by Kurt Schlichter‘
The lawfare has been going on for a while, but we are now starting to see some reality slap these hacks in the face. More slapping is coming. Welcome to the world of real law practice, resisters.
Understand that Twitter lawyers and MSNBC lawyers are all terrible. I mean, they are awful. Professionals laugh at them. They count on their titles and resumes to insulate them, and some of them are impressive – Laurence Tribe, for example, was a liberal but somewhat respected Harvard professor. Now, he shouts nonsense at passersby on Twitter all day. These people operate not in court but in their bizarro world, where insane legal theories get taken seriously.
You need to understand that the idiocy we see swirling around the attempts to frame and bankrupt Trump has zero to do with the kind of law normal lawyers practice every day. Except for political cases, where the normal rules often fail to apply – and when they do, the resistance gets pummeled – you do not get the “one weird trick,” too-clever by half kind of legal theories we see deployed against Trump. Weird stuff generally gets rejected and decisively. There’s generally one set of rules and people generally play by them – what non-lawyers hear about are the unusual cases where the rules get ignored. So, ideas like “Hey, this obscure sub-section of an amendment designed to exclude confederates can be used by one state to exclude the guy half of America wants to re-elect as president on the grounds that him not quickly enough tweeting for people to be peaceful is the same as the Civil War” rarely get raised because they always get laughed out of court. Or not laughed out – thrown out brutally when the judge gets mad about having his intelligence insulted.
But in political cases, politicized bodies like the Colorado Supreme Court accept legal nonsense (even there, only by one vote). And then it goes to the U.S. Supreme Court and suddenly, the judges are not playing by the new rules. They look at it as a legal matter – which the Twitter Perry Masons and MSNBC Clarence Darrows do not – and start asking perfectly predictable questions. Then you see the poor schlub stuck arguing for the nonsense theory, tapdancing and tugging his tie, trying to answer questions that never got asked in the echo chamber. After all, some questions are too hard to ask – they spoil a great theory. Trump is the worst monster there ever was, right? So, whatever has to be done to stop us from having to relive his nightmarish rampage of economic prosperity and peaceful security. If that means bending the law until it snaps, well, so be it. After all, Trump is a menace, and all six lawyers on set agree!
There’s your giveaway. If you get six lawyers agreeing on something, the fix is in.
That is why they are shocked when a court acts like a court, and suddenly, they need to answer tough questions about their theory. Why should one state, based on its own criteria for what constitutes an “insurrection,” get to choose who can be president for all 50 states? What happens when another state decides that not enforcing the law on the border and allowing an invasion of third-world peasants constitutes an “insurrection” and knocks Senile Joe off the ballot? Why can’t it, and no, “But There Are Special Trump Rules” does not cut it. The Supreme Court has a bit of an ego – with some exceptions, it does not like to be made a fool of, and this ballot silliness is foolish. Some of the hardest questions came from the liberal justices. Look for an 8-1, maybe 9-0 rejection of this dumb scheme.
And you will see more with the criminal cases. There are potential avenues for appeal for the wacky rape case and the attack on Trump’s businesses. I am just hoping Trump’s lawyers, whose strategies I frequently do not understand, have preserved those issues for appeal (You have to raise issues in the trial court, or you waive them on appeal). The same goes for criminal cases. I think he has meritorious selective prosecution arguments, and again. I hope his lawyers are preserving those too (you would do that by making motions in the trial court, which I am unsure has happened yet).
The legal insufficiency of the cases is an issue. The Alvin Bragg case is just stupid -even honest leftists admit that. Fani Willis’s case is stupid too, and she might find herself in a cell for being corrupt. The Jack Smith DC trial is based on unique legal theories that have never been tried before and that seem to contradict existing precedent. The Florida case got its feet kicked out from under it when the DOJ decided not to charge Biden for arguably worse acts than are alleged against Trump – though, of course, Trump can’t rely on the senility defense. All of these face severe questions when they get real judges looking at them – which might happen for some of them at the trial court level.
