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Expects Yuge Games
I don't know if optics or sympathy for a defendant's circumstances should be the overriding consideration. Menendez' wife is being treated for breast cancer. Does that give her a pass for any crimes she may have committed. Her trial has been postponed while she is being treated. That seems right. I don't think the charges should be dropped.The optics of Biden going after Trump after the assassination attempt would be dreadful. So he won't do it.
I don't think Biden has any immediate decision to make on this case. Judge Cannon's ruling will be appealed, a process that is going to go on for while. It is worth getting a ruling from the Supreme Court on whether the independent prosecutor mechanism is constitutional.
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