@futurebird heh, I think of both the Roman Republic and the Athenian ”democracy” that had a problem with their politicians getting hauled to court right after their office ended by their political opponents. Sometimes for good reasons and sometimes not.
I wonder if that was one of the reasons the Romans started to send the “going out of office” politicians to work in the provinces for a handful of years. To cool everything down a bit.
(they where all corrupt by todays definitions)