Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion states, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." People continue to chafe at the Justice Department's "unprecedented" decision to search Trump's home. They might want to consider how unprecedented was Trump's decision to take top secret documents out of the White House, store them at his own residence, and then refuse Justice Department entreaties to return the materials to their rightful place. There are 44 previous presidents to serve in America's White House, none of whom committed such a willful violation. Trump's indefensible action - the hoarding of top secret material at his private residence - was unprecedented and required an equally unprecendented response.
It is not easy to do something that is unprecedented. We are, by nature, creatures of habit. Often, the only reason we do unprecedented things is when something unprecedented happens to us.
Marrick Garland did not want to go into Trump's home, if for no other reason than he knew it would create a firestorm. But, firestorms or no, he knew that once Trump committed the bad act, he (Garland) was the only one uniquelly authorized as the US Attorney General, to hold a former president accountable for his blatant flaunting of the la.
What A.G. Garland did was bigger than American law, bigger than its politics. Whether Garland knows it or not, he was driven by the forces of nature, itself. Physics compelled him. It is the law of the universe.
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