We all claim to want limited and Constitutional government. This is a state case. Absent some federal legal question, the whole case will be handled by the New York state courts.
The last thing limited government proponents want is the federal courts reaching down into state jurisdiction.
Yeah, but damn near everything conservative states do nowadays seems to get overturned by the Feds, so the “reaching down” part seems a unevenly applied.
The Constitution (often I think via the Feds citing the 14th) is also supposed to extend protection of our unalienable (granted by God) rights, including especially those listed in the Bill of Rights (though We the People have more rights not listed) to We the People in the states.
New York has chosen to single out essentially ONE person, President Trump, in a grossly unprecedented manner which is functionally a bill of attainder, and the hits just keep coming.
We the People have the unalienable right (listed and not listed) not to be singled out (lawfare) by government at any level.
When that CRIME is occurring before our very eyes and can easily be seen by appellate courts, why should it be allowed to proceed?
You will probably laugh at that, but that is what people are seeing and thinking and feeling as we watch this travesty.
So no surprise we are a skeptical, and do not want to see a former President randomly languishing for four years in a prison (like “J6” people in Washington), with the US Congressional Democrats subsequently (as they seem to be planning) having viciously, in another grossly obvious bill of attainder, taken away his Secret Service protection.
Is this why Bragg is mum on the nature of the felony that he used to bootstrap his expired misdemeanors into a felony?
The Trump team can't defend against the underlying felony because Bragg won't say what it is, so most people assume that it is a campaign finance violation -- which is federal, not state.
Until Bragg divulges what the felony is, nobody can go to federal court to challenge it. Once the trial starts and the felony is known, what is the recourse at that point to go to a federal court?
-PJ
When basic civil rights are violated there is nothing wrong with Federal courts stepping in.