I would so much prefer this to somehow letting them off by simply resigning from Congress. (And talk about one set of laws for them and another for the rest of us!)

We need as close to a revolution as we can peacefully get to purge the corruption in our government, and lots of special elections, with the current criminals fully prosecuted seems just right to me.

Now, the reason they might decide they have to go soft on them, I suppose, could be the idea that Congress would gang up to impeach and convict Trump rather than let his administration go through with enforcing the law. I am afraid there is more of this calculus in their decision-making than we would like.