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Senator Menendez was indicted once before. Here's a history of his legal woes
The prior indictment came a decade ago. Menendez has long been a target of prosecutors but has never been convicted of a crime.
www.northjersey.com
Read the whole thing. The list is impressive. As is the dropped investigations
Man you're in a lather tonight,lol...Franken had something like 10 accusers against him....Dems gotta virtue signal ya know. That's their thing. As I remember some of them regretted throwing him under the bus later.
Personally I though SNL was at his best when he was there...So there's that. What's a little ass grab to a few staffers anyways right?
Has the Supreme Court Legalized Public Corruption?
By making it harder to punish official misconduct, the justices risk damage to America's republican institutions.
www.theatlantic.com
Here is an article about how recent(at that time) SCOTUS rulings hobbled corruption investigations and directly affected his trial in 2017.
So yes, the system protected him(and protects others)
Blagojevich Lesson: Hard To Convict Politicians Of Corruption - The Crime Report
The mistrial on most of the 24 counts brought against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich proved something that prosecutors know: It’s hard to convict politicians in corruption cases, reports National Public Radio. The fact that much of the public believes that most, if not all, politicians are...
thecrimereport.org
More for you uninformed types
Supreme Court throws out convictions in sweeping New York corruption probe
In two rulings the court delivered a blow to the Justice Department's efforts to root out public corruption.
More for you
It’s getting harder to prosecute politicians for corruption
A legal scholar looks at the new and narrowed definition of bribery by the US Supreme Court. In the future, will politicians doing favors for donors and friends ever be prosecuted for corruption?
theconversation.com
And more from the SCOTUS.
Same legal obstacle that got Sen. Bob Menendez off the hook in 2015 factors into new indictment
Menendez was previously accused by New Jersey federal prosecutors of using his influence to help Salomon Melgen in exchange for gifts and campaign contributions.
nypost.com
More information how narrowing of definitions has legalized obvious corruption
Dude are you that immoral?
They discarded him because of impropriety, something the repugs never do.
Same as they did with Franken. Same as they'll do with Menendez.
Same as the repugs don't do with trump or with George Santos or MTG or Boebert or anybody else. They are power whores and you support them no matter what.
No impropriety is too big. No excuse too lame.
Both parties. And they protected them and used taxpayer dollars to do it.
More facts.
The US DOJ has a tremendous conviction rate. Like 98%, if you count pleas. 10 years ago like 93%. This means rarely do they go forward unless they got game, set, match. That's not an incompetent DOJ.
It only seems so to those like jim jordan trying to protect trump. Jim Jordan was at the December 18 meeting where the insurrection was planned. Hence he's involved. Hence he's fighting like hell to discredit and obstruct that investigation. It's not that hard to figure out. However, if you get your news only from fox you would not know that. I will say I was watching msnbc in an airport lounge and it was 20 straight minutes of coverage of the Menendez case, and no one was calling it corrupt or a witch hunt. Similarly in the next airport CNN was covering it the same way.
The US DOJ has a tremendous conviction rate. Like 98%, if you count pleas. 10 years ago like 93%. This means rarely do they go forward unless they got game, set, match. That's not an incompetent DOJ.
It only seems so to those like jim jordan trying to protect trump. Jim Jordan was at the December 18 meeting where the insurrection was planned. Hence he's involved. Hence he's fighting like hell to discredit and obstruct that investigation. It's not that hard to figure out. However, if you get your news only from fox you would not know that. I will say I was watching msnbc in an airport lounge and it was 20 straight minutes of coverage of the Menendez case, and no one was calling it corrupt or a witch hunt. Similarly in the next airport CNN was covering it the same way.
He was found by a court after hear evidence and any defense he chose to mount to be a sexual abuser. You are correct that he was not found to have raped her. Sexualbabuser is perhaps not quite as bad but hardly the stuff of people who want to be the president of all Americans including women.
Rump took Carroll to court for her saying he raped her.''The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. The judgment adds to Trump’s legal woes and offers vindication to Carroll, whose allegations had been mocked and dismissed by Trump for years''
Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M
A jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Jurors awarded her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House. The verdict was announced in a federal courtroom in New York City on...apnews.com
The judge ruled E Carroll is correct to say that trump raped her.
trump is a rapist.
Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is ‘substantially true’ in court dismissal
Ex-president claimed that writer defamed him when saying he raped her, but judge said term is commonly ‘used and understood’ in context
www.theguardian.com
I still find it disappointing that more Democrats, including Joe Biden, have not come forward and asked that Menendez step down. I would have expected it to be unanimous.
Growing number of Senate Democrats call on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign
A growing number of Senate Democrats are calling for the resignation of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez.
abcnews.go.com
I doubt he has any evidence of prosecutorial ineptitude, but that could well be the case.
The corruption laws being fucked up though, that's real.
In fact, the Supreme Court ruling that made it basically impossible to convict for bribery and corruption without it being a sack of money with a dollar sign on it and a written statements saying "pass this bill for me" came out right around the same time as the Menendez mistrial and most people feel that's why the DOJ didn't try that first case again - a whole section of their case was explicitly taken away from them.
(That Clarence Thomas ruled that the kind of kickbacks Clarence Thomas has been getting can't be charged as bribery is surely a coincidence.)
The fact that the DOJ has brought another case against him despite the new rulings seems to show Menendez (and his wife) have been even more brazen and stupid about their corruption.
The combination of it being round 2, worse behavior and better evidence, a very different political environment in NJ, a different one nationally, and just new people in office are all combining to have the Dems be much more united in trying to pressure him out on their own instead of being far more muted (and some even supportive) as they were in 2017.
These things tend to be a slow build up over time.I still find it disappointing that more Democrats, including Joe Biden, have not come forward and asked that Menendez step down. I would have expected it to be unanimous.
Growing number of Senate Democrats call on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign
A growing number of Senate Democrats are calling for the resignation of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez.
And Biden - since it is a sitting Senator - is almost certainly not going to call on him to resign since it would be a breach of the separation of powers.
