The question not asked by Tucker was Now what? What are you or his current legal team going to do about these videos?
“The question not asked by Tucker was Now what? What are you or his current legal team going to do about these videos?”
It was known well before the Tucker programs this week the government was withholding evidence, particularly the videos. Yet there was no concerted effort by the defendant’s attorneys to appeal to higher courts, and the Supreme Court about the denial of due process rights by judges and the DOJ.
It was clear the federal bureaucracy, senior politicians of both parties, and federal judges in Washington were working together to make an example of anyone they could possibly pin a charge on who was at the Trump rally or on the grounds of the Capitol. Certainly the legal community knew this and the best attorneys did not take these cases. Few of the defendants had the resources to hire top legal counsel much less pay for the appeals required to get to the Supreme Court. The government purposefully held them in prison, without trial, to wear them down to plea in order to get on with their lives. Now the government can talk about the hundreds of guilty verdicts, most of which were coerced through denial of due process and the inability of the defendants to secure competent legal counsel.
Any young attorney representing these people had to know that if she/he pushed too hard, their future careers would be affected. Wheres in the past some great jurists have taken “hopeless” cases, for these cases the aristocracy of the legal profession, including the most prominent civil libertarians, turned their back. Providing any of the January 6 defendants a strong defense was a career ending move and would result in damnation by the captive media who gave up their independence years ago.
Sadly, few Republican lawmakers have addressed this travesty of justice. They should be in unison expressing outrage about the denial of constitution rights of due process to their constituents. Instead they openly violate their oath of office to defend the Constitution, by their inaction and condemnation of the defendants in mass. I am particularly disgusted by the statements of my Republican Senator Thom Tillis this week who lined up with Romney and McConnell to speak out against Tucker Carlson and Fox News.
The Tucker tapes, and the reaction of the establishment organizations and politicians to them, are further evidence that the Constitution is no longer respected by those in power. The tyranny the founders feared, is virtually unopposed. When the leaders of the two parties in the Senate openly state what the press should and should not report, it is evident neither have respect for the rights of citizens guaranteed by the Constitution they swore to protect. That they dare to do so without universal condemnation suggests the people of the nation have accepted their chains.