My Gazette: Judicial and Prosecutorial Corruption

Lawfare is destroying the Rule of Law in America

 By Rich Kozlovich 

Editor's Note:  You may wish to review my entire Lawfare file of articles.  RK

The article has links that go quite a way back, but I use them for two reasons.  The facts are the facts, irrespective of time frames, and that history establishes a pattern, a consistent pattern that make those facts incontestable.  Since SCOTUS Jurist Ketanji Brown Jackson has started the First Amendment could be used to limit federal power by hamstringing the government in significant wary.  Well...duh....that's why it's in the Constitution, and why it's the First Amendment, not the 27th.  She  even claims the First Amendment isn't popular among Constitutional scholars, and given the Marxist bent of Academia we're supposed to think should mean something to rational people.  Jackson is a nitwit/dimwit/misfit, and the only bench she's qualified to sit on is a park bench.

I have a massive file on her, but this article touches all the bases, and understand, she's not alone by any stretch of the immigration, and not even the worst of the political hacks sitting on the nation's federal bench. 

One of my 200 Rules is:  Definition leads to clarity.  Clarity leads to understanding.  Understanding leads to good decision making.   More and more writers keep asking: If you can't define something how can you possibly rule on it?  One writer asked it she really is the "first" black woman to be nominated to the court?  After all, if "woman" is indefinable, perhaps "black" is also indefinable. Since the left now demands we can self identify to whatever we wish to be, and society "MUST" accept that, perhaps she's not black or a woman?  How's this.  Not only can someone self identify, everyone else can identify them as they please, and they "MUST" accept that?  

When we lose sight of the basics there's no end to the insanity.  The left destroys us with our own values, and for the left, there are no boundaries, barriers or foundational values to which they subscribe.  They use every emotional tactic possible and lie, making accusations they know are false.  They will embrace the philosophical flavor of the moment with great enthusiasm and self righteous fervor, until that no longer works, and then embrace a view that's diametrically opposed to their previous position with equal fervor if needs be to get and hold power.   The left isn't wrong, it's evil, it's efforts are ubiquitous, even attempting to prevent Israel from fixing the judicial mess there.  

State Department-funded Group Tries to Silence Netanyahu over Judicial Reform - Joel B. Pollak 2 Apr 2023 - Israel’s Movement for Quality Government (MQG), which received funding from the U.S. State Department, is trying to stop Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking about his own government’s judicial reforms. As Breitbart News has reported, the MQG has supported recent protests against Netanyahu and his judicial reforms, many of which parallel existing practice in the U.S. The State Department admitted last week that it provided some funding to the group, including under the Trump administration, for education programs, but denied that the U.S. was involved in “propping up or supporting these protests or the initiators of them.”......

Anyone picked to be a part of the federal judiciary by the Biden administration supports all their evil, or they wouldn't have been nominated, and they share in that evil.  Some of these piece go back a way, and some of these issues are resolved, but it's the pattern of history that's important.  They are in fact Criminals in Black Robes. "It is going to take a new Justice Department and several other changes to get lawbreaking judges out of our courtrooms."

Make no mistake, the Constitution is under threat, and it's under threat by the political hacks of America's judiciary, at both the state and federal level.

Democracy in Decline: The Subversion of Rule of Law By Roger Kimball -  There are many signs and portents that signal the guttering of the rule of law and its replacement: rule by law. It is an autumnal sign—a sign of civilization at the end of its tether.  A friend recently wrote me to offer a sharp formulation of a distinction I have often written about myself. Regular readers know that I am fond of distinguishing between “democracy”—a political arrangement in which the demos, the people, rule—and “Our Democracy™,” a counterfeit or masquerade of democracy in which not the people but an elite nomenklatura rule. To an increasing extent, I believe, the United States is gradually subsisting into the latter, with all the political, social, and moral deformations that such anxious oligarchical arrangements entail..........Their modern successors have inhabited that political dispensation, slyly perverting and emptying it out of its original signification while maintaining the names and rituals of the original..........

Could the reactivation of FISA’s warrantless searches eventually be used to police thought crimes? - February 16, 2024 By Dale Lowdermilk - The Republican House had unceremoniously sent forward a bill that would reauthorize Section 702, a highly-controversial provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), but yesterday, over a little too much negative press, they temporarily shelved the vote. Without congressional intervention, Section 702 is set to expire in a little over two months.  FISA was originally meant to target noncitizens abroad, especially suspected terrorists, but somewhere along the way, the trawl net snared suspicious, non-woke, non-PhD, MAGA-like, presidential candidates who talked about draining the swamp of Washington D.C. and rooting out the corruption plauging the people.............

