Below is my column in The Hill on the collapse of the lawfare campaigns against Trump. The first to go will likely be the two cases by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who became a lame-duck prosecutor at around 2:30 am last Wednesday. We are also waiting for what is likely to be a reduction or even a rejection of the Trump civil case by Attorney General Letitia James. While Democratic prosecutors are likely to continue, if not ramp up, their lawfare efforts, Trump will enter office with a fraction of the existing legal threats that have dogged him for years. For prosecutors, they are left like the ancient mariner:
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Here is the column:
Nearly two years ago, I wrote that Democratic prosecutors’ lawfare campaign against Donald Trump would make the 2024 election the single largest jury decision in history. Now that the verdict is in, the question is whether prosecutors will continue their unrelenting campaign against the president-elect and his companies.
The answer is that it may not matter.
The election reflected a certain gag sensation for a public fed a relentless diet of panic and identity politics for eight years. The 2024 election will come to be viewed as one of the biggest political and cultural shifts in our history. It was the mainstream-media-versus-new media election; the Rogan-versus-Oprah election; the establishment-versus-a-disassociated-electorate election.
It was also a thorough rejection of lawfare. One of the things most frustrating for Trump’s opponents was that every trial or hearing seemed to give Trump a boost in the polls. As cases piled up in Washington, New York, Florida and Georgia, the effort seemed to move more toward political acclamation than isolation.
These cases are now legal versions of the Flying Dutchman — ships destined to sail endlessly but never make port.
If there is a single captain of that hapless crew, it is Special Counsel Jack Smith. For more than a year, Smith sought to secure a verdict in one of his two cases in Washington and Florida before the election. His urgency was seemingly shared by Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, but by few other judges or justices.
Around 2 am, Smith became a lame-duck prosecutor. Trump ran on ending his prosecutions and can cite a political mandate for it. Certainly, had he lost, the other side would be claiming a mandate for these prosecutions.
Trump’s new attorney general could remove Smith and order the termination of his continued prosecution. That is less of a problem in Florida, where a federal judge had already tossed out the prosecution of the classified documents case, which some of us saw as the greatest threat against Trump.
In Washington, Chutkan, who proved both motivated and active in pushing forward the election interference case, could complicate matters. Under federal rules, it is up to Chutkan to order any dismissal.
In the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Judge Emmet Sullivan resisted granting the dismissal sought by the Justice Department — a record that I criticized as both unusual and unwarranted.
Chutkan could run the incoming Trump administration around on any dismissal, but in the end, it should succeed in ending Smith’s ill-considered indictment. In reality, Smith was not only losing the Florida case but was likely to be reversed again in Washington due to his refusal to make sufficient changes in his indictment of Trump after the recent immunity decision by the Supreme Court.
Smith could make one last push to damage Trump in the period before the inauguration by pushing for an immunity decision from Chutkan. He would again likely find a supportive ally in Chutkan.
However, in the end, this would do little to change the fact that the Flying Dutchman will soon be without a crew or port of call.
One of the most immediate cases to resume is the prosecution in Manhattan by District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Many, including commentators like CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig, have denounced that case as legally flawed and obviously politically motivated.
Judge Juan Merchan is scheduled to rule on the immunity issue by Nov. 11 and to hold a possible sentencing on Nov. 26. Merchan has shown a pronounced bias against Trump in the past, and his counsel is likely anticipating a continuation of this pattern.
Merchan could sentence Trump to jail. However, such an abusive sentencing, even a brief one, would likely trigger an expedited appeal and would likely be stayed. Trump cannot pardon himself in a state case, but the case itself is a target-rich environment of arguable legal errors that could collapse on appeal.
Another case in New York is likely to move forward now. There is a pending appeal on the massive civil case against Trump brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. For many, James is the very face of lawfare as a prosecutor who ran on getting Trump on something, anything.
She ultimately secured another openly biased judge in Justice Arthur Engoron, who imposed an absurd, grotesque $455 million in fines and interest against Trump and his corporation. Notably, some of the judges on the appellate panel seemed to agree with that assessment, questioning not just the amount but the very use of this law in a case where there was no victim and no one lost a single dollar due to the fraud alleged.
My assumption is that the opinion is already written, held back only because of the election. It could now be issued and constitute a major change in the case. Whatever is left of that judgment, if anything, would then certainly be appealed.
Then there is the roaring dumpster fire in Georgia. An appellate court there will decide whether District Attorney Fani Willis and her office can continue prosecuting the case. If they are forced off the case, a new prosecutor must review the matter. While some criminal allegations against defendants can be established, the alleged racketeering conspiracy against Trump is legally flawed and likely to fail on appeal.
Trump will also continue to appeal civil cases such as the E. Jean Carroll case, which will linger long past the election.
Trump will not be the only defendant to see substantial changes on January 20, 2025. Trump has pledged to pardon those prosecuted over the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The public elected him despite that pledge and over the opposition of Democrats. That will affect hundreds and may come in the form of a mix of pardons and commutations, depending on the underlying charges.
One lingering question will be whether those who supported this lawfare will be deterred in the future. The thrill-kill politics practiced by figures like James proved costly in this election. Polls showed that many citizens have lost trust in the FBI and now view the criminal law process as being politicized in places like New York.
The next few weeks will determine whether Democratic leaders are ready for a new course in ending the lawfare.
President Biden could pardon Trump. It would be a poison-pill pardon. Trump does not need a pardon as the incoming president, but Biden could take the matter off the table by treating him as presumptively guilty. He could not only claim to have taken the higher ground (even though he ran on and promoted the prosecutions of Trump as legitimate) but use it as cover for pardoning his own son.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) could also move to pardon Trump on the New York charges. Hochul was widely criticized for calling Trump supporters (now the majority of voters in the nation) “un-American.” She could seek to make amends with a pardon.
In the end, Trump read the jury correctly. Once the lawfare was unleashed, he focused on putting his case to the public and walked away with a clear majority decision. It is unlikely that this will end all of his lawfare battles, but it may effectively end the war.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster, 2024).
Even if we want to, we can’t escape the wails of despair from Democrat politicians, Democrat media like ‘The View’, Opra, and ‘Jimmy Kimmel’, etc. And of course, our resident Democrat political liars like Dennis, Gigi, Sammy, etc. All the “Trump’s a !” usual suspect liars.
Trump will weaponize the DoJ and FBI as they did to lay false charges to destroy his political enemies! Trump intends to ban abortions! Trump will rule as a dictator! This was our last election! And so on.
One way of looking at it as every one of these Democrat liars is potentially neutering themselves for the next presidential election. Whoever the next Republican nominee is, once again they will claim the nominee is virtually Hitler, wants to kill gays, intends to ban abortions, etc.
The next campaign will once again be a Democrat campaign of fearmongering liars – not a campaign of alternate government policy.
Their problem at that point (including for our resident political liars like Dennis, Gigi, et al) is that by then, four years later, people will point out they issued those lies in 2024 about Trump in attempts to win votes by fearmongering. And none of the lying accusations they made against Trump proved to be true.
Democrat fearmongering lies here and elsewhere are potential campaign ads for Republicans in the next election, pointing out that these “influencers” are proven liars from the 2024 election campaign. No lie is too outrageous for these people. “Please don’t believe your lying eyes” isn’t going to work in the next election as it didn’t in this election.
The Democrat-Marxist Media Political Propaganda Complex took a really heavy hit with these election results. And the damage will continue as the next four years proves the extent to how they lied with their claims of what Trump would do.
Ditto for Dennis, Gigi and the rest of the Soviet Democrats if they come here in future elections with a new/old set of lies about Republican nominees and politicians for those elections.
Campaigning on fearmongering lies is getting less successful each time they use it.
