Retaliation is inviting but unnecessary
The Friday Letter / No. 534 / Mar 31, 2023
Sixth Sunday of Lent / Updated at 10:10 a.m. ET to correct a grammatical error
In a piece at Just the News last week, Ben Whedon quotes legal experts who are concerned that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's long-awaited indictment of President Trump will ignite a string of retaliatory prosecutions by Republicans.
Bragg is a George Soros prosecutor who campaigned on the promise to indict Trump.
“My concern is that this could trigger a type of tit-for-tat response where Republican prosecutors seek to weaponize criminal charges against Democrats,” George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said. “We cannot afford a race to the bottom in political prosecutions.”
Well spoken. But Republicans, if they can flush the Senate of its double agents and get new leadership, can start the healing by rejecting communist judicial nominees such as SCOTUS Justice Brown Jackson. First, do no harm. Second, return our country to the rule of law.
Rule of law prosecutors don't need to follow this new custom of using the criminal justice system to punish the rulers' political opponents. All they must do is follow the law. As we noted last week with our list of prominent unindicted statists who have committed real crimes, the pond is teeming with candidates for prosecution under the actual, not fantasized, constitutional rule of law.
Retaliation isn't necessary or desirable. Equal protection under the law, as guaranteed by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, should prevail. As the children who attend Stanford Law School recently showed when they shouted down a federal appeals court judge because his words offended their delicate ears, it's questionable today whether law schools even teach constitutional law.
One must wonder if these children are even capable of understanding how our legal system is supposed to work. In normal times, investigators discover a crime and then look for the criminal. Prosecutors in George Soros' world identify a threatening enemy and then manufacture a crime.
Anyone in the lunch bucket brigade, aware of basic fairness, gets this difference.
As the Constitution crumbles
In violation of the separation of powers doctrine of the Constitution, the chief judge of the D.C. Federal District Court, Obama Judge James Boasberg, ordered Mike Pence to testify to a grand jury about his conversations with Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, when Pence, as president of the Senate, oversaw the counting of the presidential electoral votes. Boasberg is known as the judge who temporarily shut down the Dakota Access pipeline.
Jake wants to know
Our Jake Phake, purveyor of Phake News, teams up with another of our stealthy contributors, the Grammar Grump, to look into NPR's decision to ax four of its podcasts, including “Everyone & Their Mom.” They wonder if NPR's appalling ignorance of English grammar was too much even for its snooty audience. We doubt it, as NPR's fellow travelers are leftists at the Modern Language Association who now tell college students that “Jake picked up their mail” is grammatically correct. Double ouch!
Jake shares another observation: In the 1980s, everyone was a financial planner. Today, everyone has a podcast.
To our readers: The Friday Letter is short this week because I am traveling and just don't have the time needed for research and writing.
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