 

Recapping the two-tiered justice system in light of revelations that foreign intel spied on Trump associates February 16, 2024  By Jack Hellner - The Obama and Biden administrations have continually used government bureaucrats to target political opponents. The media has known this for a long time, and hasn’t cared. They pretend that Obama and Biden were clean, and that Trump was/is the “greatest threat to democracy” America has ever seen.  The story below is one of pure election interference in the 2016 election:

1. ‘Suspicious Reversal’ DOJ Backs Off from Massive Fraud Case Against Dem Megadonor Dish CEO, BlackRock Executives
2.   Why wasn't the FBI informant linked to Biden's impeachment inquiry arrested years ago since they had the information years ago?

Let’s jettison due process to ‘save our democracy’ - February 26, 2024 By George Shuster - The Left’s frenzied focus on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment is a typical deflection maneuver. As usual it represents the selection of one part of the Constitution found useful for the purpose du jour, while conveniently ignoring more important sections that preclude the Left’s agendas. It was gratifying to see that all members of the Supreme Court raised some of these other issues during the oral argument about the attempt to keep President Trump off the ballot. Even the leftist justices refused to be lulled into the trap of a singular focus on Section 3 to the exclusion of all else. They were clearly troubled, for example, by the implications for the Constitution’s structure of federalism. It would be of great service to our democracy if the justices were unanimous in holding that Section 3 cannot be used to jettison the rest of the Constitution....

Hawaii and the spirit of Aloha February 10, 2024  By Mike McDaniel Did you know there is a heretofore unknown legal principle known as “the spirit of Aloha,” which for Hawaii--at last check a part of the United States—takes precedence over the Bill of Rights? Hawaii’s Supreme Court thinks so: Hawaii's highest court ruled Wednesday that Second Amendment rights as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court do not extend to Hawaii citizens, citing the "spirit of Aloha."

Julie Kelly exposes the secret activities of the DC District Court - By John Dale Dunn - The outgoing DC Courts chief judge Beryl Howell has been involved in many secret activities and has closeted the trial court and grand jury proceedings as well as issuing secret opinions on many matters of Grand Jury activities and evidentiary matters. Read this article, “Time to End the Veil of Secrecy Inside D.C. Kangaroo Court” by Julie Kelly, to get a sense of the magnitude of corruption and enablement of prosecutorial and grand jury abuses.Judge Howell appears to have enjoyed her role as a prosecutor's helper.Also getting special mention in this essay is Judge Tim Kelly who has left the constitutional reservation and is making new and creative violations of civil rights. This is so bad only a judge or a lawyer could begin to fathom the significance of the violations of Judicial rules and civil rights of defendants. ............The past two years have introduced us to a new Stalinesque approach to prosecuting political opponents in America.  Lavrentiy Beria and old Uncle Joe Stalin would approve......

Here are more John Dale Dunn pieces on the collapse of American's rule of law:

The Bidens’ existential threats to the American rule of law
The implosion of the Rule of Law
The left's political damage is revolutionary

Academia and The Corruption of American Law

Mendacity and Corruption in the Judiciary - By Clarice Feldman  March 17, 2024 -Something is seriously wrong with American law schools and the disciplinary outfits that are supposed to monitor corrupt conduct of practitioners. You can see the effects of this degradation in the outrageous behavior of government prosecutors and in the judiciary, which ignores its responsibility to decide fairly and without bias. We are churning out dishonest, corrupt lawyers and judges who are more than willing to look the other way at such behavior, condoning the most obvious selective partisan prosecutions. As the awareness of the failure of the judicial system grows, the consequences will be enormous -- respect for the traditional way of resolving disputes and obeying the law are fundamental aspects of a civilized, prosperous nation. Once that is lost, other less tenable means will be employed. The focus this week was on the absurd case in Georgia, where D.A. Fani Willis is criminalizing Donald Trump’s challenge to the integrity of Georgia’s presidential election in 2020...........

