18 U.S.C. § 242: Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
A DOJ with its ducks in a row would be charging this left and right.
A DOJ with its ducks in a row would be charging this left and right.
Unless he pardons literally every ICE agent, a new administration can and certainly should levy all kinds of charges. That's one reason folks have been documenting so much about what's going on even if it can't be stopped right now.
Also, why do people think that Trump is so hurriedly building a new ballroom for the White House along with the bunker underneath? At some point it'll either be people giving in to Trump's administration or out-right civil war and that's why Trump wants a secure bunker and an armed militia (ICE) that is loyal just to Trump.
Even if people vote against Trump in sufficient numbers, he's not likely to accept that and leave.
However, if we look at the Nazi takeover of Germany, it seems that most people will just go along with it which certainly seems to be the case in the USA so far.