campaign. It’s obvious, he says – he’s the faraway front-runner for the GOP nomination, and he’s the candidate Democrats fear most.

“When you look at what’s happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in America,” Mr. Trump said last week after pleading not guilty to four counts of attempting to overturn the 2020 vote.

Why We Wrote This

Do recent indictments of Donald Trump reflect overdue legal accountability or unfair attacks by political rivals? The electorate is polarized, but some see ways to sift the difficult questions at play.

Prosecutors and Trump opponents dismiss that framing as an attempt by the former president to evade accountability for past actions. He chose to run for the Oval Office again, announcing early in an effort to establish a political shield, they say. Mr. Trump is arguing in essence that he is above the law, his opposition says.

But the bottom line, say some legal experts, is that there is no easy way to sever political concerns from legal ones in the Trump cases.

It is true that President Joe Biden appointed the attorney general who appointed special counsel Jack Smith. Many state and local prosecutors in the United States are elected, including the Democratic Manhattan district attorney suing Mr. Trump on charges related to paying hush money to a porn star, and the Democratic Atlanta-area district attorney reportedly set to indict Mr. Trump on election charges next week.

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks in Washington on May 4, 2023, about verdicts for people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

To maintain faith in the American legal system, prosecutors in the Trump cases must be extra-vigilant to try to prove their actions are driven by the law, not by politics, say some experts. The problem is that the nation faces a rocky road ahead as the Trump cases progress. Many voters in a polarized nation might judge not pursuing the former president as a political choice of sorts. Another large chunk might believe the opposite.

“Any kind of election crime is going to be inherently political,” says Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor and political scientist at Georgia State University in Atlanta. “There are going to be political actors involved, political parties, candidates with partisan affiliation, so there are going to be those overtones present no matter what.”

Amid polarized reactions, any clarity?

Polls on perception of politics in the Trump indictments show a predictably divided American electorate. 

An ABC News/Ipsos survey released last week found that 46% of respondents said yes when asked if the election charges brought against Mr. Trump by special counsel Smith were politically motivated. Forty percent said no and 14% said they did not know.

Overall, 51% of respondents said the election charges were “very serious” in the ABC survey (14% said they were “somewhat serious”). Results were highly skewed along partisan lines: Eighty-four percent of Democrats and 53% of independents said the charges were very serious, but only 19% of Republicans.

This split reflects the nature of the defendant in this case. He is not a mayor brought up on tax charges or a county supervisor’s wife charged with voter fraud intended to boost her husband. He is one of the most famous people in the nation – arguably in the world – who commands the loyalty of millions of voters and the rapt attention of thousands of journalists.

Mr. Trump has the power to amplify his objections to his situation far beyond that of typical targets of the Justice Department or local prosecutors. But that is not a reason to refrain from pursuing allegations against him, says Kristy Parker, counsel at the Washington nonprofit Protect Democracy and a former federal civil rights prosecutor. 

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a recent campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire.

“If we allow ourselves to have a system where if somebody is politically popular or has a large following and a capacity to try the case in the media, if we walk away from those sorts of people, that’s basically creating an immunity for our political class,” says Ms. Parker.

Last month Protect Democracy released what it terms a guide to determining whether the federal charges against Mr. Trump represent politicized justice or accountability. Boiled down, the guide asks three questions. 

First, is there evidence suggesting political interference with the Justice Department investigation? 

Second, is there evidence to support the indictment, and is Mr. Trump being treated as others in a similar situation would be?

Third, are courts and judges upholding Justice Department actions?

The analysis argues that all these criteria have been met – that President Biden has insulated himself from the federal cases, the cases are solid, and the legal system is working. 

“Based on what we currently know, the answers to these key questions support the conclusion that an independent Justice Department is properly seeking to hold Trump accountable,” says Protect Democracy in its guide.

One risk: a cycle of retaliation

Mr. Trump and his supporters would vehemently disagree with that conclusion. The former president has long lumped in the legal investigations of his actions with the Russia investigation and his impeachments as a connected string of “witch hunts” directed by his political opponents.

An attendee holds a hat hinting at a potential rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, while waiting for former President Trump to speak in Windham, New Hampshire, Aug. 8, 2023.

President Biden in fact keeps a close eye on the Trump legal proceedings and is ultimately responsible for their beginning, say Trump supporters. In a legal filing last week, the Trump legal team charged that an image of the president holding a “Dark Brandon” mug, posted on social media, was an oblique comment on Mr. Trump’s federal indictments.

The First Amendment and the Electoral Count Act will ultimately derail the prosecutions, says Mike Davis, a lawyer and president of the Article III Project, a Washington judicial nonprofit. He says that President Biden greenlighted the “lawfare” against his likely GOP opponent and is very much behind it.

