re: #103 piratedan

Yup, Menendez’s trial was declared a mistrial, and the Department of Justice declined to retry the case. (While declining to retry a case can mean many things, it often means the case is simply too weak to secure a conviction … and it’s up to the prosecution to prove its case, not the other way round.)

Al Franken requested an ethics investigation, then resigned a short time later. Bob Menendez went through a whole trial. I don’t know what Franken was thinking, but apparently he thought that an ethics investigation would not turn out well. Even if he was found to have violated some sort of ethical consideration, the Senate would still have to vote to expel or censure him.

Blaming Democratic women for Al Franken’s decision doesn’t make sense to me. I presume Mr. Franken spoke with his colleagues before he made his decision.