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We should have litigated it then. Nixon should have died in prison. It would have been a good precedent to set


Life in prison for Watergate?


1. It's good to hold people in certain positions of power to higher standards, especially when...

2. They commit an additional concurrent offense of abusing those powers and public trust for crime.


Yes.

If we put 3x caught pot dealers in for life, a corrupt President can certainly rot alongside them.

The more powerful you are, the more significant the penalties for abuse of that power should be, because the damage you can do is correspondingly large.


Don’t think the three strikes law you are referring to (3x nonviolent = life in prison) exists anymore. As it was generally regarded as a cruel mistake. Likewise with hanging politicians for lying…




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