Aerial view of Mar-a-Lago, October 6, 2021. (Formulanone, https://tinyurl.com/yebzzvxb; CC BY-NC-SA S.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode). The indictment of former President Donald J. Trump that was unsealed today by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida represents a beginning in several distinct senses.
It is, at one level, the beginning of a single criminal proceeding: an indictment which alleges discrete crimes against two individuals, one of whom happens to have served as President of the United States.
It is also, however, the beginning of the broader effort to use federal criminal law as a vehicle of accountability for Trump’s behavior—both in […]
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