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How To Destroy the American Legal System
Twitter ^ | 3/3/24 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 03/03/2024 1:19:29 PM PST by CFW

How To Destroy the American Legal System

By either listening to testimonies or reading transcripts of the various 2024 Trump election-related court cases and testimonies, what we are left with is an epidemic of lies.

1) Hunter Biden’s current testimonies are contradicted by his own text messages, bank records, phone records, and testimonies of some of his associates. Anytime he is trapped in inconsistencies, he falls back on his addiction. Translated, that means we are sometimes supposed to believe he is a Yale-trained lawyer, experienced corporate grandee, and skilled negotiator, and thus carefully avoided involving his father in the family’s various schemes. And then again, sometimes when the evidence is damning and overwhelming, he simply cannot remember, or claims he was addled at the time in question due to his medical “addiction”.

2) In the Georgia Trump case, lawyers Terence Bradley, Nathan Wade, and Prosecutor Fani Willis all testified under oath to events that are contradicted by either prior other witness testimonies, or their own previous statements, or electronic phone records, and thus, to square the record, either have claimed amnesia, ignorance, or larger racist forces at work. Two of the three are leading the effort to indict a former president and current leading candidate for the presidency on a racketeering charge never before used in a Georgia election interference case, and to be tried by prosecutors who have either zero experience in felony criminal cases or no experience in racketeering cases or both.

3) Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, ran for office on promises to use her office to go after Donald Trump. She used an obscure consumer fraud law to claim Trump overvalued assets to obtain a loan that was paid back with interest and on time to a bank that audited his financial statement prior to the loan and had zero complaints about its profitable loan after it was paid off. Trump now is fined $355 million for a crime that has no victim, and has lost control of his New York businesses to a court-appointed judge. No one in New York history has ever been tried under this statute for allegedly exaggerating assets to get a loan that was paid back and over which the lending agency had no complaints.

4) Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also boasted in his campaign for office he would go after Donald Trump. He is trying Trump on multiple felonies in a state court surrounding a supposed campaign finance violation over a nondisclosure agreement that the proper federal attorneys earlier felt did not merit prosecution.

5) Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is trying Trump for removing classified files to his estate at Mar-a-Lago. Note that twin special prosecutor Robert Hur found that President Biden also removed classified files to more and less secure residences for far longer (over 30 years) but as a senator and Vice President without Trump’s statutory presidential authority to declassify such documents. Biden admitted in 2017 he possessed such classified files and yet knowingly waited years to notify authorities. He did so only on the expectation that prosecutor Smith would soon indict Trump for the same alleged crime. Smith is also trying Trump on “insurrectionary” conduct despite Trump never having been charged in the prior three years by any federal or state authority for such an offense.

6) E. Jean Carrol (won $83.3 million in a “defamation” civil suit against Trump) won her case despite: 1) having no idea what year the alleged sexual assault took place some 30 years ago; 2) claiming she remembered the assault by the designer dress she wore that did not exist at the time; 3) advancing a narrative of events nearly identical to an episode of Law and Order that aired in 2012; 4) tweeting roughly two decades later that her supposed assailant’s TV show The Apprentice was one of her favorites; 5) her ELLE editor denying Carroll was fired from the magazine due to the Carroll-Trump dispute; 6) creating an app about how to break up couples through various machinations; 7) refiling her case beyond the statute of limitations, but only once a leftwing New York legislator strangely passed a bill allowing claimants of sexual abuse to have a one time, one year window to refile beyond the statute of limitations.

7) Blue or purple states such as Colorado, Illinois, and Maine are currently all attempting to remove Donald Trump from their presidential ballots on allegations of insurrectionary activity despite the fact he has never been convicted of any such charge and there is no precedent for such presidential disqualification.

8) Note the following: All the prosecutors, and litigants are either Democratic partisans or liberals. The trials have and will take place largely in Atlanta, New York, or Washington among leftwing prosecutors, judges, and jury pools. The majority of the charges and suits—the various states’ misuse of 14th Amendment, Bragg’s bootstrapping a state indictment onto a federal charge, James’s contortion of using a consumer fraud law to try Trump for a crime without a victim, Willis’s misuse of a racketeering statute to concoct an election interference charge, Carroll refiling once a leftwing jurist passed a special law that allowed her to do so postfacto, Smith’s effort to indict a president for insurrection and removing classified files—have either never been used before in these ways, or are in the wrong jurisdiction, or could equally apply to Democratic targets such as Joe Biden (found culpable by a special counsel but exempt by cognitive disability, named in various testimonies and texts as recipient of illicit foreign payments, accused of prior sexual assault), Hillary Clinton (fined for campaign finance violations), or Barack Obama (fined for campaign finance violations).

So what is the reason for all this lying, these legal contortions, and egregious prosecutor and judicial misbehavior?

Five simple facts alone:

1) The Left both fears and detests Donald Trump.

2) Donald Trump chose to run for the presidency in 2024.

3) Donald Trump is not a man of the Left.

4) Donald Trump is currently ahead of Joe Biden in both national polls and in the majority of swing state polls.

