Following this, both political parties reacted as one might have expected: Republicans denounced the extraordinary raid on a former president's house, while Democrats criticized the former president for not turning over the records.
And now it has been made public that lawyers have discovered top-secret classified documents in Joe Biden's home and offices from when he was vice president. The political uproar has reached extremely high decibel levels, as predicted. It matters both.
Following this, both political parties reacted as one might have expected: Republicans denounced the extraordinary raid on a former president's house, while Democrats criticized the former president for not turning over the records.
And now it has been made public that lawyers have discovered top-secret classified documents in Joe Biden's home and offices from when he was vice president. The political uproar has reached extremely high decibel levels, as predicted. It matters both.
The Department of Justice having to investigate two presidents is quite unprecedented. It appears that in recent years, adherence to laws or ethical norms has become a disappearing commodity in US politics, as it has been in so many other countries.
Shortly after the conclusion of midterm elections last November, the country found out that George Santos, newly elected Republican Representative to the US Congress from New York, had lied about just every important aspect of his background. His education, work experience, his faith, and what his family has endured over generations were all fabricated. How he managed to lend $700,000 to his campaign is under investigation for possible campaign finance violation.
The most astonishing aspect of the tale isn't the fact that the recently elected legislator faked every detail of his biography. The fact that Santos' Republican Party, which is led by the recently elected Speaker, does not believe Mr. Santos should be required to quit, is extremely astounding. At all costs, the four-seat Republican majority in the House must be preserved.
The previous several years in American politics have demonstrated that respect to laws and social standards is not entirely mandatory, and that the extremely affluent and powerful may actually be above the law. There are frequently no practical ways to enforce compliance.
The biggest fine permitted by New York State law, $1.6 million, was levied against Donald Trump's real estate company this week for tax fraud. Although not personally involved, Donald Trump's chief financial manager was sentenced to five months in prison. Trump has categorically dismissed the entire incident by referring to it as "politically driven."
Even if these actions are obviously unethical, other instances of lawbreaking and even violating the US Constitution have gone unpunished.
The Senate leader simply disregarded Obama's nomination of a nominee to fill the vacancy, in violation of the Constitution, leaving the Supreme Court with one vacancy for nearly a year. McConnell, the leader of the Senate, asserted his constitutional right to deny the presidential candidate a hearing.
According to Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution, the president must name Supreme Court justices "with advice and approval of the Senate." Legal experts will debate whether such "advice and consent" might entail the freedom to merely decline to take a validly nominated justice into consideration.
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