Well said and so frustratingly true. If this wasn’t about tRump it would have been over long ago. And, if he ends up in office we are screwed.
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“Most secure border in history,” my ass. More like separating little kids from their parents and putting them in cages.
NEVER AGAIN
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Yes. I too was pretty sure Hillary was going to win, and downright positive that the Supreme Court would never pass Citizens United. This is why we never can quit until the final results are posted.
ETA: And then we start over.
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They don’t mind the fruit pickers and chicken pluckers. It’s the asylum seekers that are bugging them.
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But, but, but, THE CARAVANS!!!
Morons.
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That the wheels of justice often turn at a ponderous & deliberate pace is not the true evil … no, it is the cynical, divisive, disingenuous perversions of the process - the manipulative malevolent abuse of the system classically associated with Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn.
The calculated malicious & cynical exploitation of the judicial system are the cancers on the system - especially those underhanded actions that distort & abuse the processes and provisions intended to provide equitable treatment.
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Meanwhile let’s check in with America’s Lenin–Steve-0
Steve Bannon Admits Bank Account May Have Evidence of Fraud
Steve Bannon is in a tight spot. He didn’t pay his lawyer, got sued, and now his finances might be subject to review. The problem is, there might be evidence of fraud there.
Steve Bannon is in a maelstrom of his own making.
After failing to pay his lawyer nearly half a million dollars, he’s now clambering to halt a review of his personal finances—a situation that’s forcing him to admit something quite embarrassing: that there might be evidence of his border wall fraud scheme in his bank documents.
The conspiracy-spewing right-wing political agitator had the gall to stiff his lawyer, former federal prosecutor Robert “Bob” Costello, who stuck by him for years. Specifically, Costello was Bannon’s lawyer on a number of cases, including when he faced criminal charges for pocketing donor funds intended for a privately funded border wall between the United States and Mexico. So it was only a matter of time before the law firm of Davidoff Hutcher and Citron came knocking with a lawsuit, one that quickly resulted in a judge ordering Bannon to hand over the overdue $480,487.
But now, that miserly mistake is coming back to haunt him.
Bannon has asked a New York state judge to block Costello’s law firm from perusing through his bank statements and reviewing his assets, a request that has required Bannon to awkwardly concede that his personal finances likely have evidence that could bolster the Manhattan District Attorney’s case against him.
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It is also a product of a wariness in confronting Trump and his legions of supporters
True BUT, even more, today’s legal system is a product of Leonard Leo and his Federalist Society goons, who have been protected every step on the way by the Senators who vote in favor of the judges Leo selects, and refuse to hold justices to account when they have bee proven liars since their elevation to the Federal bench.
When the legal system itself is under threat, it must respond with extraordinary measures that continue to protect the procedural and substantive rights of the individual defendant but girds the system against attack, prioritizes institutional self-preservation, and is self-conscious of its role as a bulwark of democracy.
The problem here is the legal system does not consider itself under threat. It is simply performing the way the Federalist Society dictates.
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The level of narcissistic injury suffered by TFG yesterday is epic. He was repeatedly shut down and humiliated by Judge Kaplan, completely out of control of the situation. He saw his Barbie lawyer (apologies to Barbie) lectured like a fifth grader to restrict what Trump was NOT able to say. Weed out the lies and he has nothing. He didn’t give a news conference, didn’t have an event. The volcanic eruption brewing in his head must rival Vesuvius. Today he will be present in court to sit through closing arguments and, very likely, hear a substantial award of punitive damages.
At which point the full force of his anger will be directed to Fani Willis. New news cycle.
Until. The DC appeals court releases its decision denying his presidential immunity claim. While judges in theory should not care about timing in these things, they have to be conscious of the damage to judicial integrity if they’d ruled during the NH primary or while a jury was hearing and deliberating (unexpectedly extended) on the damages claim in the Carroll defamation case. Would put money that the immunity decision is due to drop imminently.
Take heart, @TPM_dk.
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I feared that the legal system was more inclined to sweep it all under the rug than confront it.
An effort led for several years by one, Merrick Garland.
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Don’t worry Merrick the Meek, has everything under control…
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“I’ve gone from annoyed about the repeated complaints about the slowness of the system to sharing those sentiments myself to having my hair on fire that the gravity of the moment calls for so much more than the legal system is prepared to offer. . . . Things have not been this urgent since the 1860s. And we’re failing.”
BINGO!
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Thanks for posting.
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“Good economic news…”
This is it precisely. The Rs have always had the ability to turn on a dime in their messaging. They don’t worry about that hobgoblin of little minds. They can always spin it so that they are the winners, the “Democrat Party” is the devil.
A little of this flexibility, without the lying and making stuff up, would serve the Democrats better.
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the judiciary’s own overweening sense that it is above politics
That may have been true at one time but for a segment of the judiciary, including our corrupted scotus, it’s no longer the case. The fascists demand a judiciary steeped in their twisted politics and they’ve spent years attempting to make it so.
I’m not sure how we get our country back to the point where the judiciary at least appears to be above politics.
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There are already ways to keep “illegals” from taking our jobs…but it’s Republicans who won’t enforce the mechanism. And lord love a duck trying to convince a Republican that with climate change, authoritarian gov’ts popping up like weeds, and religiosity that redoing our immigration policies is priority.
And Donnie if there was no problems with the border when you were unfortunately POTUS then why were you taking kids away from their parents? To trying to build a better wall?
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Some of us have been saying this for three years now, ever since the point in early 2021 that Garland had DOJ file a brief that Trump was immune from a civil suit. It was only the J6 Committee’s publicized findings that dragged the justice system into reluctantly taking on Trump.
Their dealings with Trump merely underlines what should have been obvious to anyone: that power, money, and influence have always determined outcomes in American courts. We got a big taste of that in 2008, when the heads of the money-center banks were unscathed while millions were thrown out of their houses with no recourse. In that case, as is typical, the justice system picked out a few symbolic people like Martha Stewart as scapegoats, while the real malefactors like Jamie Dimon, Lloyd (“we’re doing God’s work”) Blankfein, and Hank Greenberg skated.
Hell, Dimon is still CEO, and has been publicly musing about how great Trump is.
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Nonsense!!! We have children!!!
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Last time I saw a nose in that big of a predicament…
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