29 (twenty-nine) months (the ones with 28-31 days) after January 6 (the attempt to overturn our democratic election that “culminated”, if you will, on Jan. 6, 2021):
There is, finally, fantastic news, courtesy of not the DOJ, but the Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney’s office:
CBS News: At least 8 fake electors have immunity in Georgia election probe
This is the first real good news on this topic since, well, Jan. 6. Just taking it at face value: prosecutors will offer immunity to a potential target of prosecution, when that target can offer them information against a higher-value target, leading to more significant prosecution of law-breakers further up the chain. Assuming that’s what we’re getting here, this is the type of progress we want to see toward holding the Jan. 6 conspirators criminally accountable. Thank goodness someone, somewhere, is getting it done.
However, the “someone” is not the DOJ, but the office of the District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia. No doubt the taxpayers of Fulton County supply the office with vast resources, enabling it to make much faster progress in this investigation than, say, the United States Department of Justice (which I’m sure is holding bake sales to pay for their Special Prosecutor).
And speaking of faster progress, an update courtesy of Daily Kos:
Trump's big mouth is finally getting him in (legal) trouble
This week also brought news that the Georgia election fraud probe—built around Trump's recorded demand that the Republican secretary of state "find" the votes to beat Joe Biden—is reportedly expanding into examining Trump's activities in other states and the District of Columbia.
The Washington Post calls the news a "fresh sign" that Fulton County prosecutors and District Attorney Fani Willis could be building an expansive racketeering case against Trump.
Durned if that Fani woman’s name isn’t popping up again. Golly, doesn’t she like to roll up her sleeves and get things done!
To include, running laps around the DOJ on an investigation of multi-state election fraud. Not Fulton County. Not Georgia. An investigation across multiple states (and Washington, D.C.).
It sounds as if Ms. Willis has exposed a gap in our justice system. If only there were an organization that were tasked with investigating and prosecuting criminal activities that occurred across multiple states, so it would not be left to individual county District Attorneys to do so. Such an organization might enjoy the benefit of funding via the US federal government, which I hear has a hefty budget. It might even, and this is a stretch, but it might possibly even prioritize cases where the criminal activity in question was of significant threat to, say, the country as a whole.
Perhaps we could create an organization like this, and it could be called something like, the “Department of Justice”.
Of course, the problem is not that this organization does not exist. The problem is the DOJ does exist, but it is doing nothing whatsoever commensurate with either the resources at its disposal, or the magnitude of the threat, to meet the nation’s need.
At least we have Ms. Willis and her team.