Posted on 03/14/2019 9:24:08 AM PDT by Rusty0604
This is the big downside to so-called “independent” judiciaries.
Prosecutorial and judicial immunity along with the fact that, for the most part, judicial officials are not elected has resulted in this truly egregious situation at DOJ and many courts.
Elected judges and LEOs (sheriffs) obviously have much more accountability. They can be thrown out and as long as the terms aren’t too long, this is generally an adequate check on bad decisions, corruption and malfeasance.
Appointed judges, prosecutors and investigators are running amok today because they lack accountability under the aegis of an “independent judiciary”. I’m not advocating that these officials be elected for the most part (at the federal level this would be a problem). But we need stricter enforcement of policies and sanctioning prosecutors (Andrew Weismann) and judges that abuse their position. Impeachment is not an effective check on judges. We need to make it easier for law boards to reprimand and pull law licenses of judges and prosecutors. Civil lawsuits by citizens harmed by improper decisions of judges and civil rights violations by prosecutors and investigators need to be accepted.
If we don’t get some control over this process, we will continue to descend into the police state. Without some control over theses independent actors, they will continue to go rogue. These people might say that they are operating under the law. Well that might be true since there are so many laws you can find almost anybody guilty if you look hard enough. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is where we are at today.
Hopefully citizens will wake up and reject the status quo. I would like to see more jury nullifications based on these abuses. At any legal proceeding, agencies like DOJ and FBI should be considered to have lied, intimated witnesses, withheld exculpatory evidence, used hearsay, made up evidence until proven otherwise.
Great post.
“Hopefully citizens will wake up and reject the status quo”
Unfortunately, most people think the courts have the final say on any issue. That the courts are the final arbiter on the law and Constitution. I would guess more than 80% of people here believe that...And too many in the Trump administration believe it, too.
“Manafort is a political prisoner. Pure and simple.”
As blatant as it gets. What’s different in this case is that it’s not the presumptive leader of the country that is imprisoning people but the opposition.
Goes to show how powerful the deep state is.
Thanks for the post.
Political terrorism.
Good post!
Too bad NYC can be cut from the Mainland and set adrift in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean never to be seen by eyes on the American shore again. Oh well; a fella can dream...
Can President Trump just cut the sentence to time served?
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Good idea! I think that’s called “commuting the sentence”.
Hopefully, that would frustrate the evil Democrats...
I agree, and due to NY, Manafort should leave the country for Ecuador, which has no extradition treaty with the US, iirc the Julian Assange situation.
I continue to think this State/Fed double charging of people is actually double jeopardy approved by the system to get around the constitution.
So, the presidential pardon able to be overridden by the state does NOT seem to be the intent of the founders.
“The president has a pardon, but it’s really pointless, since any state can override it a few minutes after it gets issued.” Can you imagine that conversation between two Founders?
Leftists are sick twisted children in adult bodies.
My niece loves NYC: she wants to be an actress.
Good luck to her.
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Manafort, like Michael Flynn, was working for Russia, Manafort via Putin's puppet candidate in the Ukraine. I'm sure Trump had his reasons at the time for hiring them.
In any case, he's a lot wiser now than he was then on Russia, thanks primarily to people like VP Pence, Sen Cruz, and other knowledgeable and intelligent folks.
Plus, whatever Manafort or Flynn did to help the Russian dictator, it had nothing to do with the Trump campaign.
I personally think vindictive Hillary is pulling a lot of strings and using threats to orchestrate a lot of the nonsense. ...at the very least giving up information she has on people to take others down to support whatever goes against Trump and those who support him..
What’s different in this case is that it’s not the presumptive leader of the country that is imprisoning people but the opposition.
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This is not so different than when Hitler rose to power as the head of the Nazi Party. He certainly was not the presumptive leader of Germany. That soon changed by 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power
Commute his sentence allowing double jeopardy to squash t5he NY state prosecution and ORDER the Attorney General to conduct a full investigation in to the conduct of the Prosecution team in New York that brought this indictment for political gain.
It is double jeopardy under NYS Law. McCarthy explains why. He also states that a pardon removes double jeopardy as there is no longer a vonviction, but a commutation to time served maintains DJ under the state’s statutes that there can be no further prosecutionnof a perdon when the crime alleged stems directly from the crime the person was convicted of. Double heapordy would be involved had Manafort veen gound not guilty.
Andy McCarthy was a loyal apologist for the Swamp. Each time I read an article like this I think of his defense of Comey’s ‘integrity.’
You’re making way too much sense.
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