The step complies with long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Summary

With Donald Trump’s re-election, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is preparing to suspend federal criminal cases against him, as longstanding policy bars prosecuting a sitting president.

Special counsel Jack Smith, who previously pressed forward on charges related to January 6 and classified documents, must now consider unwinding these cases.

The DOJ’s stance follows a 2000 memo suggesting impeachment, not prosecution, as the proper recourse for a sitting president.

Trump’s legal team is also strategizing to dismiss or delay other cases, viewing his victory as a mandate to end “weaponization” of the justice system.

  • P_PEnglish
    48•2 hours ago

    He got away with it all.

  • @sensiblepuffinEnglish
    18•2 hours ago

    “Longstanding policy” = what we did the last time this fucker was elected. There is no precedent for this, and the entire judicial branch shrugged and said “What are you going to do?”.

  • @[email protected]
    6•1 hour ago

    “Trump’s legal team is also strategizing to dismiss or delay other cases, viewing his victory as a mandate to end “weaponization” of the justice system.”

    This is the part that pisses me off so fucking much. It’s EXACTLY what they plan on doing and with a complete disregard for the actual law and rubber stamp judges they’re going to fast track prosecution where it took years to move anything related to Trump…

    I expect to see multiple arrests within the first two years as opposed to 4+ years of feet dragging for Trump…

  • @[email protected]English
    26•2 hours ago

    This is what irritates me the most. I can live with Trump being president despite how much I disagree with the idiot’s concepts. But this places him, as a very orange person, above the law that others have to abide by.

    These are cases that were filed before his “president” status from the result of this election and before he even became a candidate in this election. For fuck sake, this should have stopped the whole ball from rolling.