The trial itself, was so abnormal from the jurisprudence that this nation has become known for. They refuse to allow witnesses for the offense, the judge showed clear bias to the defendant. His daughter was making money off of the case, and her clients were given special access to the court room that was closed to the public.
I mean I can go on & on.
I am not a lawyer, so this technically may not be considered to be a Constitutional crisis, but that is exactly what it is.
He is still under a gag order.
The bringing in of every thing that should never have been allowed in a criminal trial, where the crime was never really defined.
This was an absolutely corrupt prosecution, and it was being help in a state where a fair trial could never be possible. This is on par with Soviet Show trials of the communists. There is not one iota of difference at all.
The sum of what I have said is totally against what is spelled out in the Constitution, and everybody had better start to recognize this, and treat this as the Constitutional crisis and speaking in those terms. Because the more people that say it is the more recognition it will garner and the more disgusted people will become.
You both need to learn how to fight back, instead of pretending that whatever the legal consensus may be, to make it what the people see as a consensus.
Do not take this to be a complete & comprehensive indictment of this farce conviction. There is plenty more, but I have already said too much for most people to read.
I agree that the whole proceeding was a violation of Citizen Trump’s rights.
I also agree that the Constitution is in crisis, and has been since the USSC accepted the erection of the State of West Virgina upon the territory of Virginia without the consent of the Virginia General Assembly (Virgina v. West Virginia, 1871).
But Citizen Trump is very likely to be vindicated and criminals Bragg and Merchan will likely face consequences.
I am resisting the ideas that because Citizen Trump is “running for President” as the candidate of a “major party” (neither of which concepts exist in the Constitution) that the crimes of Bragg and Merchan, or the state of low-level rebellion that exists in States like New York and California, WORSEN the crisis we are already in.
In order for a government to come to power that will act to destroy “combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law” either an election result beyond imagining (Trump in the White House with 67 Patriot Senators and 293 Patriot Members of Congress) will need to occur OR the Constitution will be discarded by a new government taking a form which “seems most likely to effect [our] Safety and Happiness”.
I’m not holding my breath for either of those things to happen.