Two Fifth Circuit Judges Will Not Hire Stanford Law School Clerks - Joel B. Pollak 2 Apr 2023 -  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho announced Saturday that he and Judge Elizabeth Branch will not hire clerks from Stanford Law School after last month’s attempt to silence Judge Kyle Duncan.  Last year, Judges Ho and Branch had also announced a boycott of clerkship applicants from Yale Law School, the Washington Free Beacon notes, in protest of that school’s “cancel culture” toward conservative views........

Equal Rights 

Big: Federal court rules that federal agency serving minority businesses alone is discriminatory - 

March 7, 2024 By Monica Showalter - Is another brick coming off the wall of the race-grievance industrial complex? That's what the Washington Post reports, without admitting it, in an important federal court ruling shutting down biased, counterproductive racial preferences in federal government "help" to small businesses.According to the Post:

Immigration

Illegal aliens: of course they have Second Amendment rights! By Mike McDaniel  March 17, 2024 “The undocumented.” “Newcomers.” We’re now told illegal aliens aren’t illegal, and it’s wrong to refer to people who break the law the moment they step onto American soil and remain as anything other than “undocumented” or something equally undescriptive and inaccurate. But do illegal aliens have a Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms? An Obama appointed federal judge, who once thought they don’t, now thinks they do:

Obama-appointed Chicago judge rules that the 2A applies to an illegal, and he has a right to keep his illegally-possessed firearm - March 19, 2024 By Olivia Murray - The lawless free-for-all created by the political establishment and an apathetic voting class has me seriously considering renouncing my American citizenship—just think about all the possibilities!  You don’t pay income tax. The government hands you prepaid debit cards loaded with thousands of dollars. You get “free” trips to swanky enclaves like Martha’s Vineyard, only to be treated like guests of honor. You’re provided with “free” room and board at high-end hotels, or you’re given the leeway to squat in an American’s home. And now, leftist judges tell you that you have Second Amendment rights which cannot be infringed upon, and you can keep your guns no problem, even if you were breaking the law with them—I mean, these are perks and privileges we second-class real citizens aren’t afforded.  Here’s the story, from a report published at The Epoch Times yesterday:...... 

 

Texas blocked—again—from being able to arrest and deport Illegals  - By Gerald McGlothlin March 20, 2024 -  Oh, where to begin in the latest episode of “America’s Judicial Rollercoaster” featuring the audacious blockade by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against Texas's gallant effort to enforce its own borders?  Yes, you heard that right. In a move that could only be concocted in the wildest dreams of a liberal screenplay writer, the appellate court decided to thumb its nose at the U.S. Supreme Court. Why? Simply to prevent Texas from using Senate Bill 4 to do the unfathomable: arrest and deport illegal immigrants. Gasp! The horror of a state taking steps to protect its citizens and uphold law and order! From CBS: ...............

 January 6th

Transcripts Confirm J6 Committee Lied About Trump Attacking Secret Service Joel B. Pollak  12 Mar 2024 Newly-released transcripts of secret testimony at the January 6 Committee show that a witness testified then-President Donald Trump had not wrestled with a Secret Service agent, and had indeed requested troops to protect the Capitol. The transcript of a closed-door interview with Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato and then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on January 28, 2022, was hidden by the committee, as it played up sensational claims that the testimony refuted. In particular, Cheney boosted the accusations by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed publicly — and to great media fanfare — that Trump had tried to commandeer his presidential vehicle to drive to the Capitol riot........

• The Real Story of January 6 Part 2: The Long Road Home | NEW Documentary (Video)

Transcripts Confirm J6 Committee Lied About Trump Attacking Secret Service Joel B. Pollak  12 Mar 2024 Newly-released transcripts of secret testimony at the January 6 Committee show that a witness testified then-President Donald Trump had not wrestled with a Secret Service agent, and had indeed requested troops to protect the Capitol. The transcript of a closed-door interview with Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato and then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on January 28, 2022, was hidden by the committee, as it played up sensational claims that the testimony refuted. In particular, Cheney boosted the accusations by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed publicly — and to great media fanfare — that Trump had tried to commandeer his presidential vehicle to drive to the Capitol riot........

 

Will you be surprised to learn that the J6 Committee colluded with Fani Willis? - March 12, 2024 By Andrea Widburg - From 1936-1938, Stalin held a series of trials in Moscow that effectively purged his opposition through executions and imprisonment in gulags. We remember them as “show trials” because they were pure theater, without any semblance of due process or justice. The sentences were predetermined political outcomes. We suspected that was the case during Nancy Pelosi’s and Liz Cheney’s January 6 investigation and public hearing, but a damning report proves it: The investigation was corrupt (including meetings with Fani Willis), and the public proceedings were dishonest. Stalin may have died in 1953 in Moscow, but his revenants are still hard at work in America in 2024..........

 

Note:  This one is listed twice, and probably could be listed in a number of categories the corruption is so vile and so ubiquitous. RK

Julie Kelly exposes the secret activities of the DC District Court - By John Dale Dunn - The outgoing DC Courts chief judge Beryl Howell has been involved in many secret activities and has closeted the trial court and grand jury proceedings as well as issuing secret opinions on many matters of Grand Jury activities and evidentiary matters. Read this article, “Time to End the Veil of Secrecy Inside D.C. Kangaroo Court” by Julie Kelly, to get a sense of the magnitude of corruption and enablement of prosecutorial and grand jury abuses.Judge Howell appears to have enjoyed her role as a prosecutor's helper.Also getting special mention in this essay is Judge Tim Kelly who has left the constitutional reservation and is making new and creative violations of civil rights. This is so bad only a judge or a lawyer could begin to fathom the significance of the violations of Judicial rules and civil rights of defendants. ............The past two years have introduced us to a new Stalinesque approach to prosecuting political opponents in America.  Lavrentiy Beria and old Uncle Joe Stalin would approve......

 

Religion

 

Federal Judge Finds Christian Pro-Life Activist Guilty After Singing Popular Hymn “HOLY HOLY HOLY” and Quoting Bible Outside Abortion Clinic by Anthony Scott Mar. 12, 2024 - U.S. Federal Judge Joe Anderson, in a non-jury trial, found Christian pro-life activist Steven Lefemine, 68, guilty of violating the Freedom of Access of Clinic Entrances Act (FACE ACT) after he sang the popular hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty” and recited Bible verses outside of an abortion clinic in Columbia, South Carolina.

Trump and His Supporters

Jack Smith Demands Evidence Remain Secret in Trump Case -By Tom Ozimek - Special counsel Jack Smith said in a new court filing that he is strongly opposed to the Trump camp’s latest request to disclose evidence in the former president’s classified documents case, because disclosure would expose potential witnesses to danger. “The defendants’ Motion is inconsistent with the process they proposed (and that the Court approved) for their supplemental reply brief,” Mr. Smith wrote in the Feb. 16 filing. “And their request to disclose discovery materials should be denied for the same reasons the Government has explained elsewhere: doing so would unnecessarily expose potential witnesses to very real dangers of harassment, intimidation, and reprisal.” President Donald Trump’s request to disclose evidence in his classified documents trial is vehemently opposed by special counsel Smith in a filing............

Legal Masterstroke: Judge Aileen Cannon Puts Jack Smith in the Ultimate Pickle - By Discern Reporter • Mar. 19, 2024 - Lawfare is fought on two levels. The first and most public is utilizing vague or outright incorrect interpretations of the law to weaponize it against political opponents. The second level happens with the judges themselves as lawfare practitioners seek “friendly” members of the judiciary to deliver the court actions they desire. For the most part, the enemies of President Donald Trump have won on the second level by putting cases in front of judges that generally hate Trump. But there one major exception is in Florida with Judge Aileen Cannon. She has been a thorn in the side of Special Counsel Jack Smith and on Monday night she may have delivered the death blow to his classified documents case.

Immunity: Not so simple March 19, 2024 By George Shuster The most pervasive claim from the Left as to why the U.S. Supreme Court should not have taken up the Trump immunity issue is that it is supposedly so straightforward as not to require any further discussion. It is ever so simple, they say, and besides, the D.C. Circuit's opinion was so masterful that nothing further needs to be said. Therefore, the Left continues, the only possible motive for taking up the case is the improper purpose of delaying Trump's criminal trials.  The claim is dishonest. Let me enlighten the Left about a few inconvenient facts.

 Trump documents case: a judge wonders March 17, 2024 by Mike McDaniel A "novel legal theory" might consist of applying a vicious dog ordinance to someone who owned only a parrot that could bark like a dog.  Climate bully Michael Mann, with mixed results, has been suing those who criticize his “hockey stick” graph of climate history. This 1998 graph purported to show that global temperature was stable until about 1900 when human-induced warming struck. In February, Mann scored a $1 million libel judgment against Canadian columnist Mark Steyn in a court in the District of Columbia. Steyn has responded with an appeal.   .....

