(Headline USA) Liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus admitted in an article this week that Fulton County’s indictment of former President Donald Trump may be “one too many.”
Trump was indicted Tuesday for the fourth time in as many months, for an alleged conspiracy in Georgia to commit racketeering, forgery, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer and more.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s 13 counts against the former president brought his running total up to 91 charges, including a lawfare attack filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and two separate cases from corrupt Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.
Willis, who campaigned on a platform of prosecuting the Republican president, also indicted 18 other alleged co-conspirators—including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows—for a total of 41 charges.
Marcus noted in her column that, legally speaking, Willis had the right to pursue a case against Trump, even though her charges overlapped with Smith’s federal indictment of Trump for alleged election interference.
However, she pointed out that Willis’s lack of “professionalism” in holding a late-night press conference to announce the charges—and the fact that she is an elected Democrat—raised red flags.
“But there is a concern about piling on here. Why stop at Georgia?” Marcus wrote.
“The federal indictment sets out conduct in six other states in which Trump and his co-conspirators allegedly sought to overturn the election results,” she continued. “Will he be prosecuted in those states too? At some point, it becomes unfair—yes, even to Trump, to go state by state.”
Marcus said she would “rather stick with the judgment and experience of federal prosecutors making certain that voters across the country have their voices heard.”
Those familiar with the U.S. Constitution, such as legal scholars Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz, both moderate liberals, have argued that the very foundation of both the state and federal cases is “unfair” since they rest on actions that were, heretofore, entirely legal—and, indeed, have been previously used by Democrats to contest elections, including the 2000 and 2016 presidential races and the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race.
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Democrats, meanwhile, may be growing more nervous about the possibility of prosecutorial overreach, which has seen Trump’s popular support in the GOP only become stronger with each indictment as the shock value reaps diminishing returns.
Many speculate that due to their dubious legality, the cases are likely to be overturned by a higher court—possibly the Supreme Court—in the unlikely event that they succeed. A Republican victory in the next presidential election would also likely yield a presidential pardon for the two federal indictments.
Trump blasted the Georgia indictment on Tuesday as “the FOURTH ACT of Election Interference on behalf of the Democrats in an attempt to keep the White House under Crooked Joe’s control and JAIL his single greatest opponent of the 2024 election” in a statement posted via his Truth Social network.
“Nineteen people were indicted, and the whole world is laughing at the United States as they see how corrupt and horrible a place it has turned out to be under the leadership of Crooked Joe Biden,” he added.
Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.
