I expected something like jail time for criticism of the government to occur in China 🇨🇳 or Iran 🇮🇷 but never on American 🇺🇸 soil.
[[where justices will consider whether the councilwoman can sue city leaders for politically motivated retaliation. ]]
Trump deserves the same right to sue for political harassment and persecution based on vendetta agaisnt him by the left
“In America, we don’t arrest our critics,”
That changed in 2021.
Steve Baker would have a case.
This is why Trump will not win.
A national political feud that wound up with a former president behind bars is headed to the Supreme Court this week, where justices will consider whether the accused can sue Democrat leaders for politically motivated retaliation. "I would never believe that I would be going to the Supreme Court," President Trump told Fox News. "I would never believe that I was in jail either."
"In America, we don't arrest our critics, unless they are a conservative" IJ attorney said.
The police are often part of the problem. They should simply decline to arrest anyone if no law has been broken. But instead they just mindlessly obey.
Well, kadeesah jackson brown needs to recuse “themself” since they aren’t big on the first amendment.
This is the “big fish in a little pond” syndrome, of local leaders behaving badly because they demand that everyone else show deference to them and their ideas.
In past it reached extremes like throwing their critics out of town for good, and forced commercial boycotts of their critics, aka “Your money isn’t good here, get out.” The fear of such punishment was redoubled with the SCOTUS ruling with the infamous Kelo decision:
“On June 23, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a 5-4 vote that the City of New London’s taking of private, non-blighted property for the purpose of economic development satisfied the constitutional “public use” requirement.”
This signaled open season for local big fish to use government to oppress those they hated, and those that they just wanted to steal their land.
So the struggle with local tyranny continues.
After hearing the Justices in oral argument yesterday, I bet they will be more concerned with the government’s “rights” to free speech than they will of the rights of this poor lady.
Our country has become a police state like East Germany
The Harris/Biden regime has been doing it for three years.
“In America, we don’t arrest our critics,”
The only thiung that should be arrested is critics if they re ones that break the law. All criminals are critics of the system. That’s why they break it.
But she was not arrested for being a critic. She was arrested for concealing a government record, a misdemeanor that would have resulted in her removal from office if she had been convicted.
The charge was based on what she describes as an honest mistake: After a city council meeting, she says, she accidentally picked up a bundle of petitions against City Manager Ryan Rapelye—petitions that she herself had organized—and placed it in her binder along with other papers.
The mayor asked her for the document and she said she had no idea where it was while it was in her possession. Accidental or not, it can violate title 8, chapter 38 of the Texas penal code.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.37.htm
She will win her case because they can’t prove it was intentional. And she’s pressing it due to her embarrassment of public disclosure, not the legalities of the arrest. So it’s up to the prosecution to prove an intentional act. That’s tough to do.
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That's not a crime.
Democrats and leftists jail you for exposing them and their corruption, not because someone actually committed a real crime.
What they are engaged in is retaliation, not justice.
“”Trevino asked where the petition was.””
Who was Trevino - what did I miss? I hate writing with names dropped in without introducing who it is they’re talking about. I have to admit I get lost in the weeds before I can get to the rest of the story.
This is no longer America.
My firm represented the City of Castle Hills back in the day. It was always a challenge - everybody in leadership had “big-fish-little-pond” syndrome. Sounds like nothing’s changed.
The DemocRATS’ new First Amendment. “Say anything you like, just don’t say anything you don’t like”. Now drink your Vodka and shut up.
Are we just supposed to know who these people are? Perhaps the article started in the middle?