A Seesaw of Sore Losers and their Special Counsels
By Adam Mill| February 15th, 2019
Just under a year from now, on February 3, 2020, Iowa will hold its caucuses. A month later, the Democrats and the Republicans both will likely have a prohibitive favorite for the presidential nomination after Super Tuesday cements their insurmountable leads. In other words, very soon, President Trump’s opponents will have the opportunity to remove him using the ordinary and regular procedures of an election.
Now, before we can know the outcome of the 2020 election, it is the perfect time for both sides reflect on the inherent evil of the political special counsel. And now is the perfect time to consider reforms that can be taken to prevent and endless seesaw of sore losers undermining their political opponents with spurious special counsels and investigations.
When one looks back at the Clinton impeachment proceedings, one realizes that Mueller’s team may already have used up too much of the calendar to complete the impeachment/trial process without sailing into the overwhelming political headwinds of an ongoing presidential election cycle. Following the Clinton model, we can anticipate that even if Mueller were to issue his report immediately, the trial would conclude, in the best case scenario, sometime in the July 2019 timeframe. Every month that goes by, Mueller loses more time in which to complete a trial in the Senate before the election.
Suppose the Democrats succeed in dislodging President Trump through the 2020 election. How many days after Election Day 2020 before the enemies of the incoming president plot to have a new special counsel appointed in order to reverse the 2020 election? For Clinton in 2016, it didn’t take long. In 2016, we learned it may have happened almost immediately.
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