Posted on 05/13/2024 5:16:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What will be the endgame of all these attacks on the American legal system and the warping of it for blatant political purposes?
None of the five civil and criminal cases currently lodged against former President Donald Trump have ever had merit. They were all predicated on using the law to injure his re-election candidacy—given a widespread derangement syndrome among the left and a fear they cannot entrust a Trump/Biden election to the people.
These criminal and civil trials are merely the continuation of extra-legal efforts of the last eight years to destroy a presidential candidate in lieu of opposing him in transparent elections.
As such, the current lawfare joins the Mueller investigation of the Russian-collusion hoax. It is a continuation of the laptop disinformation caper and the “51 intelligence authorities” who lied about its Russian origins. It logically follows from the two impeachments, the Senate trial of Trump as a private citizen, and states’ efforts to remove him from their ballots.
The E. Jean Carroll case, the Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fani Willis local and state trials, and the Smith federal indictment share various embarrassments.
Suspension of statutes of limitations: Carroll and Bragg could only go to court through the legal gymnastics of enlisting sympathetic judges and legislators to change or amend the law to suspend the statute of limitations as a veritable bill of attainder to go after Trump.
Violations of the Bill of Rights: In the Bragg case, Judge Merchan’s selective and asymmetrical gag order likely violates the First Amendment (prohibiting “abridging the freedom of speech”). Bragg violated the Sixth Amendment by denying Trump the right “to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation”. Judge Engoron, in the juryless James case, violated the Eighth Amendment (“nor excessive fines imposed”)
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It is as if the left is afraid of losing momentum in their little communist revolution. I think they will do anything to stop Trump.
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As usual, Hanson is on point on all counts.
The left will be able to finish the destruction of this country if they win in 2024.
The left will face earnest prosecution, if Trump wins in 2024.
The Left is going to cheat with wild abandon in 2024.
Bragg violated the Sixth Amendment by denying Trump the right “to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation”
No wonder Biden has close ties to Xi they both have the same idea how law should be carried out.
GREAT article from VDH. Thanks for posting. Still waiting for “justice” for an innocent man against the leviathan of BIG GOVENMENT CRIMINALS.
Reminds me of Josef K in Kafka’s “The Trial”
Fixed it for Dr. Hansen.
BTTT
Four, the U.S. has lost a great deal of credibility abroad due to the erosion of what was once seen as the greatest system of jurisprudence in the world. No longer. Enemies like China and Russia now boast that America’s new political prosecutions are similar to their own systems, or even more egregious, and will welcome us into their own customs of bastardized justice.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Media loves to provide rain on the Trump parade.
Bragg plays with a marked deck of cards.
Independent of Trump, those who hope to save America must use the law to prosecute Willis, Bragg, James, Smith, Merchan, Engoron, and those in the Democrat Party who abetted them.
:NeverTrumpin':
As their hysteria grows and Trump's fortunes rise, I fear for him.
These cases have shown beyond any doubt that everything I was taught in Law School was pure unadulterated BS. Obviously corrupt federal agencies, prosecutors and judges openly violating the Constitution. Doing so for obviously political reasons. Judges and prosecutors with clear conflicts of interest and in the case of judges issuing rulings that were comically partisan. Federal agencies and prosecutors engaging in obviously selective prosecution refusing to prosecute numerous cases of leftists having done the exact same things.
The SCOTUS has done great harm to the US Legal system by not slapping all of this down and slapping it down hard right from the very start. Democrats and the Corporate Media can try to deny it all they like, but this has made the US look really bad all around the world. No longer can anybody in the state department or anywhere else in America point an accusatory finger at the obvious corruption in various other countries. What’s been done here is the exact same thing everybody saw for years and years from the Communist Block or from various 3rd world shitholes.
I'd completely forgotten about that. Kudos to VDH.
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If the current regime stays in power, we are done. If Trump wins, there is a chance America can be restored to greatness.
The Supreme Court should issue a writ of certiorari to evaluate all of these cases collectively.
Yes, this would be unprecedented, but such election interference is unprecedented.
Collectively these cases raise a significant federal question that is in the public’s interest, in fact, not merely significant but essential to the survival of the Republic.
Nothing is more in the public interest than a thorough and truth-seeking evaluation of this and a clear ruling by the Court.
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