9 Ways Mueller’s Investigation Epitomizes A Legal System In Crisis

The Federalist ^ | 5/21/2018 | James V. DeLong

[bitt]

One should rejoice that some trial judges are expressing skepticism about the tactics of Robert Mueller’s special counsel’s office (see here, here, here), and that defendants are increasingly willing to fight back (see here, here). Anyone with a taste for irony will appreciate that a Russian oligarch’s company Mueller indicted, which was expected to remain cowering behind the Kremlin walls, has shown up in court as a champion of American civil liberties.

But it would be unfortunate if the only result of the brouhaha were to make this particular witch hunt disappear. Mueller’s investigation is showy and politically important, but it is not unique. It embodies our administrative state, an epiphenomenon of a serious disease of the legal system.

I count nine related trends that have led to our present state.

[bitt]

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[databoss]

Levin blew out the entire Mueller appointment tonight as being entirely without basis and legality. I have to say he convinced me, hopefully he convinced others too. Interesting factoid is that he worked for AG Meese and Elliot became a judge under Reagan. Like minds?

[South Dakota]

This I have known for a long time.

[volunbeer]

Good read and excellent points across the board, but it needed to further emphasize the difference in treatment among the connected and unconnected. I think much of the current tone in D.C. can be traced back to the 2008 housing market collapse, largely driven by progressive led GSE’s Freddy and Fannie, the big banks, and their congressional benefactors. After the collapse the public (and the Bush administration) was told that some banks were simply too big to fail and the failure of these private entities would somehow crush us all. The crooks swooped in and scooped up competitors and the Fed cranked up the printing press and the party was for a Fed fueled stock surge in an otherwise anemic economy.

The “too big to fail” mantra became part of our national psyche. The open corruption, fraud, lies, and partisan defense in the name of social justice (the maid at Howard Johnsons also deserves a house in California even if she can not afford it) was undeniable. No real investigation of obvious crimes and the executives (many former Clintonistas) walked away with tens of millions of dollars in bonuses even as the taxpayers were stuck with tens of billions in debt. It was the greatest heist in history from top to bottom and it was all covered up.

Those involved were “too big to jail” and their corporate overlords were “too big to fail.” Occupy Wall Street became a mockery for the shenanigans of the disgusting public behavior of the squatters (both figuratively and literally), but their basic premise was correct even if they did not understand it. Fast forward to Mid-Year Exam..... the required investigation and whitewash of the inevitable President... the most connected of them all who was allowed to create a pay to play charitable foundation and continue to do business with it even as she was the Sec of State. Compare this with Eric Trump’s little charity (that was truly a charity) that he was forced to shut down to avoid any appearance of malfeasance.

“What is good for thee does not apply to me”

When you combine the points of the author with the reality that guilt/innocence or charged and uncharged are up to “the elite” is there any wonder people are growing upset with the current state of affairs?

[Steely Tom]

"The fuse blew, so I put a penny in behind it and screwed it back."

"Now it's too big to fail."

[Fitzy_888]

Multiculturalism we know, enter ”multijusticism”.

A term I wish I trademarked as I started using it 6-7 years ago now.

[henkster]

A very good but depressing article. It basically says the Rule of Law is dead. And “Atlas Shrugged” is here and now.

[Eddie01]

[Behind the Blue Wall]

As a member of the bar, I can fully attest to the truths in this article. Draconian criminal and civil laws that are arbitrarily and capriciously enforced amount to a form of tyranny that would probably make a medieval monarch drool were they to have been able to wield similar powers.

[Songcraft]

 

[mrsmith]

Very good.
I’ve been so concerned with the horrifying political aspect of this witch hunt that I’d not considered the legal.

[preacher]

L8r

[Robert DeLong]

Good piece, thanks for sharing. Just in case anyway asks, the answer is, not to my knowledge. IOW, not related to me as far as I know. 8>)