Indicting Trump Would Be Targeted Injustice

The New York Sun ^ | March 15, 2023 | Alan Dershowitz

[Mr. Mojo]

When I was coming of age in the 1950s Southern prosecutors would target civil rights workers and search for any possible violation of the law, no matter how technical. If they discovered or invented a violation, they would indict, prosecute, convict and sentence the target.

Often the violation would be of an obscure statute that had never before been deployed. To paraphrase the late Justice Robert Jackson, these anachronistic statutes and precedents lie around “like loaded weapons“ ready to be selectively enforced against political enemies.

That, precisely, is what we are now seeing with the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, targeting the former president and current candidate, Donald Trump. Does anyone actually believe that if someone else were accused of paying hush money to avoid a sex scandal in the manner that Mr. Trump is suspected of doing, he would be prosecuted?

After spending months searching the criminal code for a law that Mr. Trump might be accused of violating, Mr. Bragg has apparently landed on a highly questionable campaign contribution provision that has never before been used in a comparable situation.

As Jackson also presciently observed: “With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.”

He added: “In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.”

[Mr. Mojo]

As [the late Justice Robert] Jackson also presciently observed: “With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.”

“One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” - Ayn Rand

[Wilderness Conservative]

Where’s Ron?

[ronnie raygun]

Both parties want him out of the race, we all know it we all see it. They cant control him they need someone they can control

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think this whole New Yawker Soros fiasco is hilarious. Alvin the Moronic Chumpmonk with nuts in his chubby cheeks is the laughing stock of the whole world right now. Way to go Alvin. ROTFL.

[Gay State Conservative]

So now Alan Dershowitz *and* Jonathan Turley,the two most respected Constitutional scholars in the country (and both democrats) are on record questioning the legitimacy of this move. But,OTOH,the gals at The View at waving their pom poms right now.

[Dave911]

Time for a Republican prosecutor to go after Clinton for the Paula Jones payoff.

[Gay State Conservative]

No,not the *whole* world...just the part populated by decent,rational people.

[bankwalker]

I’ll believe it when I see it happen ... and not a minute sooner ...

[SecondAmendment]

>Where’s Ron?

Waiting for the indictment to actually happen before commenting on it.

I must be getting old since remember when histrionics was exclusive to the left.

[SamAdams76]

It is usually wiser to wait on events as opposed to emotionally reacting in anticipation of them. The latter often makes you look dumb when said event never happens in the first place.

I'm leaning towards this much ballyhooed "arrest" of Trump not happening at all.

[Gay State Conservative]

The only Republican prosecutors you can find today are in suburban and rural counties. Imagine what would happen if Hunter were to be indicted for illegal financial transactions with the Red Chinese by a grand jury in Crested Butte County,Wyoming. That’s right...crickets. Or maybe derisive laughter from Chuck Todd and the editorial writers at the Amazon Compost.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Menehune56]

“Show me the man, I’ll find his crime.” Stalin’s head of secret police NKVD

[bert]

If Trump is harmed, progressives will learn what guns are for.

The war will be on and the little old feminist lady down the street will be subject to extermination

[bankwalker]

correct ... I wonder who ballyhooed it?

[Magnatron]

Waiting for the indictment to actually happen before commenting on it.

Waiting for the indictment is too late. There is an ongoing biased, politically charged, corrupt, thumb-on-the-scales process that DeSantis should speak out about -- as others who aren't Trump supporters have. Not doing so will destroy DeSantis' chances at the polls. Trump supporters will sit on their hands if he's the choice in the general, and many of DeSantis' supporters -- myself included -- will be hesitant to support him if he can't at least speak out for fairness and blind justice.

What Trump did -- and I believe he did it -- was wrong. But for anyone who has followed Trump throughout his career, this behavior can't be a surprise to anyone. Paying this slut to go away isn't a crime in any real sense. People have paid people to go away for time immemorial.

DeSantis needs to step up and be a bigger man than Trump. He needs to denounce this process and call it out for what it is -- thorough corruption on the part of the left and the Democrat party. To not do so harms him, and tells us that he will not be the one to stand up to the Deep State and take decisive action to dismantle it...

[FreeReign]

Not histrionics.

The trial balloon went up Friday. All people who weren’t silent stopped this absurdity. A few remained quiet.

[McGruff]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

They are MANY years beyond the Statute of Limitations which, in this instance, is TWO YEARS. More importantly, THERE WAS NO CRIME!!!

Mar 20, 2023, 7:34 AM

[central_va]

I wish Trump would shut up and quit defending himself. He always sounds crazy. /sarc

[IAGeezer912]

Let’s see, there is
- Trump and Stormy
- BiteMe showering with his daughter
- Hunter having sex with his niece

Yeah, Trump is the villain.