Posted on 04/02/2023 11:15:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The indictment of Donald Trump brings into sharp focus two great constitutional principles. Great in that they are foundational — without them, whatever edifice one may build above is compromised and will sooner or later collapse.
The first of these principles is that voiced now by the legion enemies of Donald Trump. It had been voiced earlier by the legion enemies of Hillary Clinton and today by the legion enemies of Joe Biden. It is the idea, traced quite properly by Fortescue back to Biblical law, that everyone, even the king, is answerable to the law of God. The English Common Law tradition, also quite properly, sees itself as sanctioned by God’s law and assented to willingly by the people to bring peaceable governance to the nation. Thus, Magna Carta and the Petition of Right, establishing constitutional limits to royal power, and explicitly restricting the king’s power. All are under the law.
Presidents in office have an immunity from prosecution as did kings. But presidents have so only while in office, and once outside it, whether by conviction on articles of impeachment or simply at the end of their elected term, those immunities disappear.
The public grasps the unfairness of a two-tiered legal system. If, for the same action forbidden by law, some people go to prison while others enjoy their liberty, corruption has taken hold. The stench of this corruption is what gave power to the cry of “drain the swamp!” — the apprehension of tens of millions of Americans that powerful elites at the center of American government held one law for themselves and an entirely different one for those they called deplorables and clingers, whom those elites thought (and still think) need to be put in their place by their betters.
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And that’s exactly what it is
They need this to gag him and prevent him from running for president with this indictment. If he comes through with shining colors they will start a world war to keep them in their seats and cancel the election in 2024
This is a proof-of-concept.
If it works, it will be used against all Republican candidates who are not part of the Swamp.
Biden ran from his basement.
President Trump may have to run from a jail cell.
This is equal to a declaration of war.
This is a proof-of-concept.
They pulled the same thing off in Texas against the then Speaker of the House. And Sarah Palin was also hounded out of office by ‘law fare’.
The reality is that there are jurisdictions like NYC, DC, Atlanta where any Republican accused of any crime is pretty likely to be convicted. Post a meme about voting for Hillary by cell phone and you’re looking at 10 years.
Anyone have and can post pictures of armed average men holding the Land management and fbi at bay with weapons. Even then they put at least one behind bars and one under 6 feet of dirt.
It didn't matter to Earle because he knew that the House GOP had a party rule that leadership must step down if under an ethics investigation, and so his goal was to use the Republicans' rules against them.
Tom Delay's Mug Shot
-PJ
Was he the one who asked, “Where do I go to get my reputation back?”
That was New York City's Raymond Donovan, who was President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Labor in his first term.
A Bronx grand jury indicted Donovan on larceny and fraud charges related to a city project to construct a subway line extension. A jury eventually acquitted Donovan, but he had to resign from the Reagan administration after being indicted.
Another NYC DA taking out a high-profile Republican working for an "evil" Republican president.
-PJ
Look, I don’t know what’s in the indictment. And the process is political, beyond a doubt.
But subornation of perjury and tax evasion are real crimes, and if (IF) the State can prove them, this is a real problem.
IF I can prove you're a pedophile human-trafficker, you have a real problem, and I have as much proof you're a pedophile human-trafficker as Bragg does for "subornation of perjury and tax evasion."
As a matter of fact, there is a lot of evidence Bragg "suborned perjury" by putting a convicted perjurer on the stand in the grand jury "ham sandwich" trial.
Not only that, it appears Bragg misused federal funds for the "investigation."
According to Alan Dershowitz, this is the worst example he has ever seen of 'prosecutorial abuse of discretion.'
I am just curious. Where did you get your law degree?
Needed from the RNC: a thorough, but understandable, white paper discussing the charges and why they aren’t crimes under our Constitution.
The democrat party has made their most dangerous moves they won’t enjoy their times in court or in jail.
They will lose a lot of their base on their actions.
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