Posted on 05/30/2024 4:28:10 PM PDT by Reddy
A very senior Republican is running for election. Prosecutors are determined to take him out, and are willing to compromise the integrity of the criminal justice system to do so. They indict their target on accounting matters. They cannot prevent him from being a candidate, but malicious prosecutors hope to damage that candidacy.
Am I writing about Donald Trump? No. As this column never tires of shouting about the descent of the American criminal justice system into a playground for prosecutorial abuse of power: Remember Ted Stevens!
If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone, although with the necessary adaptations, which in Trump’s case inevitably included an actress in pornographic films.
Many Americans, blithely unaware of how lawless their criminal justice system has become, accuse the Manhattan district attorney of partisan bias against Trump, as the Democrat campaigned for office on a promise that he would be tough on Trump. It’s much worse than that. Prosecutors do not need a partisan agenda to abuse their power. Abuse of power is a thoroughly bipartisan and nonpartisan affair.
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was, in 2008, the longest serving Republican senator in American history. He was cruising to re-election that year and expected to easily extend his 40 (!) years in the Senate. The federal department of justice had been investigating corruption in Alaska but had landed no big fish. Stevens was the biggest fish in all Alaska and one of the biggest in Washington.
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It happens to every Republican who doesn’t cave to Democrats. We have a politically weaponized system of justice. Corrupt as Hell.
“The naked legal persecution of the Republicans’ most senior senator took place under a Republican administration. The attorneys general of George W. Bush did nothing to stop it.”
And the GOPe has sat back on its laurels watching this clown show.
Tom Delay, Geatz (sp), others.
5.56mm
I happened to the Jan. 6th people.
Peter Navarro, Roger Stone....General Flynn
NO ONE can tell me the SCROTUS can't or SHOULDN'T ACT on this. This is beyond an outrage. DENYING Trump from campaigning is indeed a matter SCROTUS should IMMEDIATELY REMEDY.
Hey McConnell, WhereTF are you?
Railroading; Miscarriage of justice based on politics......
Alex Jones.... But people were OK with that, because, well it was Alex Jones.
Owen Shroyer, But people were OK with that, because, well, he works for Alex Jones.
Roger Stone, But people were OK with that because he is annoying and sometimes talks to Alex Jones.
Hundreds of “Jan 6” political prisoners, but that’s OK because “out of sight, out of mind”
General Flynn, because well... I don’t know why no one cares about that.
Etc.
Etc.
If SCOTUS decided the 19 states had no standing to challenge illegal election law changes in tossup states, they might as well rule Trump has no standing in this judicial farce.
They went after Flynn because of his book on Iran.
Stevens got what he deserved. If not for what they charged then something else they missed.
We certainly won’t be hearing from Alaska Senator Murkowski for her ROLE in railroading Ted Stevens to steal his seat. She is a disgusting weak, weaselly RINO biotch. so we won’t hear— or maybe she’ll be invigorated by anti-Trump RINO repubs, and McConnell the fossil.
What are you talking about?
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