“There’s no excuse for having those documents in Mar-a-Lago. It clearly violates the law. The expectation is that when you leave office the documents that you have are the possession of the United States of America.”
In an interview with WTTW News, Holder said that the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and the discovery of a hoard of classified documents had increased the former president’s legal jeopardy.“There’s no excuse for having those documents in Mar-a-Lago,” said Holder. “It clearly violates the law. The expectation is that when you leave office the documents that you have are the possession of the United States of America.
He also dismissed Trump’s claim that the Department of Justice and the FBI had been “weaponized” against him. “To those who wreaked havoc in our Capitol today, you did not win,” declared a triumphant Mike Pence, whom the insurrectionists had threatened to hang because he hadn’t been willing to overrule the Electoral College and install President Trump for another four years.
After all, as I mentioned in the note at the beginning of the book, this Trumpified Republican Party just isn’t all that into democracy—regardless of its impact on their electoral prospects—because their priority isn’t exercising the will of the people; it’s accruing the power to implement their agenda whether or not it’s aligned with the will of the people.
In his majority ruling, Justice Samuel Alito demonstrated a radical understanding of voting rights. Unlike in past decisions, where the court had consistently expressed a belief that barriers to the ballot should be looked at as suspect, Justice Alito’s opinion attempted to normalize them.
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