malicious prosecution
Posted on 12/13/2018 4:10:07 AM PST by gattaca
A series of New York State Attorney Generals have weaponized the Office of Attorney General against Donald Trump, his relatives, and his businesses.
AG Eric Schneiderman, who ended up resigning in disgrace after sexual abuse allegations, made a name for himself by threatening Trump, as the NY Times reported just before Schneiderman resigned:
For the last 17 months, Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, had held himself up as the anti-Trump: a one-man legal wrecking ball, taking on the president and his agenda in both the courts and the court of public opinion…
Some have even held up Mr. Schneiderman as a potential backstop to prosecute crimes should President Trump choose to pardon his associates in the continuing special counsel investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III. The president’s vast federal pardoning powers do not apply to violation of state laws.
Schneiderman’s interim successor, AG Barbara Underwood, continued the use of the Office of Attorney General to get a political enemy. Her press release reflected the full-blown attempt to take down a variety of Trumps:
Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood today announced a lawsuit against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, and its directors, Donald J. Trump (“Mr. Trump”), Donald J. Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump. The petition filed today alleges a pattern of persistent illegal conduct, occurring over more than a decade, that includes extensive unlawful political coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit Mr. Trump’s personal and business interests, and violations of basic legal obligations for non-profit foundations. The Attorney General initiated a special proceeding to dissolve the Trump Foundation under court supervision and obtain restitution of $2.8 million and additional penalties. The AG’s lawsuit also seeks a ban from future service as a director of a New York not-for-profit of 10 years for Mr. Trump and one year for each of the Foundation’s other board members, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump. The Attorney General also sent referral letters today to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission, identifying possible violations of federal law for further investigation and legal action by those federal agencies.
All of the candidates for NY AG in 2018 pledged to use the Office to get Trump. As CNBC reported, candidate Letitia James was particularly aggressive in pledging to get Trump:
“The president of the United States has to worry about three things: Mueller, Cohen, and Tish James,” James told Yahoo News for an article published last month.
James won the Democrat nomination, and needless to say, the General Election. James, getting ready to take over the huge AG Office and all its power, pledged again to get Trump. NBC News reports:
New York Attorney Gen.-elect Letitia James says she plans to launch sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump, his family and “anyone” in his circle who may have violated the law once she settles into her new job next month.
“We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well,” James, a Democrat, told NBC News in her first extensive interview since she was elected last month.
James outlined some of the probes she intends to pursue with regard to the president, his businesses and his family members. They include:
Any potential illegalities involving Trump’s real estate holdings in New York, highlighting a New York Times investigation published in October into the president’s finances. The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian official. Examine government subsidies Trump received, which were also the subject of Times investigative work. Whether he is in violation of the emoluments clause in the U.S. Constitution through his New York businesses. Continue to probe the Trump Foundation. “We want to investigate anyone in his orbit who has, in fact, violated the law,” said James, who was endorsed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
James campaigned on passing a bill to change New York’s double jeopardy laws with an eye on possible pardons coming out of the White House. James told NBC News she wants to be able to pursue state charges against anyone the president were to pardon over federal charges or convictions and whose alleged crimes took place in the state. Under current New York law, she might not be able to do that…
For her part, James said she thinks Mueller’s “doing an excellent job.”
“I think he’s closing in on this president,” she said, “and his days are going to be coming to an end shortly.”
That the state prosecutors office would weaponized against a political opponent in such a way is a truly frightening reminder of what I wrote about in August 2018, The value of Trump to the Trump voter is that he stands between them and #TheResistance:
The sharks clearly are circling all things Trump looking for a crime which, even if it can’t remove Trump from the presidency, will put a price tag on anyone associated with Trump….
Right now the value of Trump to the Trump voter is he is all that stands between them and the people who hate them every bit as much as they hate Trump.
Or if you want an even shorter version, “the Flight 93 Election never ended”:
2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You—or the leader of your party—may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.
Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound the metaphor: a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto. With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances.
Trump voters are berated and belittled with the same ferocity as directed at Trump himself. #TheResistance doesn’t distinguish between Trump and his voters.
What’s at stake in 2020 is not just an election, it’s whether we will enable the open abuse of state power by Democrats.
She just “poisoned the tree”. Good luck in getting a conviction after that stupid statement, bich.
I agree but not nazi commandos. IMO do what FDR in WW2 did. Make an agreement with the mob. I guess there are some lepke wannabes around. If not recruit a dirty dozen like group from a super max.
Upstatehood is our only hope. And we will never get it. Which is why makers are voting with their feet and are leaving. Which means even less power in the House after the next census. Well, sucks for us, but great news for taxpayers nationwide.
malicious prosecution
...and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
We fought a war over this ****.
fifty million Americans are waiting a signal
to take apart the corrupt DO”J” and their corrupt
criminals.
18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights
US Code
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
” malicious prosecution”
Yes. It’s ironic that after all the complaints and protests against law enforcement officers abusing their power, this woman wants to use her position in an abuse of power.
Since when does a state AG have the legal authority to harness the power of the State to go after an individual a priori because of the personal animus of the AG toward said individual?
I'm asking.
or better yet....a seal team...in and out....no traces
It is why the Green Mountain Boys were formed as a fighting force in the mid 1700s.
They never killed anybody, but they tarred and feathered, tied naked to trees and beech branch whipped, and rode out on a rail many New York surveyors and officials.
Trump may be Ethan Allen reincarnated.
May have to happen again?
Some of my ancestors were Green Mountain Boys. :-)
They are spinning now...
Aren’t there any federal laws protecting people from this kind of stuff? It’s one thing to campaign on fighting crime, it’s another to have a vendetta agains a specific President. Judges have stymied Trump on banning immigration from Islamic nations based on their perception of his intent from the campaign trail. What is the intent of this overzealous AG but to destroy a political foe? Criminal activity or the lack thereof being ignored by that AG.
Isn’t it illegal to threaten litigation?
I mean, bringing litigation, OK... but to THREATEN litigation is a crime ..... I thought
Maybe an attorney here knows
Can you say, ‘CONFLICT OF INTEREST?’
Conspiracy to deprive rights under color of law, maybe?
This must be illegal.
We’ve become a banana republic.
I agree.
Trump should be using the full power of the federal government to go after these crooks.
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