A Couple Addenda to Trump Insurrection Pardons Entry

"I broke the law that day, period. Black and white," Pamela Hemphill told NPR's All Things Considered of the role she regrets playing at the Capitol that day. "I'm not a victim, I'm a volunteer."

Pamela Hemphill's response to Trump's blanket pardon of the 1/6 insurrection defendants was referenced. It warrants emphasis as an example of what should happen. Single role models can seem of limited idiosyncratic effect. We should not be too cynical about them.

People do change. They do learn. Hemphill again:

"It's like, how was I so naïve? Well, I see now how I was, because it's a cult and you get gaslighted, and they lie to you and say there's this deep state, and the DOJ is against Trump and all this garbage."

When a partisan like Liz Cheney dissents, it is one thing. When someone is directly involved, it is more powerful. Hemphill:

"It's like, how was I so naïve? Well, I see now how I was, because it's a cult and you get gaslighted, and they lie to you and say there's this deep state, and the DOJ is against Trump and all this garbage."

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Meanwhile, when Melissa Murray co-edited a book setting forth the Trump indictments, it was noted that various other nations have prosecuted leaders for wrongdoing. And, this was not a bad thing by rule. Everyone should be bound by law, including our leaders. To wit:

South Korea’s Impeached Leader Is Indicted on Insurrection Charges

This might appall certain members of the Supreme Court. Nonetheless, others might appreciate that "President Yoon Suk Yeol will stand trial along with his former defense minister and others who participated in his short-lived imposition of martial law." The rule of law is a good thing.

It might be a shock when readers see that he is in jail. So fast?! Surely not even four years is long enough.

A majority of South Koreans approved of his impeachment and consider him guilty of insurrection, according to public opinion polls. But Mr. Yoon’s die-hard supporters have called his impeachment “fraud.” Some of them shocked the country when they vandalized a courthouse in Seoul after one of its judges approved a warrant to arrest him on Jan. 19. Nearly 60 people were arrested in connection with that unrest.

Sounds somewhat familiar.