The newsies are talking about Trump wants his AG, Jeff Sessions, to prosecute Hillary over her private email server. Dunno if this is fake news or not.
But prosecuting Hillary is a bad idea. She lost the presidency, that's enough grief to serve as adequate punishment for anyone. Enough already.
Worse, it amounts to criminalizing running for public office. American law allows indicting of anyone at anytime for any thing. Glenn Reynolds once said "You can indict a ham sandwich" Public prosecutors work for the executive. When the executives pleases they can jump on any one, and charges can always be trumped up. In Hillary's case, her email server has gotta be in violation of US national security laws. In a future case, a vindictive winner could invent some charge, and by picking the right judge, make it stick. Pretty soon running for office, or even just posting to Facebook could become too dangerous for all but the richest individual's to do.
I think we should just drop the Hillary matter. Besides, prosecuting her will give her barrels of free media.
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