Aisha Bakshi

The Justice Department was able to get charges against both of them, though they've now been dropped.

And in those cases, both Comey and Letitia James said that these charges should be dropped because the president is engaging in vindictiveness.

were being selectively prosecuted.

And that can be unconstitutional.

They didn't get a ruling on that issue because the cases were dismissed for another reason.

But that was a problem, a potential problem in those cases.

And seeing the president be involved in this type of raid presents that potential problem for the administration again.

It is something that, at least in recent decades, looks pretty new.

That might be the case.

You know, I have talked to lawyers looking at this who ponder whether this sort of investigation into 2020 might not just be about Trump wanting to vindicate himself in some way or rewrite the history of what happened with that election and ultimately with the attack on the US Capitol on January 6th of 2021 as part of an effort by his supporters to overturn those election results.

that it could also be about establishing some framework or groundwork for people to cast out on future elections if Trump or his allies don't win.

In the midterms, we're talking about whether Republicans hold on to the House and the Senate, hold on to Congress.

So it could be the case that these investigations are sort of designed to stoke suspicion about the nation's election processes and whether you can trust the results, especially if those are results that people in power aren't happy with.

In that way, this could affect the midterms and future elections even after that.

And it could also be part of trying to lay groundwork for increased federal intervention.

in state election processes in a way that could also be designed to try to benefit the president, his allies, other people in power.

We'll have to wait and see, but there could be a tie-in to future elections.

Which is what he's suggesting, even legal.

The U.S.

Constitution includes some language actually about how congressional races are supposed to be conducted, congressional elections are supposed to be conducted.