Just remember the tenacity of a spoiled toddler who has been denied his cookie. This will not end painlessly nor without tantrums. The prog/left has devolved down into a cult of coddled, ignorant, privileged children who see no reason, at this point, to reassess their ideology. Tough times need to break them of their fantasy world and disavow them from their infantile utopian dreams.
I love me some Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and the connections to the Wandering Jew. In law school, I got top paper in one class with my Rime of the Habeas Petitioner, wherein I re-wrote the poem for that subject, and thoroughly annotated it with citations. It was a hoot. I hope to find a copy of it in my storeroom when I clean it out.
But perhaps of more benefit is an analysis of Cotton Mather, who IMHO, egged on the Salem Witch Trials. Among my prized possessions is an old, small, leather-bound edition of Robert Calef’s, More Wonders of the Invisible World. This from Wiki about Calef:
“In an effort to promote the ongoing Salem witchcraft trials, Cotton Mather (CM) wrote, Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-England, in the summer and early fall of 1692,[11] and his father Increase Mather published his own Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits around the same time.
Robert Calef, after exchanging letters with Cotton Mather and many other area ministers, published his book More Wonders of the Invisible World, with his title being a riff on Cotton Mather’s own introduction to his account of M.Rule “yet more Wonders …”[12] Calef objected to proceedings that lead to “a Biggotted Zeal, stirring up a Blind and most Bloody rage, not against Enemies, or Irreligious Proffligate Persons, But (in Judgment of Charity, and to view) against as Vertuous and Religious as any they have left behind them in this Country, which have suffered as Evil doers with the utmost extent of rigour.”[13] Aside from the preface and postscript, Calef begins and ends with Mather’s accounts in his own words. He finished his compilation in 1697, but added a postscript before final publication.”
Of particular interest, is something that Cotton Mather said later. “I live by Neighbours that force me to produce these undeserved lines”.
Here is the cite for that:
Perhaps Cotton’s most self-damning act within the public eye was his publication of the volume The Wonders of the Invisible World, in October, 1692, after the final executions. Although Cotton’s words describe, and to some degree justify the trials and deaths in Salem that year, the book is anything but resolved with regards to Mather’s true feelings about the trials. Although Cotton insists the book is not written in an evil spirit or with any prejudice, he writes of the trials of accused witches such as Bridget Bishop saying there was “little occasion to prove witchcraft, it being evident and notorious to all beholders”. He describes Susanna Martin as, “one of the most impudent, scurrilous, wicked creatures in the world”. And worst of all, he condones the use of the spectral evidence to convict the witches of his five cases outlined! In his own letter to William Stoughton, penned during the trial of George Burroughs, Cotton also asserts the guilt of this man, stating he is the ringleader of 10 other witches, a confession received from five Andover witches that “refreshes his soul”.
Careful analysis of the document, as well as Mather’s own diaries, reveals that he may not have been quite as convinced of the righteousness of the trials as he describes in his book. A cautious foreword to the manuscript reads, “I live by Neighbours that force me to produce these undeserved lines”. Perry Miller describes the whole work as “utter confusion”. Robert Calef, author of More Wonders of the Invisible World, published a very different account than Mather’s that put Cotton on the defensive for the rest of his life. Mather cried libel and threatened to sue, but the issue was never resolved and Cotton was forced to bite his tongue and bear what would become a flood of contemporary scorn for his witch-hunting labors. Near the end of his life, his diary records a hint of regret for the thanklessness of the groups he had spurned in his work. He is baffled by why “everybody points at me, and speaks of me as by far the most afflicted minister in all New England”. Perry Miller describes Cotton’s later years as a time of intense regret and remorse about the trials. He points out that Cotton’s diary paints a picture of a man “panicky lest the Lord take revenge upon his family ‘for [Mather’s] not appearing with Vigor enough to stop the proceedings of the Judges'”. Clearly Cotton could not see his outside of his own world of expectations, reputations, and contradictions. He died on Feb. 13th 1728 at age 66, survived by only one of his three wives and two of his fifteen children.”
https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people/c_mather.html
I hope that Prof. Turley reads this comment, for I believe he could use this material in some future article.
