Many of us have expressed alarm at the politicization of the criminal justice system in New York by figures such as Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. It now appears that New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin is angling to get into the lawfare frenzy.
The conviction of Trump on 34 felonies has either thrilled or repelled citizens. For many of us, it is a sign of the degradation of our legal system. Even the chief CNN legal analyst has acknowledged that Bragg contorted the law to bring the recent case against former President Donald Trump in an unprecedented prosecution.
Yet, the use of the legal system for political purposes is clearly popular in New York where people were literally dancing in the street outside of the courthouse after the recent verdict against Trump. Now Platkin’s office has announced that it is “reviewing” whether to pull the liquor licenses for Trump golf clubs since he is now convicted of felonies in New York. It appears that lawfare is nothing if not intoxicating for Democratic politicians.
According to an article in the Hill, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control is “reviewing the impact of President Trump’s conviction” on his liquor licenses for the Trump National Golf Club in Colts Neck, Lamington Farm Club, and Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia in Pine Hill.
The latest effort is based on a vague standard governing crimes of “moral turpitude” under New Jersey law:
No license of any class shall be issued to any person under the age of 18 years or to any person who has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude. A beneficiary of a trust who is not otherwise disqualified to hold an interest in a license may qualify regardless of age so long as the trustee of the trust qualifies and the trustee shall hold the beneficiary’s interest in trust until the beneficiary is at least the age of majority.
A “crime of moral turpitude” is a familiar, though dated, standard in American law. I teach the standard in torts as one of the traditional “per se” categories for slander under the common law. It was generally used to denote conduct of immorality or serious offenses to norms of society. New Jersey defines it as including “any offense that carries the possibility of one year in jail and involves acts of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellowmen, or to society in general.
Even the New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Control handbook notes that in “some instances, it may be unclear whether a conviction involves an element of moral turpitude.” Yet, Trump has a way to bringing clarity for his critics whenever they must chose between politics and principle.
For most of us, it is hard to see how falsifying business records would constitute “acts of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellowmen, or to society in general.” However, for Democrats, it seems that any act by Trump is by definition base, vile, and depraved.
The piling on of investigations and charges by Democratic officials has reinforced Trump’s long narrative of a weaponization of the legal system against him and his supporters. Polling shows that most citizens view some of these cases as political prosecutions and that they are having diminishing impact on voter preferences. Yet, they remain thrilling for Democratic voters who lionize prosecutors who come up with novel or unprecedented avenues to hammer Trump or hit his businesses. It does not seem to matter that removing the liquor licenses of these clubs can endanger thousands of jobs of citizens or chill other businesses in considering investments in New York or New Jersey.
In the end, the effort is hardly surprising. Lawfare is like binge drinking: the excess is the very measure of its success.
A 103 year old vet at the Normandy gathering, was overheard asking Biden if he would like to sit in his wheelchair.
“If DOJ was giving Hunter the GOP treatment, they would:
Charge Hunter with 50 felonies related to corrupt foreign influence peddling.
Tell him his only way out of life in prison is to testify against the BIG GUY.
Instead, DOJ is running a Joe Biden election protection racket.” @StephenM
Recall just how swiftly “justice” moved when the corrupt Mueller investigation prosecuted, tried and put Paul Manafort in prison – in a matter of weeks!! – for just one little FARA violation.
Hunter Biden is not being prosecuted for his obvious FARA violations. Or anything else, but a lil biddy gun crime.
DOJ CORRUPTION!
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These states and cities attacking Trump with Lawfare and now regulations against his business is just opening themselves up to retaliation when Trump gets in office. It will not be good for the people that did this at all levels and the people that support them.
I must wonder … what did the DNC or some big-time D donors pledge to NJ D Platkin to get on the Trump Derangement Syndrome bandwagon – joining the NY attorney general, Fanny, Big-Bragg and that non-confirmed federal prosecutor named Smith.
How can anyone have anything but contempt for our in-“justice” system today. All attorneys and judges should be shouting from the rooftops about these prosecutions; any who are not cannot be taken seriously.
wondering why the license would be issues specifically to donald trump ?
