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In reply to the discussion: We're in for a turbulent future [View all]wnylib
(21,704 posts)The Hague, but the vast majority of Americans would oppose it very strongly. Americans will not accept the validity of foreign involvement in American criminal charges. Trumpists and other Republicans plus RW Independents would claim that it was the same as our complaint about Trump asking Ukraine and China to investigate Biden. It's not the same, of course, but the general public would not see the difference or nuances. They would hear the RW spin and believe it. For many people, it would be the same as surrendering our sovreignty to foreign powers.
This is something we need to do internally, ourselves. But we would need legal people of the quality that we had at Nuremburg. Ever see the film Judgment at Nuremburg? Spencer Tracy makes a point during the trial and emphasizes it in his summation, that the first time the defendents gave in to the demands and pressures around them was their first crime that led them into the rest.
I could see Adam Schiff in the role Tracy played in making the line between legal and illegal clear and significant in taking a whole nation down the wrong road.