 “Nothing Succeeds Like Excess”: New York’s Perverse Incentive in Pricing Trump Out of an Appeal” - By Johnathan Turley - Below is my column in the New York Post on the confiscatory fines imposed on former president Donald Trump and his family and corporation. Democrats are thrilled by the over the $450 million bill facing Trump and the possibility that he could be forced to sell off property just to seek an appeal. On ABC, New York Attorney General Letitia James declared “If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets.” She added menacingly “yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day.” It is a curious legal system where defendants can be priced out of appeals. While Trump has ample resources and can do this without a “fire sale,” it suggests that a person could be forced to sell a home to challenge its loss in court. Here is the column:..............

Here is the column: Continue reading “Pay to Play: Trump Faces a Staggering Cost for Appeal”  - By Johnathan Turley -Below is my column on Fox.com on the demand for roughly a $455 million dollar deposit or equivalent bond for Donald Trump to be able to seek appellate review of the recent judgment against him. The combination of the fine and the deposit rule highlight the confiscatory elements of this judgment........In the wake of the massive judgment against Donald Trump, many in New York are celebrating the prospect that the former president could be forced to sell off his property just to be able to appeal the $355 million judgment against him. While Trump has good grounds to object to this excessive fine, he still has to come up with close to a half billion dollars just to make his arguments to the New York Court of Appeals. In order to file an appeal, the courts require a deposit for the full amount of the damages or a bond covering the full amount. Even with escrow options, the call for cash or collateral can be enough to put some executives in a fetal position. It can be challenging enough for many companies drained from years of litigation. For Donald Trump, the demand for $355 million plus $100 million in interest could force a fire sale on properties to pony up just the deposit................

 Lawfare Against Trump: Who Will Be Held Accountable? by Allan J. Feifer, WND  -March 15, 2024 - A nagging question has been bothering many for the last year. Let’s say Trump beats all or most of the 93 felony charges lodged against him by his enemies. Who or what will hold these activist Democrats accountable for the damage they’ve done to Trump personally and attempting one of the largest and most organized voter-suppression conspiracies of all time? When your detractors use the law in a way that the Supremes, in a 9-0 decision, rebuff Colorado’s attempt to disenfranchise Trump along with another 10 states that either have or were in the process of doing so, what’s your remedy?  Remember, Trump has more cases hanging over his head.  Review the following issues that, like most things, are unique to Trump in American jurisprudence: 1. The concept and application of lawfare 2. Multi-jurisdiction coordination 3. Bolsterism 4. The convoluted idea of Democratic voter suppression..... 

 Radical Illinois Judge Kicks President Trump Off the State’s Ballot Cullen Linebarger -  Feb. 28, 2024 - A corrupt Cook County judge has ordered the Illinois Board of Elections to remove Donald Trump from ballots statewide for the March 19 primary. As ABC 7 News Chicago reports, Democrat Judge Tracie Porter stripped Trump from the Illinois ballot one month after the Illinois State Board of Elections dismissed the anti-Trump challenge in a unanimous and bipartisan vote. Porter claimed Trump violated the 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause as her excuse for removing him from the ballot. We all know Trump did not commit insurrection or any other federal crime.......

 Trump Lawyer Says Dismissal of 6 Counts in Georgia Case Exposes Prosecutorial ‘Sloppiness’ -Attorney Alina Habba said on Wednesday that a judge’s dismissal of six counts in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election case shows the “sloppiness” of local prosecutors. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six of the 41 counts in an indictment against President Trump and his codefendants on Wednesday. Three of the quashed charges apply to President Trump, throwing out counts related to a phone call he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the aftermath of the 2020 election......

Trump Attorney Says Documents Charges ‘Must Be Struck and Dismissed,’ - U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on March 14 heard arguments on two of former President Donald Trump’s several motions to dismiss a case alleging he mishandled classified documents, rejecting one motion by order roughly two hours after court adjourned. “Defendant’s motion is denied without prejudice,” the judge wrote regarding the motion to dismiss based on unconstitutional vagueness. Defense attorneys had argued for dismissal of 32 counts regarding mishandling classified documents under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and for “unconstitutional vagueness.” However, during the hearing, Judge Cannon seemed unconvinced that those arguments weren’t better suited to the trial stage of the case. These were only two of several motions to dismiss filed by the defense.

