The Biden administration’s lawfare against Trump allies continues
They want to frighten people into never, never ever working for Trump again. Those MAGA Republicans are, of course, the enemy out to destroy America, and they deserve everything they might get – after all, Biden said so in his Red Sermon, didn’t he?
Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Trump for federal charges but is now being tried by New York for virtually the same charges, because Trump’s pardon can only apply federally and not to a state, has this to say:
…Bannon appeared on the Charlie Kirk show on Friday and he made some concerning remarks about efforts by the Biden FBI against Trump allies. Bannon said that we saw from Biden’s “demonic” anti-MAGA speech that this was the “primal scream” of a “dying regime.” Bannon claimed there were “35 FBI raids” on senior MAGA/Trump allies.
I wouldn’t necessarily credit that, except that attorney Harmeet Dhillon confirmed that she has three clients that this happened to:
Dhillon appeared with Tucker Carlson. She said that there had been a reporter reaching out asking if search warrants or subpoenas had been served on some 50 people. Dhillon confirmed to Tucker Carlson that search warrants or subpoenas had been served on three clients of hers — one of whom had their phone seized. The federal grand jury subpoenas were broad asking for any communications from October 2020, a month before the election to two months after the election. The subpoenas sought communications related to certification, fraud in the election, alternate electors, anything related to the rally before the Jan. 6 riot, and any communications related to the Save America PAC.
January 6th is the Reichstag Fire that keeps on giving. And if you previously thought that was hyperbole, I think that Biden’s over-the-top speech on September 1st should have convinced you otherwise.
More at the link, including a sample subpoena connected with these investigations.
NOTE: Please see this alarming and related development. An excerpt:
A trial was held, and on Sept. 6 New Mexico Judge Francis Mathew ordered Griffin removed from office and banned from holding any future office in the United States. “The historic ruling represents the first time an elected official has been removed from office for their participation or support of the U.S. Capitol riot,” CNN reported. “It also marks the first time a judge has formally ruled that the events of January 6, 2021 were an ‘insurrection.'”…
Mathew’s “insurrection” finding was critical to the case. After all, the 14th Amendment provides for disqualification of anyone who, having previously taken an oath to support the Constitution, has engaged in “insurrection or rebellion against the [United States].” Unlike soldiers of the Confederacy who took up arms, Griffin trespassed. How could he be removed from office for that? If the Capitol riot were not an “insurrection,” the case against Griffin fell apart. So Mathew declared the riot an “insurrection.”…
Note that in his citation…Mathew referred to “intimidation by numbers.” That was his way of suggesting that Griffin, simply by being one member of a larger group of protesters and rioters on Jan. 6, was guilty of something far greater than trespassing. Indeed, Mathew’s ruling was filled with references to what “the mob” did on Jan. 6 but had fewer examples of what Griffin himself did on Jan. 6. In any event, Mathew found that Griffin had engaged in “insurrection.” He order Griffin ousted from his position and barred from ever holding any state or federal office again.
There’s a great deal more at the link.
Using similar reasoning and approach, the left has already tried (unsuccessfully so far) to disqualify two Republican members of Congress from running for office: Madison Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Bannon is right that this is the behavior of a dying regime. These people cannot allow themselves to think even one step ahead because that would require them to examine their own behavior and actions. Instead, all they care about is getting through the current crisis which (to them) came out of nowhere and happened for no reason.
The people they frighten back into line with this stuff were never a threat in the first place and the people they can’t frighten just get angrier.
Mike
No he didmt trespass he didnt fund the bail of rioters like kamala he committed thought crime which is enough
Cnn is very upset that a federalist society bigwig is one of trumps nominees for special master
The by line is by two russia hoax purveyors perez and cohen
This is early. I suspect we will see more lawless behavior by the regime before November Woodrow Wilson set the pattern by imprisoning Eugene V Debs, the Socialist candidate who opposed the war. Wilson refused to free Debs and his sentence (10 years) was commuted by Harding when he took office.
Mathew is a state judge who has no authority to make this kind of determination. Griffin should ignore the ruling and run for another office.
Dhillon also told Tucker that her clients were engaged in protected First Amendment activities. She’s right otherwise we can lock Hillary up for claiming the election was stolen from her.
That NM case was wrongly decided. You can’t have an insurrection without guns.
The Left uses the law to punish its enemies.
If Republicans take both the House and Senate and, had any balls, they’d find some way to punish and/or to impeach and remove all of these compliant Leftist Federal and other judges who make rulings or issue orders which are, on the face of them, Unconstitutional.
But, this is lawfare, and while these various orders and rulings will ultimately end up being nullified, and people freed, by the time these issues wend their way through the court system, or even up to the Supreme Court, those targeted will have had to endure months or years of imprisonment and oppression, had to spend a ton of money on lawyers, and by the time they get “justice” this lawfare will have accomplished it’s work in the run up to the 2022/2024 elections, and the damage will already have been done.
Moreover, those who are issuing these rulings and orders are, I’m sure, counting on Republicans not having the stomach to punish them/impeach and remove them from office for what they have very deliberately done.
