Judicial election interference
From Gregg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, on Judge Chutkan’s release of Jack Smith’s new motion against Trump [my emphasis]:
Yeah [Jack Smith is] trying to have a damning trial of Trump without a trial in the face of the fact that he couldn’t get a trial before the election. And, you know, releasing this motion, this court filing, it sure looks like blatant election interference, Lawrence, you know, Trump’s lawyers urged the judge, keep it sealed, it will impact the election. The judge did it anyway with almost no discussion and there is no good reason to make it public. It’s premature. There isn’t even a trial date. So, I think this was done knowing full well media and Democrats would seize on provocative details, publicize it to [a]ffect voters and damage Trump, and sure enough, as I looked at television, the internet and newspapers, that’s what’s happening. …
At times it reads like bad detective fiction. A lot of it is irrelevant and inadmissible. Conversations that other people had that are not connected to Trump directly. So, it seems like deliberate election interference, and the incendiary details notwithstanding, Smith’s basic accusations are the same that we’ve heard all along.
The aim is to get those inadmissible details out into the public prior to the election. Mission accomplished. But I wonder if it will matter. Trump haters and Trump fans won’t change their minds, but perhaps the independents can see through such a transparent ploy.
From Megyn Kelly:
Liked that Megyn Kelly video, and said so in today’s Open thread. She said it’s basically the same “shit” as before. She also said:
I don’t see this release as hurting Trump. Still, REPs are on edge, and are easily upset.
Abortion is what I am seeing hurting Trump. How much is it hurting him? Enough that him and many MAGA REPs and Conservatives run screaming from the mere mention of the issue.
I have recently detailed why the Abortion issue has become the second reason I won’t vote (first is his pro-Russia stance against Ukraine) for Trump.
Triple hearsay i guess he needed to justify his spending 500 million dollars this year
Next time as schumer has suggested and the likes of the learned fran liebowitz has suggested there will be fewer justices to object
And as Megyn says the Democrats Propaganda Ministry are doing what Jack and Judge wanted and using it
The Dems have tried to jail, bankrupt and kill Trump so, of course, they will do and say anything to stop him from getting elected.
Say what you want about Donald Trump, but he is the mentally toughest person in the world.
Mission accomplished. But I wonder if it will matter. Trump haters and Trump fans won’t change their minds, but perhaps the independents can see through such a transparent ploy.
–neo
I too wonder if this weaponized judicial overreach against Trump works at this point. Or if it redounds against the Dems.
I was worried at the beginning of the year whether all these lilliputian suits could tie Trump down. But he and his supporters shrugged the suits off. If anything, the lawfare efforts energized the Trump movement.
As an October Surprise it seems weak tea. Are they running out of ammunition (oops, wrong word) against Trump or do they have higher cards still to play?
Meanwhile, the world burns.
@ 1:37 – “Trump behaved terribly, after he lost that election.” Megyn Kelly
Not hardly. Trump’s righteous reaction was in keeping with his gut certainty that he’d actually won the election and that an independent objective investigation would confirm it as fact. A corrupt and cowardly judiciary prevented any investigation from proceeding forward in the courts. The dems just ‘manufactured’ enough ‘votes’ in swing states to claim otherwise. Nor were unarmed Jan. 6th protestors an ‘insurrection’.
If the left pulls off another stolen election, they will have doubled down on their illegitimacy. And it is impossible to be ‘in insurrection’ against an illegitimate government.
It turns out that when one side is determined to unjustly impose an ideological tyranny upon the other, the disagreement is so fundamental that it can only be settled upon the field of honor. That is where we are headed because the left would rather rule over a nation reduced to rubble, than accept fairly conducted elections and actual constitutional governance.
The left does not accept that there are inalienable rights, only State granted and revocable privileges. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, “commie’ sympathizer Tim Walz and Hillary Clinton have all recently stated that in their view, the 1st Amendment does not protect American citizens from prosecution for spreading ‘misinformation’… which other than the trolls… will include every commenter on this blog.
Jack Smith and lawyers like him are why I have come to detest lawyers.
The practice of law is supposed to provide a presumption of innocence to the suspect. Smith, and lawyers like him, have turned that on its head. They presume the suspect to be guilty and use any trick in the book to drum up evidence that is often so flimsy as to be laughable. Such as mind reading. 🙂
Smith knows he probably can’t get a conviction, but he hopes to spoil Trump’s chances of winning the election. And the judge goes along with the scheme.
Too late, Jack. Your scheme is warmed over gruel that the MSM will gobble with a spoon. It won’t make energy cheaper or close the border – those are the issues that count.
Smith and the other mastermind of this ploy are both distinguished in having been reversed 9-0 by the Supreme Court. That’s quite a distinction.
How to influence people and steer demos-cracy. The demand for witch hunts, human rites, etc., will be fought for with tooth and nail. That said, all’s fair in lust and abortion.
It is an extraordinary skill to be beaten so badly
n.n on October 3, 2024 at 8:23 pm said:
“How to influence people and steer demos-cracy. ”
I originally read that as “demo-crazy”, which aligns with the Founders’ views on democracy as passions run amuck and mob rule; … and pretty close to all the emphasis on “our democracy” today.
JJ said, “Jack Smith and lawyers like him are why I have come to detest lawyers.”
Forty-three years of practising law is what did it for me.
Call me a slow learner.
On the other hand, there would be no need for detestable lawyers but for the even more detestable people who hire them do to their bidding. But at this point, I doubt that anything that Smith or the detestable people behind him do with the J6 case is likely to change the minds of many people. Opinions are pretty well adamantine at this point. The terrible conditions extant in the areas impacted by Helene will probably have a greater influence on the outcome, if Trump supporters, who I believe to be the majority in those areas are prevented from casting a ballot in his favor.
@ Steve > “if Trump supporters, who I believe to be the majority in those areas are prevented from casting a ballot in his favor.”
Or worse (as some have speculated), if their ballots — including those deceased — are cast for Kamala.
It is beyond depressing that such speculations seem not just possible, but very probable.
The last question of the VP debate was about the 2020 election. To which Walz used to imply that anything less than “Trump lost” was disqualifying. Then they drop the Jack Smith documents. Obviously not a coincidence. Democrats play hard ball, “swipe the knee, Johnny” hard ball. Leaving no stone unturned? Or do they see something that troubles their electoral success?
Kamala is doing significantly worse than Biden, with Hispanics, in several Battleground states.
Is this judicial interference, peremptorily intimidating 2024 protests?
Imaginos1892 says:October 4, 2024 at 9:45 am (at Hoyt’s blog)
“In the news today: Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for investigating ‘false claims’ about election machine fraud in Colorado.
If they throw you in jail for saying there’s election fraud…there IS election fraud.”
That may be too cut-and-dried, but after reading the Peters’ case then and reviewing it now, there seems to still be a lot of controversy over why she did what she did, although the actions themselves don’t seem to be at issue.
I thought questioning authority and being willing to break the law to disclose injustice was the summum bonum of the Left (the Pentagon Papers springs to mind) — but that was a long time ago, in what now seems to be a galaxy far far away.
The first post is more even-handed than the second, just to give you an idea of how the CO media comes down.
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/2024/former-mesa-county-clerk-tina-peters-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison-county-jail/article_76034a8c-81b0-11ef-a857-37f791d2f1da.html
https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/10/03/tina-peters-former-mesa-county-clerk-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison-over-voting-systems-breach/