Because it is Trump. Only factor.
That’s the right question. The license will almost certainly be in the name of some LLC. Of course, headline-seeking AGs would never look into that first because they might not get the headlines they’re seeking.
We don’t know that it was. But if it was, it’s because he is the owner of the club. This is not rocket science.
I find it deliciously ironic that Biden signed for stronger punishment for people lying on this form and unlawful possession.
I’m sure any minute now all the Repos will come out and decry the guilty verdict of Hunter Biden. Any minute now, It’s coming, This Law fare has to stop, I can hear them shuffling papers now….I’m waiting.
Not me. I want the SOB to hang.
Jonathan: Yes, there is a distinct possibility DJT could lose his liquor licenses for his 3 golf clubs in New Jersey. But you bizarrely claim that “A ‘crime of moral turpitude’ is a familiar, though dated, standard in American law”. No it is not.
US and state criminal codes list at least 27 offenses involving “moral turpitude”. DJT’s 34-count convictions in NY might well qualify. What the NJ ABC is doing is not “lawfare” nor the “weaponization of the legal system”. It’s what states do all the time when a “convicted felon” holds a liquor license.
Now if DJT loses his liquor licenses that is going to really hit him big time in his pocketbook. Everyone knows that golf clubs make a ton of money at the “19th Hole”. It’s a huge revenue generator. If DJT cares about anything he cares most about money!
If all he cares about is money, he could have signed up to be a DNC/Media Matters trolls. They pay well, don’t they?
..another goofball reply from resident Troll ‘Dennis McIntyre…’ who as always misses the broader points & to underline his disrespect for anything Prof. Turley says, insists on addressing Prof. Turley by his first name… yawn………..
Right, he cares so much about money that he doubled his presidential salary and made millions from his businesses while in office. Although, I may have that a little wrong.
he did not take salary as pres
Well, it didn’t go where Trump said it went, so where is it?
You tell us, fishfvck, where did it go?
You know everything, why are you asking that?
He did not. He donated his salary while in office.
The utter stupidity and viciousness of truly deranged leftist people like you, Dennis is really something to behold.
The insatiable GREED and lust for money by selling out your own country being done by Joe Biden and every member of his disgusting degenerate Crime Family is something to behold.
Fortunately, two-thirds of the people of this country are not stupid propagandized fools like you Dennis.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” MLK. And you fit that bill.
No, Fishstick. You fit that bill. And you display it with each of your comments.
Thank you. Keep up the good work.
Fishy: Nothing in the world says “decency” like a Biden, any Biden, pick a Biden. You will find a lot of scummy degenerate things, but ‘decency’ is not one of them.
DECENCY is on the ballot.
Vote Trump.
Turley would love if you all just forget that being a convicted felon such is Trump, there is a price that comes with it. Then again, Turley’s view that Trump is above the law still stands with today’s post.
Fishstick, now you can read the good professor’s mind? That is the incredible thing about you leftists. You keep coming here and tell us what people are thinking. A truly amazing superpower you have.
Where does the good professor’s column prove he sees Trump is above the law. The good professor is questioning the legality of NJ investigation.
When lawyers can’t prove innocents, attack the law. Which is Turley’s MO on Trump. Maybe you can show me a post by Turley that he writes Trump is legally responsible for anything he has been charged with. Not impeachment or sexual assault, or fake business and tax documents, stealing classified docs?
Booooo hoooo
Oh, no! The good professor will not write about what you want him to write about! Can you stomp you little foot some more?
And the good professor has written about those topics you mention. But he applies the rule of law, the Constitution to them when he does comment on them.
But you cannot have that.
Our host has repeatedly said he believes the documents case has teeth. How tf did you miss that?
Turley says that about just about anything to please who he is addressing. Turley defends Trump in the end of any scandalous behavior from Trump.
Fishstick, the good professor does not have to please anyone. He uses his lawyer training and experience to point out the rule of law and the Constitution.
