"Nobody Is Above the Law"--Except the Biggest Corporate and Goverment Criminals
Law schools should have courses on the expanding immunities of government and corporate officials from criminal prosecution and punishment. Guest lecturers, speaking from their experience, could be Donald J. Trump, George W. Bush (criminal destruction of Iraq), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the Sackler Family of opioid infamy, and the top officials at Boeing, led by its CEO Dennis Muilenburg, for the 346 homicides in their deadly 737 MAX aircraft.
They should all be charged in varying degrees with manslaughter. Note how the definition fits the facts on the ground:
Reckless homicide is a crime in which the perpetrators were aware that their act (or failure to act when there is a legal duty to act) creates significant risk of death or grievous bodily harm in the victim, but ignores the risk and continues to act (or fail to act), and a human death results.
Trump violated willfully and repeatedly so many laws, including obstruction of justice, that it would take a large well-staffed special prosecutors office to handle his offenses. (Bidens Attorney General, Merrick Garland, has decided to immunize Trump by doing nothing). (See, Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, June 17, 2021).
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/08/14/nobody-above-law-except-biggest-corporate-and-goverment-criminals
Timewas
(2,193 posts)Not gonna happen, too many have already gotten away with it...BUT US is hero of the world for our "Rule of Law"
Nululu
(840 posts)pfitz59
(10,377 posts)Why obey the rules when those at the top are not held accountable?