Harvard constitutional legislation professor Laurence Tribe known as the indictment towards Donald Trump “brilliant,” however stated there’s one issue that might render the entire thing moot: Timing.
“I do think that [Attorney General] Merrick Garland did not proceed as fast as he might have,” Tribe stated on MSNBC on Tuesday night.
Because of this, the case towards Trump over his actions main as much as the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol may drag on into the following presidency.
“If the next presidency is held either by Donald Trump or by one of his acolytes or by virtually any Republican, there is the horrible prospect that this will all be wiped away,” he stated. “And that it will be relegated to a kind of a historic footnote.”
Tribe stated it’s a reminder of how “vulnerable and fragile” the authorized system is.
“We have a system that might go too slowly, that might be too opaque,” he stated. “And a system that is not at all guaranteed to triumph over politics.”
See his full dialogue with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell beneath:
