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Dems use the legal system to target the right — yet give the left a pass
New York Post ^ | May 6, 2024, | Glenn H. Reynolds

Posted on 05/08/2024 5:12:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

This philosophy, announced by Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in the 1940s, is no longer just the favored approach of Latin American strongmen. It has become the openly practiced strategy of today’s Democratic machine.

Laws that hamper Democrats are ignored. Laws that might be used to hurt Republicans are enforced to — and often well past — the limits of the law.

One need look no farther than the absurd circus-clown show trial (one pundit prefers the term “goat rodeo”) in which the state of New York has gone so far in trying to turn Donald Trump’s (alleged) personal peccadilloes into business crimes that Gov. Hochul had to go out of her way to reassure other businessmen that this was a one-off, and that only Trump would be prosecuted under this novel approach to the law.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abuse; bias; democrats; demonicrats; doublestandard; law; lawfare; persecution; prosecution; republicans
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To: griswold3
Solution?

It's TIME to DownSize_DC!

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

21 posted on 05/08/2024 7:11:35 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Billthedrill

I first heard of ‘Critical Legal Studies’ from a law student in 1974!


22 posted on 05/08/2024 10:57:22 AM PDT by dodger
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