What are the chances that some local prosecutor couldn't credibly indict Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in a Texas or Florida jurisdiction?

How about accessory to murder? Human trafficking? Collusion with Mexican drug cartels? 

Imagine the possibilities. There are countless crimes that Mayorkas has consciously enabled, and I am quite certain we could prove both his consciousness of guilt and the facts of the cases to the satisfaction of local juries. 

I have no doubt at all. 

Whether you can make the charges stick is another matter, of course, but Judge Merchan and his Deputy, who was so recently in Joe Biden's Justice Department, clearly had no such concerns about their prosecution of Donald Trump. There are so many reversible errors in that trial that hardly anybody expects the convictions to stick. 

There are probably thousands of felonies with which he could be charged, and he wouldn't have the excuse that he is senile and incapable of standing trial, unlike the President. 

No doubt, lawyers would object that he has immunity for official acts, and perhaps he does. Perhaps Donald Trump does too, come to think of that, because that issue has yet to be adjudicated. Adjudications in such matters can wait until after the trial, right? Those are the rules, as I understand them now. 

No one is above the law. Dark Brandon says so. 

No one is above the law.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 31, 2024

Perhaps you think that Biden is a better target, but I doubt that he has committed easy-to-prosecute crimes in Red jurisdictions, and he is unlikely to be sentient enough to be sentenced. 

Mayorkas? He is high enough up the food chain to matter could spend decades in jail, and he is just as smug and damaging to American society as Biden is. At least he is close enough for it to count. Not to mention that nobody who wants to be president is afraid enough of the consequences of prosecutions to be scared off.

That's not true of cabinet secretaries. Many of them may take a pass if they could wind up defending themselves for years. 

Is this all a revenge fantasy? Perhaps. But perhaps not. Mayorkas is a scumbag who belongs in jail and we may as well try to get him. Throw in Fauci, Birx, some of the public health officials, and anybody else who has lied about vaccine safety. It's probably too hard to get public health officials who deserve it, but the people who consciously committed fraud? 

Perhaps. 

Don't forget the FOIA frauds. Those are serious felonies, although the venue might make it tough to prosecute. I am no lawyer, but I doubt Texas could prosecute those cases. But I bet there are some FOIA requests that came from Red states where you could argue that individual citizens were harmed through FOIA fraud. 

Throw the fecal matter against the wall and see what sticks. Make them spend money on legal defenses. Sue their asses. 

Is it fair? Probably not, although you could easily make the cases that some of these people richly deserve to be drawn and quartered. 

But these are the rules. 

We could even argue that we are reluctant to do so. Alvin Bragg claims that he prosecuted more in sorrow than anger, and POLITICO agrees. 

This reluctant prosecutor just made Donald Trump a felon https://t.co/sSSguHBaj7

— POLITICO (@politico) June 1, 2024

Republicans should be just as reluctant to prosecute Mayorkas.