Talk of the courts, including that Highest one, not saving us from the forces of lawlessness and disruption is akin to looking at the issue with only one eye. The more important discussion to have is how they stand to be weaponized to pursue, prosecute, and persecute individuals and organizations deemed hostile to the new order and its a…
Talk of the courts, including that Highest one, not saving us from the forces of lawlessness and disruption is akin to looking at the issue with only one eye. The more important discussion to have is how they stand to be weaponized to pursue, prosecute, and persecute individuals and organizations deemed hostile to the new order and its agenda. It is bad enough that they will not help us. It is much worse that they will be poised to do harm, willingly, as a small minority of individuals with largely unaccountable power over the vast majority of everyone else.
Let's have this discussion, out loud, and with specifics. As this issue is shaping up, I venture to speculate that most of us no longer will be alive when the time finally comes that their influence finally has waned and been vanquished. There may be decades of darkness to come.
I thought it was settled that due process applies to people - with or without documents. Sure the Suorrme court may choose to shred the Constitution but isn’t there some chance that a District Court could stay this law - if Democrats dare to let it pass (despicably) - and an appellate court could uphold the stay?
Once we put due process in the toilet, nobody is safe, not even loyalists if they’re denounced to the right buddies of the self-proclaimed dictator .
“Innocent until PROVEN guilty” is in the bedrock of democracy.
I'm no expert on the legal system, but it seems to me that if you stack the courts with enough friendly judges, it is only a matter of time until they create an infrastructure that essentially insulates themselves, their peers, and their cronies from accountability, as long as there are those at a higher level who have their backs. The whole thing reeks of opportunism rather than judicial merit, as long as human nature holds true that people go where the money and influence flow.
Agree. This sentencing happened under the Biden Administration. Given SCOTUS leanings, color me pleasantly surprised.
In all honesty, my first thought was whether or not trump would have Judge Merchan harmed.
Is that an extreme thought? Given his lauding of murderous autocrats and endless rhetoric of retribution, is this really outside the realm of possibility? I think not.
Talk of the courts, including that Highest one, not saving us from the forces of lawlessness and disruption is akin to looking at the issue with only one eye. The more important discussion to have is how they stand to be weaponized to pursue, prosecute, and persecute individuals and organizations deemed hostile to the new order and its agenda. It is bad enough that they will not help us. It is much worse that they will be poised to do harm, willingly, as a small minority of individuals with largely unaccountable power over the vast majority of everyone else.
Let's have this discussion, out loud, and with specifics. As this issue is shaping up, I venture to speculate that most of us no longer will be alive when the time finally comes that their influence finally has waned and been vanquished. There may be decades of darkness to come.
I thought it was settled that due process applies to people - with or without documents. Sure the Suorrme court may choose to shred the Constitution but isn’t there some chance that a District Court could stay this law - if Democrats dare to let it pass (despicably) - and an appellate court could uphold the stay?
Once we put due process in the toilet, nobody is safe, not even loyalists if they’re denounced to the right buddies of the self-proclaimed dictator .
“Innocent until PROVEN guilty” is in the bedrock of democracy.
I suppose there is an illusion of due process unless your a minority or poor.
I'm no expert on the legal system, but it seems to me that if you stack the courts with enough friendly judges, it is only a matter of time until they create an infrastructure that essentially insulates themselves, their peers, and their cronies from accountability, as long as there are those at a higher level who have their backs. The whole thing reeks of opportunism rather than judicial merit, as long as human nature holds true that people go where the money and influence flow.
I think your last sentence sums up the Trump ethos.
Exactly!!!
Agree. This sentencing happened under the Biden Administration. Given SCOTUS leanings, color me pleasantly surprised.
In all honesty, my first thought was whether or not trump would have Judge Merchan harmed.
Is that an extreme thought? Given his lauding of murderous autocrats and endless rhetoric of retribution, is this really outside the realm of possibility? I think not.