5) The Left feels barring Trump from the presidency is worth destroying 235 years of American jurisprudence.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: books; corruption; dojfbi; jacksmith; trump
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Victor Davis Hanson succinctly sets out the corruption of the DOJ/FBI, Government Agencies, Judges, and Media all in one succinct post.

I thought it was so well set out that I'd post the entire comment here so Freepers could use it for reference.

1 posted on 03/03/2024 1:19:29 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

YES! BTTT!


2 posted on 03/03/2024 1:22:44 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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He confuses American Jurisprudence with Leftist Jurisprejudice.

The first step on the road back to jurisprudence is to fire each and every US Attorney in the country, minute one of the next Trump Administration. Next is to fire the political hierarchy of the DOJ and FBI and to force the transfer of those left (the careerist deep states) to Alaska or the Antarctic.

The nexts steps should consider working through Congress to impeach a whole bunch of federal judges.


3 posted on 03/03/2024 1:27:08 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: CFW

VDH is one of the very best commentators on the current political and social scene.


4 posted on 03/03/2024 1:30:10 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: CFW

The J6 farce has already proven out the existence of the Deep Police State


5 posted on 03/03/2024 1:31:40 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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“VDH is one of the very best commentators on the current political and social scene.”


He is indeed. All House members and Senators should be required to listen to him and read his articles on a daily basis. In fact, VDH should do a Ted-talk to Congress once a year giving them at least a two-hour lecture on the Constitution and history of our nation.


6 posted on 03/03/2024 1:36:03 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: Gaffer

Regarding the federal judges impeaching & conviction\removal would be very very difficult. It might be easier to dramatically increase the number of federal judgeships therefore diluting the effect of the leftist judges. Another advantage in that the newer judges would be younger hence last longer as the Zero appointed drones (8 years worth!) die off or retire.


7 posted on 03/03/2024 1:43:28 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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Many of them if not most have reading comprehension problems as well as attention deficit disorders!

How else would you explain their decision-making skills?


8 posted on 03/03/2024 1:47:37 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: CFW

bfl


9 posted on 03/03/2024 1:56:59 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Reily

Actually, I’m not against drastically reducing then number of federal judges, but I do think that Congress should take more of an active role in keeping this growing trend of “legislating from the bench” under tight, tight control, and the only way I know of right now is to impeach them.

We have to stop, completely stop, leftists like Leticia James from judge/circuit shopping to judges like that leftist Engoron


10 posted on 03/03/2024 1:59:31 PM PST by Gaffer
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Both James and Engoron are part of the NY State legal/judicial system. They could do what they are doing if all the federal judges were GOP/Trump appointees. A Constitutionaly oriented federal judge could stop Jack Smith!


11 posted on 03/03/2024 2:09:42 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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Many of them if not most have reading comprehension problems


Don’t be silly. They just choose to interpret words differently. SC Hawaii says they read the words of the 2nd Amendment, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”, differently than SCOTUS.

It’s not unlike a ‘mostly peaceful’ demonstration as the town Is burning behind the reporter or an ‘insurrection’ by unarmed people walking between the velvet ropes.


12 posted on 03/03/2024 2:13:52 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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Hawaiian SC’s interpretation of the 2nd Amendment sounds like a reading comprehension problem to me!


13 posted on 03/03/2024 2:20:51 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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Hawaiian SC’s interpretation of the 2nd Amendment sounds like a reading comprehension problem to me!

No, it is not. They understand the words. They understand the Supreme Court ruling in Bruen.

It is important to understand they see the role of a judge is not to evenhandedly administer the rule of law.

To progressives, the role of a judge is to use their power to reach leftist goals, to move society in the direction they wish to move it.

14 posted on 03/03/2024 2:33:08 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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Progressive Political Leaders handling dissent!


15 posted on 03/03/2024 2:38:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave (“Surrender means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.)
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To: marktwain

I didn’t realize there were so many humor impaired people on this site!

I wasn’t being serious!! It was tongue-in-cheek; both comments!


16 posted on 03/03/2024 2:39:12 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: CFW

Nothing ropes and trees can’t solve.

Maybe guillotines?


17 posted on 03/03/2024 2:40:51 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: CFW
Government by Judiciary
- Raoul Berger

A big problem. A worthwhile book.

18 posted on 03/03/2024 2:45:33 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: CFW
Progressive Political Leaders handling dissent!

How To Destroy the American Legal System!


19 posted on 03/03/2024 2:52:39 PM PST by Grampa Dave (“Surrender means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.)
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To: Reily

Hawaiian SC’s interpretation of the 2nd Amendment sounds like a reading comprehension problem to me!


And to me as well, but don’t forget that they are just expressing ‘their truths’ which as Fearless Brandon has told us are more important than facts.

But the Hawaiian SC concept allows for all kinds of interesting results. It opens up the reintroduction of slavery, since it is now possible to read the words of the 13th Amendment as requiring slavery.

Supposedly, the British Army played a popular tune of the time when it surrendered at Yorktown, “The World Turned Upside Down”. We are living in such times.


20 posted on 03/03/2024 2:55:34 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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