You are merely projecting with no evidence to support your accusation.
Here is what the rest of the World understands: The Biden Crime Family is a national disgrace: Drugs, Extortion, Money Laundering, Sex Trafficking, Sexual Deviants, Illegal Guns, and Tax Cheats.
Decency is on the ballot.
The People are Voting FOR Trump.
“🚨 NEW STUDY: After weeks of nasty, marathon coverage of Trump’s trial, the leftist media were overly sympathetic and gentle in their coverage of Hunter Biden’s trial.
The media loves to protect the Biden crime family, especially during an election year.” @newsbusters
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2024/06/11/study-kinder-gentler-coverage-hunter-bidens-criminal-trial?twclid=2-3hccwqsihd9mav5mdar2uogr1
Did Fishy say ‘scandalous behavior’?
“@MarcoPolo501c3 released a 640-page Report on the Biden Laptop with 2,020 citations that documents 459 crimes committed by the Biden family and their business associates.
•140 business crimes
•191 sex crimes
•128 drug crimes
The FARA violations lead straight to Joe Biden.”
Joe Biden has always been a corrupt politician. For as long as he has held public office, Biden has been corrupt. Now the world sees how global Biden’s ‘scandalous’ corruption actually is:
“Subpoenaed bank records reveal Biden family (Hunter/Jim/Sara/Hallie/Biden grandchild) hauled in $18 mil+ from foreign sources since Biden VP, incl:
–$3.99m from Ukraine
–$7.28m from China
–$3.5m from Russia
–$1.04m Romania
–$1.04m Panama
–$1.17m Kazakhstan/Mexico/Syria”
@paulsperry
H.G. Wells in caricaturing Henry James wrote in ‘Boon’:
“It is leviathan retrieving pebbles. It is a magnificent but painful hippopotamus resolved at any cost, even at the cost of its dignity, upon picking up a pea which has got into a corner of its den. Most things, it insists, are beyond it, but it can, at any rate modestly, and with an artistic singleness of mind, pick up that pea.”
This is symbolic of the Democratic Party of late, digging up any and all possible avenues to dirty a political foe by innuendo.
I quote Wells one more time: “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo”; ‘The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman”.
BIDEN GUILTY OF THREE FELONIES!!!
BIDEN GUILTY OF THREE FELONIES!!!
BIDEN GUILTY OF THREE FELONIES!!!
HUNTER BIDEN GUILTY
Yet another egregious example of the weaponization of the Biden Justice Department, and the two-tiered system of justice.
Jim Jordan and James Comer need to get on this NOW, and demand answers !!!!!!
Two charges carry a maximum of 10 years while one carries a maximum fine of $250,000.
However he stands a good chance of having his conviction overturned on appeal. There is still the problem of the question on the form being constitutional according to Bruen and the 5th circuit.
If it’s unconstitutional to prohibit a drug addict to posses a weapon he cannot be charged for lying on the form as the theory goes.
Because the question was not before the jury it stands to reason that it will be before an appeals court. We’ll just have to see how/if Turley sees an appeal being successful.
His conviction will not be set aside. But he can go on to a normal life when his father and uncle are no longer pushing him to put the screws on foreigners.
When the wrong people move into the neighborhood, or in this case our once mowed and edged spiffy chat site, like any other invasion of lowlifes you are faced with admitting what you always knew: some people are born to be lowlifes, wrecking everything simply because they can.
If Turley doesn’t get a mod, it is all over.
Nobody said freedom of speech is always going to be neat and tidy and civil. The constitution says nothing about it. Anything less would be censorship according to Turley.
Turley simply licenses his name to this site, in the same way Trump just licenses his name to properties that he doesn’t own.
This site is run by Rupert Murdoch’s minions at Fox and the NY Post. Its sole purpose is to keep the MAGA mob riled up.
Turley just collects a fat check every month from Murdoch.
Hunter Biden found guilty on all charges.
Bummer.
Hang a few of these lunatic lawfare participants and I bet it would stem the stupidity….
“These people are sick”- Donald J Trump