I can’t think of any judge involved in all of this Democrat lawfare over the last several years who has ever been sanctioned in any way, shape, or form for their actions, orders, and rulings.
I am very doubtful that a judge of any kind has this kind of authority. I look forward to seeing the appeal play out, if one is planned.
No one can even pretend that Democrats are acting in good faith. They aren’t even pretending.
Not Possible to be a morally decent person and vote for a Democrat. Not any more.
Typo: “alllies” in the title.
New Mexico Judge Francis Mathew is one of many who are busily destroying the rule of law. If they are successful in finally extinguishing it and if he lives to see it, Judge Mathews is not going to enjoy the world he has helped to create. But he will richly deserve that fate. Though those of that ilk never accept responsibility for what they have wrought. Which perhaps is Matthew’s greatest personal failing.
That is where the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington came in. On March 21 of this year, CREW filed a lawsuit in New Mexico demanding that Griffin be removed from his county position and disqualified under the 14th Amendment. Several prominent legal scholars, including Harvard’s Laurence Tribe, Berkeley’s Erwin Chemerinsky, and First Amendment defender Floyd Abrams, filed briefs in support of CREW.
Strange behavior for a “First Amendment defender.” BTW, Abrams is the first cousin of Elliot Abrams and the father of TV’s Dan Abrams.
The judge had to go all the way back to John “Alien and Sedition Acts” Adams to support his decision.
To conclude that Griffin, who was not armed and did not engage in violence on Jan. 6, was guilty of “insurrection,” Mathew had to reach back to 1799 and an obscure event known as “Fries’s Rebellion.” (It is also known in some accounts as “Fries’s Insurrection.”) Fries’s Rebellion was an anti-tax protest in southeastern Pennsylvania in which a bunch of farmers marched on tax collectors and freed a group of tax resisters who had been jailed. President John Adams sent federal troops to stop the protests. There were a number of arrests, and two leaders were tried and convicted of treason. Adams then pardoned them and everyone else involved. The event was soon forgotten.
But not by Judge Mathew. To the judge, Fries’s Rebellion presented a way to use the 14th Amendment against Griffin even though Griffin had only been convicted of trespassing. “Section Three’s framers and nineteenth-century Americans did not understand an insurrection to require actual violence; intimidation by numbers sufficed,” Mathew wrote. “Thus, Fries’ Insurrection was considered an insurrection even though there was only intimidation and not actual violence.”
So there are a lot of things the government will be considering “insurrections” from now on, and I doubt they’ll follow Adams’s example and pardon everyone.
they absolved the j 20 rioters who burned a limo on conneticut avenue, when does this ersatz matrix act get old
CREW is another fraud goo goo outfit.
If New Mexico has appellate judges worthy of the name, the decision will be quashed. The problem, of course, is that all of their appellate judges were appointed by Democrats.
We owe a great debt of gratitude to Donald Trump. First, he pointed out that the media publisher fake news, I.E. lies, and now he has demonstrated that the legal system is corrupt and dishonest.
indeed,
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/doj-picks-special-master-candidate-behind-behind-giuliani-toensing-home-raids-michael-cohen-case/
healers imprisoned, now finally released, enablers of the virus still at large,
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/100624
Hmmm. Speaker’s box. Voting box. Jury box….
ANYTHING else out there? C’mon, man!
bof:
Thanks, fixed.
Meanwhile, the nation’s leaders—those earnest non-stop champions of law, democracy and decency, those halcyon defenders of the nation, who rail tirelessly against their EVIL, TREACHEROUS, DESTRUCTIVE, MALEVOLENT opponents—are flooding the country with Fentanyl.
No doubt it’s for the absolute good of the country and its citizens.
(Or just maybe it will take the addicts’ minds off “Biden”‘s pernicious, perilous policies…)
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/texas-sheriff-says-fentanyl-should-be-classified-weapon-mass
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Been wondering who has standing to press the case that there was no insurrection? Well here it is. His appeal should be that case
https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/12/bidens-doj-doesnt-want-to-disclose-classified-mar-a-lago-documents-except-through-selective-leaks-to-leftist-media/
The uptick in harassment came after Biden’s speech. Clearly the speech was meant to explain why there would be increasing attacks on the left’s political enemies.
Ding-ding-ding-ding!
Ann in L.A. is the thread winner!!
Handing out subpoenas to 35 people has now been endorsed by Jonah Goldberg.
Sounds to me like a certain judge needs to be impeached – with prejudice.
What is the difference between an insurrection and a protest? Is it an insurrection when Code Pink disrupts the confirmation hearing of a Supreme Court Justice nominee? Senators claim they were scared during 1/6 but did anyone pay any attention to Judge Kavanaugh’s children and his wife during the Code Pink insurrection?
In January, I sincerely hope Republicans take this 1/6 committee and not disband it, but start asking the critical questions about that day that Democrats have successfully buried.
We’re a banana republic, and the chimpanzees are in charge.