{"id":5238,"date":"2018-12-05T17:47:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T22:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:44:47","slug":"trump-has-repeatedly-explicitly-broken-the-law-during-his-presidency-why-is-nobody-in-power-doing-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/05\/trump-has-repeatedly-explicitly-broken-the-law-during-his-presidency-why-is-nobody-in-power-doing-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has repeatedly, explicitly broken the law during his presidency. Why is nobody in power doing something??"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5234\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/120518-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5234\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/120518-4-1-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Trump has repeatedly, explicitly broken the law during his presidency. Why is nobody in power doing something??\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump has repeatedly, explicitly broken the law during his presidency. Why is nobody in power doing something??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The legal system moves slowly, much more slowly than the news cycle. There are several things to watch: the results of the Mueller investigation; what the new Democratic majority in the House decides to do starting in January; and the results of several lawsuits by state attorneys general against administration actions. Mueller has so far charged a number of people with crimes (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-mueller\">bit.ly\/bc-mueller<\/a>), and the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland have apparently started to issue subpoenas in the early stages of a lawsuit about payments to the President&#8217;s businesses. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-subpoenas\">bit.ly\/bc-subpoenas<\/a>. This is the process of proving wrongdoing under our law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal system moves slowly, much more slowly than the news cycle. There are several things to watch: the results of the Mueller investigation; what the new Democratic majority in the House decides to do starting in January; and the results of several lawsuits by state attorneys general against administration actions. Mueller has so far &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/05\/trump-has-repeatedly-explicitly-broken-the-law-during-his-presidency-why-is-nobody-in-power-doing-something\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump has repeatedly, explicitly broken the law during his presidency. Why is nobody in power doing something??&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5258,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions\/5258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}