By Sniffles
If you were hoping that Benedict Donald's (extremely lopsided-and-bipartisan-on-the-side-of-"guilty") impeachment acquittal would lead to wronged parties dragging his giant butt into court, it looks like that's starting to happen.
The NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against Trump and Rudy Giuliani, accusing them of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 in attempting to prevent certification of the election. The suit also names the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — you know, the guys who fly that "Blue Lives Matter" flag while they beat, kill and maim police officers?
While it's not quite an impeachment conviction, it's pretty great, and we hope more lawsuits will follow. Benedict Donald is allegedly more worried about civil and criminal cases, like this one and the one in Georgia, than he was about impeachment. And there are plenty of folks who could join the party: the families of Officer Brian Sicknick or any of the injured cops, Capitol Hill staffers who were traumatized by the event, and on and on.
Nevertheless, it would have been nice if the Constitutional remedies for such Presidential misconduct had been allowed to work. But the current state of the GOP makes that impossible. It's also worrisome for the future of the country: How can we function if one of the two major political parties no longer believes in democracy?
Back when Trump started making noises about not accepting the election results, lots of pundits were quoting Benjamin Franklin's famous riposte: "A republic, Madam, if you can keep it." But another Founder, John Adams, weighed in on that subject, too:
"Posterity!" he wrote. "You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it."
Hoping Adams is not yet repenting, we cats PURR.
IMAGE: Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News
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