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Opinion | This Indictment of Trump Does Something Ingenious (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Peaces@infosec.pub to c/politics@beehaw.org

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For anyone curious but not reading the article, a large part of the "something ingenious" seems to be RICO charges.

"Ms. Willis ties them all together by levying one charge against Mr. Trump and each of the 18 other defendants under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, or RICO, accusing Mr. Trump and his co-conspirators of functioning as a criminal gang.

American law has long recognized through the crime of conspiracy that combinations of criminals are more dangerous than lone wolves. RICO is conspiracy on steroids, providing for stiffer penalties and other advantages like bringing multiple loosely connected conspiracies under one umbrella.

Georgia has one of the most capacious RICO statutes in the country. "

It does sound exciting, maybe this will have been worth the wait. I'm not even American, but I don't think it's overstating things to say that the fate of the world is (at present) pretty tied into the fate of American democracy. Even the indirect ripple effects from something like this are huge

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

The one thing to note is that, with something like 20 defendants, it's going to be pretty slow getting to trial.