Posted on 12/02/2024 5:55:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
The estimated half a billion tax dollars spent by the DOJ over the past four years to pursue Donald Trump and his supporters demands accountability. And consequences.
After enduring nearly a decade of torment at the hands of hyperpartisan, unaccountable prosecutors and judges, President-elect Donald Trump appears poised to make good on his promise to hold government officials responsible for destroying public trust in the country’s once-revered legal and judicial system. Trump repeatedly pledged on the campaign trail that he would seek payback for the costly pursuits of his family, his businesses, his closest aides, and his supporters if elected president.
But ever since Trump’s decisive victory, many anti-Trump pundits who either endorsed or turned a blind eye to the vengeful weaponization of Joe Biden’s Department of Justice now are predictably demanding a “lawfare” ceasefire on the baseless assumption that the American people want to move on.
Fox News and National Review legal analyst Andrew McCarthy just posted a myopic column tsk-tsking plans to investigate wrongdoing not only related to the criminal cases against the incoming president but by members of the January 6 select committee and the Department of Justice’s ongoing prosecution of January 6 protesters. “Winning was his retribution,” McCarthy declared. “Against the odds and thanks to the Supreme Court, he was able to make an effective electoral case against lawfare because, at a gut level, Americans reject the rigged, punitive exploitation of law enforcement. Neither the public nor the courts are going to tolerate retributive lawfare.”
McCarthy was particularly offended at comments made by Steve Bannon during his November 26 “War Room” show. (I was a guest that day to discuss Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request to dismiss the January 6 case in Washington.) Bannon, who was imprisoned this year by the Biden DOJ for defying a subpoena from the illicit J6 committee, again warned that judges, prosecutors, and others would face investigation for “destroying lives.”...SNIP
Turnabout is Fair Play and if they did Nothing Wrong, they have nothing to worry about. and NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW right?
“It’s not revenge he’s after. It’s a reckoning.” - Val Kilmer’s Doc Holiday in the movie Tombstone.
Not this time, McCarthy! Republicans have turned the other cheek so many times, and it has gotten them repeatedly beaten up. Democrats are not just wrong, they are EVIL, and evil cannot be placated or tolerated. It must be met with justice.
And how would that punish the persecutors? Our tax dollars would be spent to pay the J6ers. The ones who persecuted them would suffer no loss. That’s not justice.
BTTT
“Your opinion is not law!”
Correct, my opinion is not law. The thing is, it’s completely rational for the situation that the people that have committed the crimes deserve. Justice must be done, and the voice of the people must be heard, or there is no Republic. That’s the way it is, so think about the realities and what you really want for your nation. Do you want a Constitutional Republic? There can be only one solution for what these people have done and since the actions had long reaching effects on many real ‘civilians’ the venue for their trails must be fair. Every State has a claim of injury from there actions. The 100k per year that died from Fentanyl overdoses families have a say. Economic devastation loams, the damage is nationally obvious. There was mass murder committed by their ‘illegal actions’ using TS clearances and government positions to support a non-democratic government.
Extreme measures will test the law. Believe me when I tell you that the public will want Justice, the SCOTUS will want Justice, the families of the Dead want Justice. The crimes effected a nation, were done while employees of the people, and should get ‘special’ attention.
Nope, sometimes crimes of conspiracy, illegal activity, and mass murder require another kind of process. Think Nuremburg. These individuals require ‘special’ attention. What happened with the agencies, the corruption, the use of government resources to attack and threaten the ‘People’ is going to require ‘special’ attention. Expect a ‘New’ process for Justice, but expect Justice.
By the way, if what I believe to be true about the activities of these agencies and actors, what stops the POTUS from declaring Martial Law to deal with the bad actors. Who does hearing for these ‘employees’ under those terms? Wiki “Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution states, “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” There have been many instances of the use of the military within the borders of the United States, such as during the Whiskey Rebellion and in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, but those acts are not tantamount to a declaration of martial law. Deployment of troops does not necessarily mean that the civil courts cannot function, which is one of the keys,[vague] as the US Supreme Court noted,[citation needed] to martial law.In United States law, martial law is limited by several court decisions that were handed down between the American Civil War and World War II. In 1878, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids US military involvement in domestic law enforcement without congressional approval.”
Expect Congressional approval......
Start with “Senator” Schiff.
Department of Justice now are predictably demanding a “lawfare” ceasefire ..
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how hamas of them.
McCarthy has cast his legacy-lot with the rest of the flea-brains at NRO.
Bad choice, IMHO.
Most of the J6 prisoners were out-of-towners. File in the jurisdictions from which they were taken into custody.
Compensation is our foremost obligation.
They pay taxes too.
‘Lawfare’ is just one facet of the way that democrats have exploited our legal system since Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer led the Justice Department under Obama.
They systematically milked every technicality for it’s malicious potential to further their ends—exploiting civil courts through NGO proxies, planning timetables and court schedule lags to run out the clock to evade opposition or frustrate—tactics that went far beyond anything done before.
Ever since, the courthouse has been a battlefield for the government to push it’s political agenda, and it’s where strategic loss is as good as any win.
Mercy to the cruel is cruelty to the just and merciful. The only way to end lawfare is to make our adversaries suffer its consequences and learn to fear and abhor it as we have.
Retribution is justice.
The low status ranks among them must bear the punishment. The figureheads, the hot-shots cannot wield power except through these grunts. Their agents don’t need to see their bosses fall from power, they need to see their bosses rendered incapable of protecting or helping them. That is the essence of demoralization; it reverts the field back to an intermittent, unpredictable reward/punish regime.
So start with the lowest branch and work up. It shouldn’t be too difficult to stay ahead of the courts, following Holder’s recipe.
With old fashioned retribution.
“You’ve never heard of a motion for change of venue?”
The defendant would have to file such a motion. No DC ‘ratfink is going to want to get tried outside of DC.
Justice has always been “legal retribution”.
Excellant post.
What BS! Either side, the prosecution or the defense, can make that motion.
What BS! Either side, the prosecution or the defense, can make that motion.
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