Oh, and for what its worth, if you have access to jstor, you can get this, for more on the Rime’s connection to the Wandering Jew.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4173656
I will see if I can find a free copy of it for you all here. Also, Isaac Asimov wrote:
Written by Isaac Asimov in October 1956, the short story “Does a Bee Care?” features a highly influential character named Kane who is stated to have spawned the legends of the Walking Jew and the Flying Dutchman in his thousands of years maturing on Earth, guiding humanity toward the creation of technology which would allow it to return to its far-distant home in another solar system. The story originally appeared in the June 1957 edition of If: Worlds of Science Fiction magazine and is collected in the anthology Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (Isaac Asimov, Doubleday Science Fiction, 1975).
also:
A Jewish Wanderer appears in A Canticle for Leibowitz, a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr. first published in 1960; some children are heard saying of the old man, “What Jesus raises up STAYS raised up”, and introduces himself in Hebrew as Lazarus, implying that he is Lazarus of Bethany, whom Christ raised from the dead. Another possibility hinted at in the novel is that this character is also Isaac Edward Leibowitz, founder of the (fictional) Albertian Order of St. Leibowitz (and who was martyred for trying to preserve books from burning by a savage mob). The character speaks and writes in Hebrew and English, and wanders around the desert, though he has a tent on a mesa overlooking the abbey founded by Leibowitz, which is the setting for almost all the novel’s action. The character appears again in three subsequent novellas which take place hundreds of years apart, and in Miller’s 1997 follow-up novel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew
* Mass hysteria aka group think does produce physical evidence generally known as psychosomatic illnesses. These groups look for witches, scapegoats , other as a cause?
Interesting as the cause of Nazi Germany witch hunt phenomenon…
Nice artifact. It’s most likely cursed.
Tim Walz’ heartbroken daughter says this country ‘doesn’t deserve Kamala Harris.’
Thank God we don’t. We haven’t been that bad. Four years of mannequinocracy was punishment enough for our sins.
Young,
I got livestock who could lead better than Harris or Biden.
Upstate-
Because they are smarter and more likeable.
And smell better.
Upstate, aside from the cows and chickens, there are pigs, which are treif —and that’s how I feel about Biden and Harris. I have to steer clear of them all.
Tim Walz
I understand he’s updating his CV: I was Vice President of the United States.
The left flails about with the petty juries from the New York State. There arms are flung asunder with grievances of hate. Their teeth are set a gnashing as the voters close the gate. Their eyes are filled with moisture to see wokeism meets its fate. Now we a come rejoicing to to see it end before it was to late.
TiT,
Good one! Reading about their bitter tears brings a smile to my face!
Professor Turley, as a lawyer and an an opera chorus singer as an avocation, loved your article! I saw you give a talk on free speech as a natural right when you came to Anchorage and was highly impressed. Keep it up and ignore the haters!
Professor Turley,
Hard left Democrats/Progressives are incapable of sober self-reflection. It is always the “uneducated” or “simpleton” voting public that “just doesn’t understand.”
They are the living embodiment of the Principal Skinner meme: https://images.app.goo.gl/z3ZSDSGtrQK1vTdD7
The late-night left-wing “comedy” hosts – who are notoriously unfunny and rarely even try to tell a joke anymore – went on TV and lectured the American people about how they voted against their interests. They clearly lack any understanding or capacity for sober reflection.
oldmanfromkansas says:
The late-night left-wing “comedy” hosts – who are notoriously unfunny and rarely even try to tell a joke anymore – went on TV and lectured the American people about how they voted against their interests.
Old Man… it is straight out of the Excuses section of the Marx and Engels playbook.
