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The Hill -  House Democrats want 2029 to be the year of reckoning for Trump administration officials.  Democrats have long accused top members of President Trump’s team of violating laws across a wide range of activities, from deadly immigration raids and strikes on alleged drug boats, to financial self-dealing and targeting Trump’s political enemies for prosecutions.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has not pursued those cases, the Democrats contend, only because the president’s loyalists control the agency. In many cases, they say, the DOJ itself is guilty of the wrongdoing.  But Trump won’t be in power forever. And while the Supreme Court has granted immunity to presidents, shielding Trump from prosecutions related to his time in office, the dispensation does not extend to other administration officials. With that in mind, Democrats are already clamoring for the next administration, Democratic or Republican, to launch investigations into Trump officials — and prosecute them in cases of demonstrated criminal wrongdoing. 

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), who’s in line to chair the House Natural Resources Committee if the House flips in November, cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the criminality of the Trump officials.

“Before we start calling something a crime or making use of these legal terms that actually have very important meanings, we need to investigate,” he said. “We need to do what Congress has declined to do for the last 16 months.”