{"id":1455808,"date":"2024-02-07T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1455808"},"modified":"2024-02-07T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T08:30:00","slug":"on-the-rising-danger-of-democratic-lawfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/on-the-rising-danger-of-democratic-lawfare\/1455808\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Rising Danger Of Democratic ‘Lawfare’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Rising Danger Of Democratic ‘Lawfare’<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Alex Berenson via ‘Unreported Truths’ substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York state fraud case against Donald Trump is absurd; and the White House now openly tells its operatives to defy Congressional subpoenas. Democrats seem blind to the risks they’re running.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Even dictatorships have judges.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Which doesn\u2019t mean they have justice.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Democrats appear ever-more enamored with \u201clawfare\u201d \u2014 a term that hardly existed before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 \u2014 as they try to keep Trump from returning to the White House.<\/p>\n

Left-wing politicians, prosecutors, and lawyers may be sincere when they say they believe Trump is an\u00a0existential threat\u00a0<\/a>to democracy who must be stopped by any means necessary.<\/p>\n

But they would be wise not to become what they fear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Democratic effort to twist the legal system has accelerated in the last few months.<\/p>\n

Trump and his most ardent supporters now face an unrelenting flow of civil and criminal cases, some of which at best stretch legal theories to their limits. But judges in blue cities and states have been notably reluctant to push back on them.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as I wrote yesterday, the Biden White House has now openly encouraged its operatives to defy Congressional subpoenas by promising them carte blanche to do so – even as the Justice Department tries to jail Trump\u2019s advisors for similar moves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The issue stretches far beyond the four flagship criminal cases and 91 charges that Trump faces. In those, at least, he has the protections that criminal law gives defendants, and the financial resources to use them.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press estimated that Trump has spent\u00a0$77 million<\/a>\u00a0in the last two years defending himself. Even bigger expenses lie ahead as his criminal trials approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of Trump\u2019s biggest supporters are not so lucky. In Washington, D.C., prosecutions over the Jan. 6 protests and riot are increasingly unhinged. Even the New York Times\u00a0admitted last month\u00a0<\/a>they have now caught many people who \u201cdid little more than walk into \u2014 and then out of \u2014 the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Colorado,\u00a0the former general counsel\u00a0<\/a>of the Democratic Party has led an effort to use language meant for\u00a0Confederate secessionists\u00a0<\/em>to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot.<\/p>\n

And in New York, the reality that Trump cannot count on anything like impartial hearings from neutral judges has been clear for months. Not coincidentally, the actions that have damaged Trump the most were both brought in Manhattan, where Trump is widely hated and Joe Biden\u00a0won 87 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the vote in 2020.<\/p>\n

Most stunningly, Trump faces up to $370 million in fines\u00a0and the loss of his businesses<\/em>\u00a0for a civil \u201cfraud\u201d case brought by the state of New York in which he took out loans –\u00a0then fully repaid them.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Even the Associated Press questioned the ruling, writing that Trump\u2019s companies were:<\/p>\n

the only big business found that was threatened with a shutdown [under the New York law used against Trump] without a showing of obvious victims and major losses.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some legal experts worry if the New York judge goes ahead with such a penalty in a final ruling expected within the next couple of weeks, it could make it easier for courts to wipe out companies in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then there are the two \u201cdefamation\u201d lawsuits from E. Jean Carroll, a woman who was completely unknown\u00a0until she accused Trump in print of raping her.\u00a0<\/em>(Carroll\u2019s suits might more accurately be called \u201cfamation\u201d cases.)<\/p>\n

Manhattan juries have already decided against Trump in those suits and awarded Carroll almost $90 million. Trump certainly used nasty language to defend himself against Carroll\u2019s claims, but it is unclear how exactly he could have denied them without incurring a jury\u2019s wrath.<\/p>\n

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Back in Washington, the Biden Administration is now extending its (literal) contempt of the law to Congress, as I wrote yesterday:<\/p>\n

URGENT: Ex-White House advisor Andy Slavitt is refusing to comply with a subpoena over questions about how he tried to censor me and others in 2021<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n

ALEX BERENSON<\/a>\u00b7 FEB 4<\/em><\/p>\n

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Andrew Slavitt, the former Biden Administration operative who in 2021 helped conspire to violate my First Amendment rights and make Twitter ban me, has refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena to testify about his actions. Slavitt\u2019s lawyers told<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Read full story<\/a>…<\/em><\/p>\n

That the White House has told two of its former operatives – Andy Slavitt and Rob Flaherty, the deputy campaign manager of Biden\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign – to ignore a lawful Congressional subpoena is ugly enough.<\/p>\n

But the fact that it has done so while prosecuting two of Trump\u2019s advisors for refusing similar testimony is far worse.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this has stopped me and James Lawrence from suing the White House for its censorship efforts in\u00a0Berenson v Biden<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I remain a believer in the court system – and very optimistic that federal Judge Jessica G.L. Clarke will see the merits of our case. After all, Judge William Alsup – a Clinton appointee – took our arguments in\u00a0Berenson v Twitter<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/a>seriously and rejected Twitter\u2019s motion to dismiss the suit.<\/p>\n

But the overall picture is ugly.<\/p>\n

Sure, Democrats are winning tactical victories and costing Trump money. But they\u2019re not considering how these efforts to use the courts look, not just to Trump partisans but\u00a0anyone<\/em>\u00a0who thinks elections should be decided by voters, not judges or juries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And Trump\u2019s\u00a0criminal<\/em>\u00a0prosecutions haven\u2019t even gotten to trial yet.<\/p>\n

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Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 02\/06\/2024 – 22:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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