Nine Political Predictions for the Rest of 2023

Spring is coming, and so is some political activity

By William S. Bike

As the weather gets warmer in the spring, political activity will heat up, too. Here are nine political predictions for the rest of 2023.

Trump to be indicted

Although Attorney General Merrick Garland’s pace has been particularly slow, former President Donald Trump will be indicted this year. This is a case that is so big that Garland has wanted to get it right by dotting every I and crossing every T. But Garland’s appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith is an indicator that the Justice Department is finally ready to make a move; Smith has always been a bulldog, and Garland didn’t appoint him to do nothing. Plus, every attorney in the Justice Department is putting pressure on Garland to indict and to put them on the case. This is the kind of situation that comes along about once every 50 years — Teapot Dome in the 1920s, Watergate in the 1970s, and now the Trump indictment. Every attorney in the Justice Department wants to be on the case, because they know it will make their careers. Even 50 years later, some of the Watergate lawyers still are household names. Every lawyer in the Justice Department wants to be this century’s Leon Jaworski or Jill Wine-Banks. And that’s just at the federal level. Trump will likely face state charges in Georgia and New York.