Friends, increasingly, from the perspective of progressives, the very purpose of our system of justice is to treat conservatives differently from the Children of Light. We, conservatives, are a cancer on the body politic, and the job of prosecutors, apparently, is to attack and destroy that cancer, by any means necessary.
Witness the Trump "hush money" trial in New York City, which even many liberals regard as a legal travesty. Getting a New York prosecutor to target Public Enemy Number One, DJT, however, isn't exactly a stretch. Careers can be made by assailing unpopular figures like Trump. What's more, finding an NYC jury that isn't primed and ready to convict Trump will be enormously difficult, as the article below makes clear. Complicating Trump's legal situation is the fact that America's best and brightest lawyers don't want to represent him. From their perspective, there is, as it turns out, such a thing as bad publicity, and the "reputational damage" they would suffer from being associated with Beelzebub would be devastating. Plus, he's Trump, so he's obviously guilty from the start, so there's that. All in all, I'm not optimistic that the hush money trial will be anything but a farce, and I suspect the best that Trump can hope for is a mistrial, or a conviction that quickly becomes mired in the appeals process. Will any of this alter the landscape of the 2024 presidential election? That seems doubtful.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68832369
Continuing the theme of bias in prosecution, the Supreme Court is considering whether a law designed to prevent the destruction of corporate documents can be used to throw January 6th protestors in the slammer. You'll love the conclusion of this piece. The federal prosecutor is asked, essentially, whether anyone else has ever been charged with "obstruction of an official proceeding" based on participation in a public protest. The prosecutor says, apparently in all seriousness, that to her knowledge no such thing had ever occurred before January 6th, 2021. Oh really??? Gimme a break. Leftists disrupt the operations of government constantly, and much more often than conservatives do (I'm looking at you, Jamaal Bowman) -- and of course NEVER are they subject to the same scorched earth tactics of adversarial prosecution as a consequence. Let's hope that SCOTUS will do the right thing and slap these prosecutors down.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-casts-doubt-obstruction-161548743.html
Finally, poor Mike Johnson is between a rock and a hard place. The GOP establishment wants him and his caucus to maintain a low profile, so as not to impede Trump's path to victory in November, and they also want him to shower America's allies, like Israel and Ukraine, with cash. Many grassroots conservatives and more ideological Republican Congressmen, though, want to go after Biden, keep pushing for border security reforms, and stop pouring money down the Russia-Ukraine drain. What's a Speaker to do? Frankly, whatever he does, a lot of Republicans will be mad. The GOP just doesn't have a functional majority in the House, and Johnson would be lucky to survive in the job of Speaker all the way to January, as a consequence.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So far it appears that lawfare has had no unfavorable effect on DJT's standing with the voters and that it is possible it has won him sympathy. This massively publicized trial may well work to his advantage. It is disturbing for a supporter of Trump to witness the personal excoriation of him vindictively and counterintuitively presented as " due process" by the neoSoviet prosecution. It but strengthens our resolve to back him relentlessly, I think. It may well muster such a degree of disgust among those progressives who are, nonetheless of good will, that this totalitarian onslaught has gone too far and that voting for Biden is a vote for this execrable misuse of our legality. Accordingly, they may vote for someone other than Biden, including perhaps a surprising number consequently voting for DJT. Though it is celebrated by many and uneasily tolerated by some, surely this abomination raises in many minds who would not heretofore have considered it, the plausibility that the antiamerican left is for dead certain actually devoted to utterly destroying anyone who gets in their way and in doing so invoke the terror all totalitarians use to reduce their subjects to prostration.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: What a day of reckoning this election day will be! Many creditable commentators assert that the border is the most important issue. Objectively it is because the violators in Federal executive power enable this mass incursion of foreigners not authorized by our democratically promulgated Immigration Law (the establishment of which no doubt included full discussion of the views of those who want an open border; they did not get all they want and they consider that injustice). Symbolic it is because the antiamerican left which runs this administration thereby confirms that it is going to do WHATEVER and WHENEVER it wants and can do and if you say or do you don't like it, they are taking names, making lists and checking them twice. It sees this as a key in the "fundamental transformation" of the hated US into some thing of which they approve. They hope it will empower a voting bloc as far (and not beyond) beholden to them as to serve as compliant cadre (who would of course be enslaved like everyone else once totalitarian "transformation" prevails.) If this is that significant an electoral issue one cannot imagine it being endorsed by more Americans than those repelled by its effect and intention. So perhaps a fed up electorate will empower a workable majority for us in the House. Meantime, the thought of Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker in a House which may decide this Presidential election MUST give restive GOP reps serious pause.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: How terrible it is that an executive office holder elected only by a community which is atypical of America is able to arrogate to himself the power to task a once and perhaps future President to the extreme at a critical time in the politics of the country. DA Bragg and NY State AG James are NY's shame before our country. Since the law appears at least now to countenance this egregious misuse it remains for an America forced to see its national political life controlled to this insufferable degree by those whose purpose is to be the catalyst for the forced "fundamental transformation" (read destruction) of America, to fully realize, in thought and action, the appalling fact that we have among us those who would willing subjugate us, arbitrarily,utterly and completely. We can still stop them by remaining true on election day and empowering an administration which would from day one, fly in their faces in the manner so courageously and faithfully advanced by Gov. DeSantis in redeemed Florida.
ReplyDeleteWell, Jack, I agree AND disagree. I agree that there's little evidence that the Trump prosecutions have hurt Trump politically -- yet. I would also argue that there's little evidence that those prosecutions have hurt the Dems either, and none at all, as far as I know, that they've hurt Biden. Biden has insulated himself from the process, of course. He can claim that the wheels of justice are turning and have nothing to do with him. In a sense, that's true: it's "coincidence" that leftist prosecutors across the nation are nailing Trump at precisely the same time -- an election year -- and not necessarily an organized plot. The lefties don't NEED organization, in fact, because they all know the playbook by heart anyway. What we don't know is what effect a CONVICTION will have on Trump. My guess is...not much.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see whether immigration is the top issue come November. I doubt it. Trump and Biden themselves will be the top issue. The economy will be second. Maybe immigration third. The Dems know that they can get away with gradually shifting the demographic profile of the country with legal and illegal migration, and they're pretty good at toggling those flows up and down to suit their political requirements. History suggests, alas, that they will get away with this outrage.
It is horrifying indeed how local and state prosecutors and judges can bring a former president to heel...and, who knows, maybe someday a sitting president too. Democracy can't long survive this kind of abuse of the "justice" system. Something has to give.