• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      He’s dropping them now because its the only move that might revive them when Trump is out. If his old ass lives that long.

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      He is making a pragmatic decision that any reasonable lawyer would make.

      DOJ policy is to drop a case like this. If he ignored policy then he would be fired by February before the case would even proceed. So no matter what he does, the case is dead and at least he got to write some words down. Basically the same as the three resonable justices on SCOTUS who have no power to do anything beyond write dissenting opinions that might matter sometime in the future.

      It sucks, but Republicans have completed their coup from within the US government.

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      He wasn’t threatened with anything January 6th has always been a dog and pony show to keep Democrats riled up against Republicans in the hope that Democrats will stay in power. The oligarchy will never charge one of its own

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          10 hours ago

          They may fight amongst themselves, but they would never do anything to harm other people amongst their own class.

          The one thing the oligarchy does understand that the working class does not is class solidarity. Dog and pony shows like January 6th keeps class solidarity fragmented amongst the working class