Victor Davis Hanson - Two Sets of Laws for Two Americas

American Greatness ^ | 3 Aug, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

[MtnClimber]

Leftwing Democrats are systematically dismantling the constitutional foundations of the U.S.

Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America.

Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers.

Donald Trump may go to prison for removing contested White House files to his home.

So far Joe Biden seems exempt from just such legal jeopardy.

But as a senator and Vice President with no right, as does a president, to declassify files, Biden removed and, as a private citizen kept for years classified files in unsecure locations.

Biden’s team strangely revealed the unlawful removals after years of silence.

It did so because the Biden administration found itself in the untenable position of prosecuting the former president for “crimes” that the current president committed as well—albeit far earlier and longer.

Impeachable phone calls?

Donald Trump was impeached by a Democratic House for delaying foreign aid until the Ukrainian government guaranteed that Hunter Biden and his family were no longer engaged in corrupt influence peddling in Kyiv.

In addition, the Left charged that Trump was targeting Joe Biden, his possible 2020 rival.

Yet Biden, with impunity, bragged that he had fired a Ukrainian prosecutor looking into his own son’s schemes by promising to cancel outright American foreign aid.

And the Biden administration’s Justice Department is now targeting Trump, currently the frontrunning challenger to Biden in 2024.

Election denialism?

Trump was indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, in part for supposedly conspiratorially “unlawfully discounting legitimate votes.”

Will Smith then also indict Stacey Abrams? For years Abrams falsely claimed that she was the real governor of Georgia. She toured the country in hopes of “discounting” the state vote count.

Or maybe Smith was referring to the conspiracist and former president Jimmy Carter.

He alleged that Trump in 2016 “lost the election...

[AnthonySoprano]

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This is excellent. Thank you!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

3. The set of laws where Trump or we can be tried for what we believe in. Where no laws were broken.

Or laws which have not been used for a hundred years or more, which were not intended to be used for today's reality. Like the 1860s laws to punish the KKK. It's like trying to use rules designed for human chess games for computer games. It's preposterous.

Turley recently said that Jack Smith "has a reputation for stretching criminal statutes beyond the breaking point."

[nopardons]

BTTT

[GOPJ]

In a different time the 'Department of Just Us Thugs and Goons' would have stood with Al Capone and tried to jail Eliot Ness.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the info and a good ping!

[GOPJ]

Two Trump aides and Trump himself are indicted for supposedly stonewalling federal investigators by claiming either amnesia or ignorance.

That tact is exactly what James Comey did 245 times while under oath before Congress.

What do former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and former interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe all have in common?

All three admitted they flagrantly lied either under oath to Congress or to federal investigators.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this:

Or laws which have not been used for a hundred years or more, which were not intended to be used for today’s reality. Like the 1860s laws to punish the KKK. It’s like trying to use rules designed for human chess games for computer games. It’s preposterous.

Turley recently said that Jack Smith “has a reputation for stretching criminal statutes beyond the breaking point.”

[MarMema]

Dream on.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Rules designed for human chess->
One of the rules for a human 5 minute chess game is: You have to push the button to stop your clock/start opponent's clock with the same hand you moved your piece with. Doesn't work in a computer vs computer game because computers don't have hands, and don't usually have physical chess pieces.

[ItMatters2Me]

This is where a strong (or an even somewhat moderately effective) opposition party would come in handy. Why should the dems curb their uncivil dem instincts when there is no incentive to do so?
Every gamble for them is worth taking since the odds of success are in their favor and the likelihood of penalty is minimal?
Republican House leadership is uninspiring and toothless, but at least they make the effort to show up; Republican Senate leadership is altogether missing.
The RNC appears to be not at all familiar with the Republican base. Their motto might as well be: We are not the Democrats.

Two-tiered justice is an understandable byproduct.

[CFW]

We used to have judges who upheld the laws of our nation and prevented prosecutors from instituting two standards of justice based upon political points of view. No longer. Now the judges themselves apply the two standards.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court quietly endorses both election fraud and political prosecutions by basically saying “not my clowns—not my circus”. The justices are scared of the democrats threats to “pack” the Court. The purpose of the repeated attacks on the justices by the left and their faithful media is to remind them that it CAN and WILL be done should they interfere with the prosecution of President Trump.

[newbie 10-21-00]

Isle? So is it Gilligans Aisleland?