Chief Justice John Roberts decides to keep Peter Navarro in jail -  March 19, 2024 By Victoria White Berger - As most know, Peter Navarro just asked the Supreme Court to allow him to stay out of prison while his sentence is under appeal. Chief Justice Roberts denied the request: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navarro had filed an emergency appeal to stay free while he appeals his conviction........

 

The Pandora’s box of punishing Trump - March 19, 2024 By Quentin Quill -As former president Donald Trump battles a $464-million bond requirement from New York’s attorney general amid appealing the state’s $355-million punitive damages award, alarming constitutional questions lurk.  These questions relate to the potential premature seizure of Trump’s property and the excessive nature of the gargantuan financial punishments themselves.......

 

Elise Stefanik Demands Letitia James Disbarment for ‘Lawfare Campaign’ Against Donald Trump -  Wendell Husebø 13 Feb 2024 -  Republican House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (NY) on Tuesday issued a 64-page letter to the New York Committee on Professional Standards demanding the disbarment of New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly violating “principles of fairness and impartiality” by engaging in “relentless lawfare” on social media against former President Donald Trump. If James is disbarred, it would substantially increase Trump’s chances of defeating James’ prosecution. James seeks to essentially bankrupt Trump by calling for a $370 million fine and a lifetime of earnings from the real estate industry in New York State. James claims Trump committed financial fraud. Stefanik said in a statement obtained by Breitbart News:..........

 

 The Republican establishment begins to understand that lawfare endangers them, too - February 26, 2024 By Andrea Widburg - One of the things that’s been vexing for many conservatives is how passive the Republican National Committee has been when it comes to the lawfare being waged against Donald Trump. Don’t they understand that Trump is the trial balloon and that, if the lawfare against him is successful, it’ll be used against all Republicans? However, an opinion piece at the Wall Street Journal that Jeb Bush co-authored suggests that, finally, the GOP is becoming aware of the global threat of lawfare.

 

Jeb Bush Speaks Out – Warns that the Government’s Weaponization against Donald Trump and Elon Musk Poses a Grave Threat to Business in America - Jim Hoft Feb. 26, 2024 - It’s about time. After 91 bogus lawfare indictments and over $600 million in penalties against Donald Trump, a few honest businessmen and political leaders are finally speaking out. The former Florida governor along with Joe Lonsdale, the co-founder of Palantir, published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal this weekend condemning the politicized, activist courts that are targeting conservative leaders for political gain. This does not happen in America............

 

Why is no one wondering why the Trump trials have such idiotic jurors?  January 28, 2024 By Patricia McCarthy - “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”   --Montesquieu Those of us old enough to remember the infamous trial of O.J. Simpson will certainly remember the daily presence in the court of Jo-Ellen Demetrius, the jury consultant who determined which people among the jury pool would be likely to decide in Simpson’s favor.   Few of us had heard of jury consultants then, but they’ve certainly been around since the Simpson trial.   A jury consultant’s job is to research, as closely as possible, each prospective juror by any means necessary so that the defense can select the persons who may be most disposed to find their client not guilty.    Of course, prosecutors hire jury consultants as well t.......How can this be legal, one might ask.  It probably should not be, but one thing is clear:  Juries are rarely a “jury of one’s peers” anymore.  They are carefully and deceptively chosen.  We can be certain that jury consultants were hired to select the people who would sit in judgment of President Trump for each of the numerous trials to which he has been so unfairly subjected......

 

Judge McAfee Ruling Is The Latest Blow to Public Trust in Government - March 20, 2024 By Greg Salsbury -Pew tells us that in seven decades of polling, public trust in our federal government has reached a new low, with only 16 percent expressing belief that they will “do what is right.” This number compares to nearly three-quarters of Americans who expressed such trust in 1958 when the National Election Study began asking the question. Trust had reached a three-decade high following 9/11, but the last decade has taken a sharp toll on governmental credibility. Why?  Quite simply, of late, the unbelievability of the government’s positions and actions has escalated significantly:.....Last week, Judge McAfee’s ruling in the Georgia racketeering against President Trump and associates contributed to the lawfare farce. The District Attorney, Fani Willis, hired and paid her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, some $650k for his services as lead prosecutor despite his complete lack of experience with much beyond traffic cases. Wade used that money to purchase expensive dinners, hotels, and exotic vacations for both of them. Willis claims she repaid him in cash despite the absence of a receipt or notation for any of it........