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Reflections on Trump’s Justice Department

We learn here and here that Trump is having people arrested for allegedly causing the growth of algae in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pond. At the first link we’re told an old man riding a bike (I can sympathize, that describes me) was charged because he dipped his hands into the pool. We’re furnished other examples at the second link. These people are being arrested for harmless actions they took days after the harm they are alleged to have caused took place.

I only handled a few criminal cases in my lengthy career at an attorney, but I’m fairly sure that had I represented one of these defendants I’d be preparing to file a civil rights action against the prosecutor once the client was acquitted. I do hope that if these cases ever actually get to court, for even Jeanine Pirro may think twice about prosecuting them, that the presiding judge will relieve the prosecuting attorneys of their right to practice law.