“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake
of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to
chaos.” Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons.
By Rich Kozlovich
One of my favorite movies is a Man For All Seasons, with Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More, a movie I wish was shown more often, and particularly now. A corrupt judge, corrupt prosecution, lying witnesses, and a predetermined verdict with a selected jury, against a man who truly believed in the rule of law. In his discussion about the importance of adhering to the rule of law, More's challenged:
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir
Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned
'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's
laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do
it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would
blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's
sake!”
Let's face it, in no way can Alan Dershowitz be considered a conservative, but it appears he, like Sir Thomas, really believes in the rule of law, and was shocked at what he saw going on in Judge Merchan's court saying he'd 'Never seen such a spectacle'!
Merchan was castigating Costello for rolling his eyes, as the Fox
News host then pointed out "I'm my rolling my eyes just hearing about
what's going on in that courtroom!" Dershowitz then confirmed to Hannity
he's never seen anything like this in the years he's practiced law. Dershowitz
himself rolled his eyes and stared him down, he explained, who had been
sitting in the very front row, "when the judge made some rulings that
were absurd," adding "any first year evidence student would understand that he was making biased rulings in favor of one side."
Justice Merchan has gagged witnesses who were vital to Trump's defense on more than one occasion, including a former FEC commissioner, but allows Bragg's star witness,
Michael Cohen, a convicted serial liar and a admitted thief, who ends up destroying Bragg's case.
A case of made up charges for a made up crimes. That becomes important, since normally it's the job of the prosecution to define the crime committed by the defendant. Since Bragg's case is in shambles, Merchan has transferred that responsibility over to the jury. Imagine that!
Trump......was never told which of the underlying crimes he
supposedly committed in the courtroom, so he was not able to defend
himself from them, which according to some legal observers violates the
equal protection clause. His instructions actually were illegal, based on a recent Supreme
Court case in an opinion written by left-leaning Justice Stephen Breyer
that right-leaning Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas concurred
with, regarding the critical need for unanimity regarding an underlying
crime:
They were in effect told to just find a crime, any crime, make one up if you have to. This is part of the lawfare conspiracy, with the mentality as long as you find him guilty of, something, anything,
it's fine with me.
None of this is normal, or legal! Now under "Merchan's Rule" it will now only
take four jurors to convict Trump in an "unanimous" decision. Four jurors can be a unanimous decision? Where in any law in the land is that valid? Only in Merchan's courtroom, and here's how he will rig this "unanimous" decision.
"Judge Merchan has ruled that the jury does not have to agree on what that crime is. The
jury could split into three groups of four on which of the three crimes
were being concealed and Merchan will still treat it as a unanimous
verdict," George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan
Turley, who has been inside the courtroom, writes. "The jury has been
given little substantive information on these crimes, and Merchan has
denied a legal expert who could have shown that there was no federal
election violation. This case should have been dismissed for lack of
evidence or a cognizable crime."
"You read that right: 4-4-4 is a unanimous verdict. The only thing that’s criminal in this trial is the trial itself."
What if Justice Merchan has been compromised? - Given what we know about what has been going on in Justice Juan
Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom, including the preposterous, over-the-top
bias of this judge for the prosecution and his overt antipathy for the
defendant, Donald Trump, what explains his willing destruction of his
own reputation as a judge?
Each and every legal scholar who has weighed in on the course of the
trial, from Alan Dershowitz to Jonathan Turley and countless others,
(with the exception of those paid by CNN and MSNBC) is gobsmacked by
Merchan’s thoroughly unconstitutional rulings, gag orders, contempt
charges, exclusion of practically every witness with relevant testimony
for the defense, and his allowance of non-relevant witnesses like Stormy
Daniels. He allowed her testimony, too, even though she knew nothing
about the issue being tried, to spew her pornographic filth that could
only come from the mouth of a porn star actress.
At the end of A Man For All Seasons Sir Thomas More asks, Richard Rich, who perjured himself against More, what was the chain of office he was wearing. Judge Cromwell says he's been appointed Attorney General to Wales. More's response?
“For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!”
It will be interesting to see how all this plays out for Merchan in the future, but I betting if Trump is re-elected, he's in big trouble, right along with the rest of the corrupt prosecutors and judges. Make no mistake, this is a RICO case.
As a side bar, what happened to Cromwell? He was "a totally ruthless, unscrupulous, political operator" and became Chancellor rising to great political heights of power, until the King became displeased with him, and had him beheaded on false charges, without trial. The perverter of the rule of law met his doom via the perversion of the rule of law....." in his last personal address to the king..... "Most gracious Prince, I cry for mercy, mercy, mercy."
Sir
Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned
'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's
laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do
it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would
blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's
sake!”
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