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He does have a point: we don't want to get into the habit of overturning elections through prosecutions.

But if you didn't pursue crimes because the offender was powerful, that is a greater injustice.

And if the offender made his career through dubious persecutions, justice is served in holding him liable to the same laws as those he persecuted.

[Stepan12]

He does have a point: we don't want to get into the habit of overturning elections through prosecutions

Then we should've stopped before Tom Delay was smeared.

If the Dems are going to criminalize politicos contrary to their own, then Democrats can be hit by actual criminal statutes and I'm goin' to laugh about it.

Schadenfreude! It's what's for breakfast!