“This is unprecedented, and highly destructive to the American democracy that Democrats are pretending to protect,” Mr. Davis says.

In a way, the damage may already have been done, he adds.

“There’s no going back now. There is no chance that Republicans are not going to retaliate,” Mr. Davis says.

That echoes the fears of many Trump opponents – that a cycle of political retaliation could swirl out of the current prosecutions. If Mr. Trump wins in 2024, he could attempt to pardon himself, or derail ongoing cases against him. Then he could break through the guardrails that are intended to separate the Justice Department from the White House and personally direct U.S. law enforcement decisions.

Currently the Trump indictments appear likely to help the former president solidify his grip on the GOP presidential nomination. Their effect on a general election is less obvious, but could well depress his vote, according to current polling.

“The bigger concerns have to do with people’s faith in and trust in political institutions,” says William Howell, a political science professor and director of the Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago.

Whoever wins the next presidential election, a large slice of the electorate may see the outcome as a crushing loss and reflective of decay in the American political system. Mr. Trump’s hold on the GOP might tighten further – or fall apart. The health of American democracy might appear to be in question.

In 2024, “the stakes are big, and they’re much bigger than Trump’s own political fate and legal fate,” says Professor Howell.

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : The Christian Science Monitor – https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2023/0809/Trump-indictments-How-to-tell-if-they-re-political?icid=rss

Tags: indictmentsscienceTrump
Previous Post

At least 36 dead in Hawaii wildfires, tourists evacuated

Next Post

Deadly wildfires on Maui incinerate important historical site

Test your campfire cooking skills at the 2025 World Champion Squirrel Cook Off Sept. 13 – Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

Take Your Campfire Cooking to the Next Level at the 2025 World Champion Squirrel Cook-Off on September 13!

August 9, 2025
Wall Street’s view of a ‘Kevlar economy’ has just been shattered, but red flags were lurking under the radar – Fortune

Wall Street’s ‘Kevlar Economy’ Myth Exposed: The Hidden Red Flags You Need to Know

August 9, 2025
Alabama expands entertainment incentives to boost state’s music and creative industries – Made in Alabama

Alabama Supercharges Entertainment Incentives to Spark Explosive Growth in Music and Creative Industries

August 9, 2025
Income and education show distinct links to health and happiness in daily life – Nature

How Income and Education Uniquely Shape Your Health and Happiness Every Day

August 9, 2025
US intel agency reviewing Grok video filmed during man’s commute to secure NSA facility – CNN

US Intelligence Agency Investigates Grok Video Captured During Man’s Commute to Secure NSA Facility

August 9, 2025
Closed pulp mill fined $2.3 million for environmental violations – Washington State Department of Ecology (.gov)

Closed pulp mill fined $2.3 million for environmental violations – Washington State Department of Ecology (.gov)

August 9, 2025
‘Miracle’ medicine, based in federally funded science, arrived just in time to save his life – Newsroom | UCLA

‘Miracle’ medicine, based in federally funded science, arrived just in time to save his life – Newsroom | UCLA

August 9, 2025
Cartoonist’s take: ‘RFK Jr. cuts vaccine science’ – Daily Freeman

Cartoonist’s take: ‘RFK Jr. cuts vaccine science’ – Daily Freeman

August 9, 2025
Ancient Dental Plaque Unearths Prehistoric People’s Lifestyle – the-scientist.com

Ancient Dental Plaque Unearths Prehistoric People’s Lifestyle – the-scientist.com

August 9, 2025
Technology, History, and Summer Camp at the Rhode Island Computer Museum – abc6.com

Discover Technology, History, and Summer Camp Adventures at the Rhode Island Computer Museum

August 9, 2025

Categories

Archives

August 2025
MTWTFSS
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Jul    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (761)
  • Economy (784)
  • Entertainment (21,661)
  • General (16,363)
  • Health (9,824)
  • Lifestyle (794)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (785)
  • Politics (794)
  • Science (15,997)
  • Sports (21,281)
  • Technology (15,764)
  • World (767)

Recent News

Test your campfire cooking skills at the 2025 World Champion Squirrel Cook Off Sept. 13 – Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

Take Your Campfire Cooking to the Next Level at the 2025 World Champion Squirrel Cook-Off on September 13!

August 9, 2025
Wall Street’s view of a ‘Kevlar economy’ has just been shattered, but red flags were lurking under the radar – Fortune

Wall Street’s ‘Kevlar Economy’ Myth Exposed: The Hidden Red Flags You Need to Know

August 9, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version