Georgia grand jury investigating Trump returns indictments

[LBJer]

Bill Barr thinks Trump’s 2024 candidacy shouldn’t give him any sort of immunity or perks, and he believes Trump will be convicted … in the federal cases

  he pointedly isn’t a fan of the Georgia case:

[Barr] also criticized the most recent indictment against the former president out of Georgia – where Trump faces 13 felony counts related to his alleged efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results – as “too sweeping, much too broad” and “excessive.”

Barr argued that it is unlikely to be tried before the 2024 presidential election and that it makes it “look like people are piling on and being excessive to Trump and feeds the narrative that he’s being victimized.”

“I’m not happy with the Georgia case,” Barr said. “I don’t think it’s going to be trialable before the election. It’s just too sprawling.”

https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/bill-barr-says-federal-cases-against-trump-will-be-tried-before-election-and-chances-are-he-will-be-convicted/

In calling the Georgia case "excessive," Bill Barr conveniently doesn't mention that Trump's reaction to losing the 2020 election--trying to overthrow the government--was quite "excessive" itself!  You can't do something like that and then whine that other people's responses are too extreme--well, you obviously can but if you do you're guilty of chutzpah in the first degree. 

[LBJer]

Why would an innocent man need a pardon in the first place? Tis a mystery....

Besides the already alluded to possibility of an innocent person being convicted, there's also the situation where someone is legally guilty but morally innocent (for example, someone convicted of murder whose "murder" was putting a loved one out of their misery at the loved one's request because they were too weak to do it themself).  Someone in this situation could well ask for a pardon on the grounds that they simply don't deserve to be in prison.

Of course, neither of these apply to Trump.