To explain away the members of the working class who rejected their communist theology and refused to support them, Marx and Engels said that the members of the proletariat that opposed them were “deluded victims who fell prey to their false consciousness”.
No surprise that today’s communists, the “progressives, socialists, democratic socialists”, etc would offer pretty much the same excuse for their losses.
I wonder if they think insulting over half of American voters as stupid, misogynist, racist, Nazi, etc is supposed to win them over to The Cause.
I think it’s more about attempting to shore up their self respect.
Agreed.
Message to Hillary: You may continue to deplore in ’24 🙂
Less than one week after we saw DEMOCRAT Senators Casey, Baldwin and Brown using their supposed support Trump in their pathetic commercials as they saw the winds of change approaching we now have fools like Govs Murphy, Hochul and Healy saying they are going to fight Trump all the way. The left never learns, they never compromise and they never try to appeal to moderation.
As for corrupt legal parties like James, Bragg, Engoron, Merchan and Chutkin we need an aggressive AG and DOJ that will start treating them as they treat conservatives. Want to put pro-life people in prison, well it is time to put antifa goons, leftists hamas protestors and rabid pro-choice people in jail whenever they break the law.
Murphy is using violent rhetoric, vowing to “fight to the death” if he detects even the whiff of a potential possible policy difference with Trump. I’m sure the good working people of New Jersey, which Trump came close to carrying, appreciate that use of their tax dollars.
Murphy (aka “Bucky Beaver”;-) is a lame duck who is done after 2024, so all of that rhetoric is meaningless posturing. Even better, it will probably hurt whoever the Dems next nominate for his position. They currently have no obvious consensus candidate. Murphy is a completely narcissist control freak who wouldn’t voluntarily share the spotlight if his life depended on it. His first Lt. Gov., Sheila Oliver, was completely marginalized, and she died in office. Her replacement, Tahesha Way, whose most relevant political experience was as a county freeholder, is nearly a total unknown in NJ. It’s been a while since NJ had a Republican governor, and he was a RINO, but the winds of change seem to be in the air.
I was there when Governor Florio raised taxes and passed a law banning runny eggs. That didn’t work out so well for him. I hope Governor Murphy tries to ban runny eggs sometime in 2025.
HullBobby,
Ah, yes. Once again the leftists resistance to Trump. What does that look like? More sanctuary cities, sucking up millions of dollars that should be going to American citizens? More illegal drugs on our streets killing people? More human trafficking? More men in women’s sports? Yes. That is what the resistance looks like.
Professor Turley,
What a superb and concise summary of the lawfare cases and their likely fates.
This has been a disgraceful period in the history of American law and a deep stain on the reputation of our legal system and on the reputations of its most determined actors, prosecutors and judges, politicians and media. It should never happen again.
It is an enormous chore to write a book but I hope you consider writing about the disgrace of lawfare and that that book becomes the core of a required course in every law school.
Res ipsa loquitur, and some of the public comments with each or your articles, has become one of the important sources many of us turn to now that we have abandoned MSM nonsense. Thank you for your determined fight for free speech, civil decency and the truth.
“.. we were kings and kindred fools …
and those who wait forever for ships that don’t come in…”
Do angels have reproductive organs?
No, they are creations neither marrying nor given in marriage.
Unless they want to have them of course.
I think you may be right, but the mystery, to me, is how the 200 rebellious angels that came to Earth managed to mate with human women, thus producing the Nephilim.
Turls: love your attempts to Spike the football as usual but the truth is you’re too gottdamned white to make it anything other than something that doesn’t resemble a seizure.
Granted I agree that Trump has won himself into a place of immunity…, ‘when you’re rich they let you do it’ after all. But these cases won’t be dismissed on merit. This is entirely the politics of a system solidly cruising into monarchy. Wildly corrupt monarchy….
And you, like your forbearer Roy Cohn, have been hauling the weight to make it happen. Roy lost in the end because he wasn’t able to realign the system the way he needed to survive. You, on the other hand, just may have won….