As for the resistance fantasy of Donald Trump spending the election campaign in successive courtrooms, do you think that’s going to end up happening? After waiting years to charge him, the government is now whining about Trump’s taking the necessary time to defend himself. We all know they timed these cases to happen in an election year, and so do the Supremes. Do you think anyone who is not a Dem appointee or named Roberts is going to shrug and go along with what everyone knows is happening? No, the federal cases, at least, will almost certainly not be heard in 2024, and unseemly haste by a judge to force them to trial before the election will not be appreciated.
These cases were always crap, and they relied on the cynicism of their proponents to maintain the fantasy that they are just law as usual. They are not, and everyone knows it – including the Supreme Court.
We need better leadership then t his pathetic little pipsqueak Biden no more Globalists for us
It all looks bad, like when they went after everyone in his campaign using foreign assets. Non-stop frivolous leaks of phone calls and if towels were soft enough.
Things will shake out, the opposition is in a panic as more and more is revealed.
Scandals are buried by new scandals. Censorship is going to be their only hope its now in full force in Europe, ministry of their truth, it cant hide the maggot riddled reality their policies have created.
And now there is a new scandal. The file the FBI is missing is, supposedly, the file that reveals the Obama, the CIA and Hillary instigated the Russigate coup and they fear Trump has or had it. THAT’S what they were looking for at Mar a Lago.
“Supposedly” according to whom?
According to news reports and investigations, which are ongoing. Of course, living in the propaganda bubble you retreat into to assure no facts or truth reaches you, you would know nothing of this. It’s also just been posted on another FA article.
It is looking like, in the end, Democrats ARE going to have to rely solely on their election fraud efforts to avoid defeat, knowing it will take probably three times as much fraud as they used in 2020 and not likely to keep even as transparently concealed as they did then. They should be aware that getting caught and not being able to lie their way out of it will destroy their election fraud option forevermore.
Trump’s poll lead over Biden slips further. It’s now only 1.1%. Haley, on the other hand, leads Biden by 3.6%.
The only significant fraud in 2020 was Trump’s fraudulent elector plot, and there’s no denying THAT really happened.
Likely voters are better indicators than registered voters as all these polls use.
Also, these polls over-weigh dems.
But, hey, time will tell if joe even runs.
May be a switcheroo down the road.
Yeah, since Democrats register a lot of “voters” who are forbidden by law to vote.
Wrong, as usual. There was no “elector fraud”, only massive and widespread Democrat election fraud. Now, all the lawfare is losing steam and it will be election fraud again in 2024, but on a scale so massive that 2020 might actually LOOK like a legitimate election in comparison.
Then give up. Your guy can’t win.
So, you think election fraud is acceptable. Got that, loud and clear, not that it is a surprise.
Ut-oh
Letitia James visited White House 3 times before charging Trump.
https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fprosecutors-reportedly-met-with-biden-admin-before-3-trump-indictments%2F
Gee, so did Nathan Wade. Coincidence?
Organized by dems, not by individual voters…..
Video of visits to some of these “voters” at their gravesites: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/14/watch-investigators-visit-graves-of-dead-voters-still-on-michigan-rolls/
Even a lawsuit doesn’t stop dems from doing this.
I bet they all have addresses, though.
The whole point of dems’ lawfare was to put a two-front war in front of Donald Trump.
The idea was it might break him and he’d quit.
Or he might lose support.
Neither happened.
If any dem had read the writings of the minister (Dr. Norman Vincent Peale) whose church Trump grew up going to for 20 years they’d realize he was inculcated into believing that a Christian, in the right, never has a breaking point.
If any dem had attended a few Trump rallies they’d also realize Trump’s supporters aren’t being fooled by fake news, phony stories, media bias.
Nikki brings up the dems’ talking point they thought would work: Trump brings “chaos.”
OOOOOOooooooo!!! I’m so scared!
Got news for dems….. I’d rather see that version of chaos then their war-mongoring, prolific spending, cronyism, crime and corruptoin.
Nikki has never seen “chaos” until she goes from being Trump’s foil to being the nominee, if that were to happen. She would then see “chaos” like she never imagined existed. Trump didn’t cause any chaos, he was the target of the Democrat’s chaos.