I was right but I left out black.
Posted on 02/14/2025 7:31:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning. In his first term, he transformed the term "fake news" from describing a specific problem with a type of misinformation into an attack on any journalist he didn't like or a piece of journalism that made him look bad.
Now he's doing the same to the word "lawfare," and the stakes are even higher — including, potentially, the guardrails of our democracy.
Coined in 2001, "lawfare" refers to the use of courts and other legal systems to damage or delegitimize a political opponent. After Trump left office four years ago, he began using lawfare incorrectly to describe the various criminal cases he was embroiled in due to paying hush money, allegedly trying to overturn an election and allegedly mishandling classified documents.
Let’s be clear: courts can only consider the cases brought before them. Democratic attorneys general and nonprofits are not filing these lawsuits to hurt Trump. Judges (including Republican appointees) are not ruling against Trump out of personal animus, but because they want to slow things down. It’s not lawfare, as Trump would have you believe. It’s the law, applied fairly.
But what happens if Trump's supporters believe his claims? After all, we watched with our own eyes as he convinced millions of our fellow Americans that the 2020 election was rigged without a shred of good evidence. If he can undermine the legitimacy of our elections, who's to say that he can't do the same with our courts?
And therein lies the crisis we'll soon be facing. The most powerful man in the world is attacking the system of laws he's sworn to uphold. The real lawfare right now is one that Trump is waging against the courts, and that should concern all of us.
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You just KNOW she is a wheelchair-bound tranny lesbian midget.
The Progressives have largely destroyed the rule of law and can no longer expect the "law" to protect them.
Everything the Democrats did to us; we will do to them.
In particular, President Trump must ignore the rulings of Democrat-controlled courts.
This may not turn out well for anybody in the long run, but "Tit-for-Tat" is the only solution.
There is no lawful basis for the recent court orders against the executive branch. The judges operate on the principle that Democrats are allowed to do anything they want, and Republican executives are not allowed to do anything.
No, we are not going to tolerate that system.
I was right but I left out black.
The title appears to have it backwards.
Activist Leftist Judges and Soros-bought corrupt nit-wit blue state AG’s
FULL panic mode!
I wonder what color the sky is in her world.
lololol
The author is a retard.
MSNBC IS LOADED with idiots.
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