Of course Merchan should sentence trump to jail time. The conviction warrants it. The evidence warrants it. The legal precedent for such convictions warrants it. Only trump’s monarchic political status gives him an escape card, which he’ll undoubtedly use to pull himself out of it…
Thing is, Merchan should go through with the sentencing of an American citizen who committed, and was convicted of a crime. Most importantly, the dregs that have been aiding in the overthrow of established legal precedent, people such as yourself, should be made to proclaim publicly that ‘when you’re rich they let ya do it’….
Will this happen? Most certainly not. Slime like you will be able to slither down your escape hole without having to proclaim your true intent….
But the effort to uphold principle has to be made or we should all just pack it in.
Now watch the magats howl.
Legal precedent? There is no legal president for that case.
There is much precedence for fraud convictions. People even go to jail for them.. lol
He was never convicted of fraud. He was convicted of falsifying business records over the classification of a perfectly legal NDA agreement as a “legal expense”. Since it was an eight years old case, it would have been a SOL’d misdemeanor, but when piggybacked onto a never charged campaign finance violation (never done before) it reemerged as an E level felony (on a scale of A-E). There are so many problems with this case it boggles the mind. It’s not even clear if he even guilty of the underlying misdemeanor.
Dont bore the Lawn Boy with facts.
Jonathan: For 4 years you have depicted DJT as the victim of Democratic “lawfare”, the use of the legal system to go after political enemies. Whether it is civil or criminal, federal or state prosecutions, you have defended DJT in every case against him. For you it has never been about legal analysis but politics that has driven your views.
And for 4 years I have argued that political motives did not animate Jack Smith when he brought his two cases against DJT. He would have prosecuted even a Democratic president who violated the Constitution. On Jan. 6, 2021 DJT led a violent insurrection to overturn a legitimate election to stay in power. That was a violation of the Constitution and the laws of the land. In the Mar-a-Lago docs case DJT took national security documents to which he was not entitled under the law. And then he hid the docs in violation of court orders–resulting in the obstruction charge. I have yet to find a legal scholar that has provided any legal justification for DJT’s actions in both those cases.
That said, what does DJT have planned for the next 4 years? It’s no secret. DJT has promised to go after his political “enemies”–people like Jack Smith and Adam Schiff–even Nancy Pelosi. He says he will even go after some in the media. Kash Patel, who DJT is considering for either the head of the FBI or AG has said: “We’re going to come after people in the media”. It’s all there in Project 2025. For DJT it’s all about vengeance and retribution–and LAWFARE in capital letters!
It’s strange you claim the Biden administration engaged in “lawfare” against DJT but somehow what No. 47 has planned is a different animal. What DJT has planned is an autocracy where political opponents will be prosecuted and put in prison. That’s not only “lawfare” by definition but FASCISM!
“what No. 47 has planned.”
You are either stupid or a liar or both.
The guy a bonkers. As they say, there’s no fixing stupid.
Jonathan: For 4 years you have depicted DJT as the victim of Democratic “lawfare”, the use of the legal system to go after political enemies.
Dennis, for those 4 years you have been a leeching parasite using Professor Turley’s blog as though it were your own, starting every one of your Dennis Drops A Deuce with the pretension that you are so close to Professor Turley that he allows you to address him by his first name.
Here’s a thought for you Dennis as you continue attempting to lie your way to relevancy: if you hate Donald Trump so much, there is a way to eliminate facing politicians like Donald Trump in the future.
If you don’t like Trump, don’t nominate and elect lying police state fascists like Obama into office who hate America. Americans tire of a grifting president telling them they’re systemically racist.
If you don’t like Trump, don’t nominate and try to elect corrupt, power hungry people like Clinton. Americans in general despised her from her greedy scandals as First Lady, Senator, and SecState.
If you don’t like Trump, don’t nominate and elect lying, corrupt treasonous police state fascists like Joe Biden.
