Posted on 04/26/2024 4:15:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Due process of law, or at least its absence, is the heart of the unconstitutional lawfare aimed at Donald Trump this week in a New York courtroom, ostensibly for hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. This is a crossing of the Rubicon moment for our Republic.
“Due process” is ancient shorthand for the sum of all the procedures the government must comply with and honor before it may take a person’s life, liberty, or property. The right to due process is over 1,000 years old in English jurisprudence. It is a right of every citizen and a duty of every government.
A year ago, I wrote about DA Bragg charging Trump with a crime, but not identifying the crime. Within the past few days, Andrew McCarthy called the prosecution a “farce” and listed its many failings. Prof. Jonathan Turley wrote that Trump is not being prosecuted for any actual crime. Prof. Jed Shugerman called the prosecution unfounded, both a “legal embarrassment” and a “historic mistake.”
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Make no mistake, this is a civil war battle, only it’s fought with a quill instead of a sword. Its existential ramifications for our nation are no less serious. What’s happening is a blatantly unlawful attempt to disenfranchise over half this nation and, by setting a precedent that sees Republicans exist below the ancient protections of due process, it threatens our nation with disunion at best.
Properly understood, these are acts of seditious conspiracy and treason meant to be felt throughout the United States. As such, Judge Merchan, Alvin Bragg, and all their cohorts need to be arrested and tried in the heartland of our nation. Let them face America. If convicted, they need to be punished to the maximum extent allowed by law.
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“This is a crossing of the Rubicon moment for our Republic”
Yawn. Oh, OK. Like using the intelligence agencies of the United States to frame Trump with a bogus collusion charge wasn’t a big deal; like impeaching him for a lousy phone call to a foreign leader wasn’t a big deal; like stealing an election in front of all of us and then jumping up and down screaming “fwee and fair election! Waaah!” wasn’t a big deal; like impeaching him yet again for a riot they created with federal agents embedded in the crowd wasn’t a big deal; like setting him up with boxes full of documents that the agency refused to take and then demanded back after a few months to try to create an issue wasn’t a big deal...on and on.
“This is the hill we will die on” — Really?
They have already gone millions of miles further down the road of despotism and basically have no opposition. Anyone pipes up to counter them and presto! Out comes new indictments all around on ever more obscure, specious charges. Then they all run in terror. How ‘bout a little push back? Like maybe a Republican State AG indicting the army of Rat attorneys who always show up in their states and clearly interfere in their elections?
Don’t hold your breath.
As near as I can tell, it’s a process crime..
In other words, to account for the money, it should have been put in column “A” on the spreadsheet.
Instead it was put in column “B”????
It’s not just dims doing this to Trump. It’s the Uniparty of dims and repugs.
Arrest is for drcent people, not traitors. They should simply be dispatched.
[singing] You get the line and I'll get the pole...
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