Keep doing that and Americans will keep choosing Republicans who tell them they will defend them from the depredations and contempt of the Democrats.
And another thought Dennis: if you don’t like Trump, you, your politicians, and your surrogates should probably stop insulting half the country with your blatant lies. Because as you continue claiming “he’s Hitler!” your telling every one of those Americans that you’re claiming they’re Nazis following Hitler.
Try doing human better, Baghdad Bob McIntyre.
Mc hates Trump… move to Canada.
“It’s strange you claim the Biden administration engaged in “lawfare” against DJT but somehow what No. 47 has planned is a different animal. ”
Dennis McInliar translated: “We are terrified that Trump will use his Attorney General and Justice Department to finally do to us what we’ve been doing to him for over 8 years”
But you’re lying again with that election campaign lie. And unfortunately, just as with Clinton after 2016, he won’t.
I couldn’t get through your whole rant, but the DOJ refused to prosecute Joe Biden even after suggesting that he was guilty.
“Further maneuvering on these cases in the weeks ahead would serve no legitimate purpose and only distract the country and the incoming administration from the task at hand,” Barr said. “The public interest now demands that the country unite and focus on the challenges we face at home and abroad. Attorney General Garland and all the state prosecutors should do the right thing and help the country move forward by dismissing the cases.”
“They did that with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country, and I think Attorney General Garland and the state prosecutors should respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now,”
— Bil Barr.
Sounds like Barr might be fishing for another appointment. Let’s hope Trump doesn’t fall for it.
I think they should all be prosecuted until bankrupt.
Letitia James, Arthur Engoron, and Tanya Chutkin have clearly shown that they are rabidly political and will continue their lawfare efforts until their last breath.
“Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.”
Indeed, Jonathan, a felony conviction is like an “albatross around the neck.”
Indeed, Jonathan, a felony conviction is like an “albatross around the neck.”
Indeed Dennis, what does it look like when a Special Counsel has a previous election campaign persecution of a political threat to a sitting Democrat president have his case and convictions thrown out by SCOTUS in a rare unanimous ruling? A ruling where the decision said the prosecutor changed existing laws and added new parts of law for his investigation and ultimately his convictions.
Is it an albatross hanging around the neck of any Democrat claiming that Jack Smith’s record serving Biden during the 2012 election campaign has no bearing on whether he should be trusted by Americans to be an impartial, unbiased prosecutor with an unblemished record and no ties to Biden who is now president?
Whatever, when those corrupt police state fascist convictions obtained by that corrupt prosecutor later get thrown out and the “felon” is exonerated by an appeals court, police state fascists know that neither they nor their Lavarentiy Beria style prosecutors will pay a price.
Indeed, they are gloating when their victims, like Jack Smith’s previous target Governor Bob McDonnell are acquitted – but still left asking “Where do I go to get my good name and my career back”
Dennis and other police state fascists still look at the entire process as a victory. And a tactic well worth repeating in the future.
* Trump admin has 27 republican governors to move the economy forward and Constitutional laws forward. 23 dem governors will obstruct. Accentuate the positive…
The DOJ will have much work to do. Restructuring Homeland Security, CIA and FBI will be a job for the best Senators to move forward. All a daunting task with 300 million acres of fallow farmland the Dept. Of Ag is paramount in self sufficiency.
Best wishes –> no time for the doldrums.
Interesting how suddenly these prosecutors and judges just may have found themselves not only on the wrong side of the law, but on the wrong side of history.
As with Judge Emmitt Sullivan, Judge Chutkan and Judge Mechan both will not adhere to any semblance of ethics or Law that apply. The derangement with what these “unbiased” arbitrator(s) of fact have shown is amazing and bizarre. The only answer to these clear abuses of Judicial power is removal by impeachment.
Something far more severe than impeachment is in order for those who seek to destroy what is left of our liberty.
-John Underwood
Tyler, TX