Remember the best defense is a good offense, to include, if necessary, a Hail Mary pass. Trump throws many of them. Niggling about the Constitution looks to the past. Trump looks to the future. Why do you think we had to amend the constitution many times over? It will happen again. AI may demand it.
If he doesn't do this, you think the left will stop? This is basic game theory. If one side uses 'the nuclear option' the other side must retaliate. A responsible actor tries to retaliate in a way that minimizes collateral damage. Trump is retaliating in a responsible way - has he tried to send Biden, Harris, Clinton, Obama, etc to jail? To cost them hundreds of millions in legal fees?
You might be a great legal scholar but you're not very smart beyond that. Classic trap described by Thomas Sowell.
"But what was done to him was no less outrageous than what Trump is doing to Andrew Weissmann." I disagree. Any President is held to a higher standard, having taken an oath to uphold the Constitution. There always have been law firms supporting this one or that one, but stripping people of their constitutional rights to retaliate against political adversaires is not the America to which my grandparents arrived.
How many people know that Jed Rubenfeld is married to the (very famous, legitimately so) Amy Chua. They actually wrote a book together "The Triple Package".
"Don’t tell me about due process and the First Amendment, not after Democrats for years threw due process out the window, systematically suppressed speech online, and sought to bankrupt and lock up the leading Republican presidential candidate through unconstitutional prosecutions."
Ding, ding, ding - we have a winner.
Don't forget about the completely authoritarian "COVID Mandates" Democrats pushed down everyone's throats with no due process or the suppressing of exculpatory evidence in virtually every J6 "prosecution."
And don't give me this "two wrongs don't make it right" bullshit. Republicans have turned the other cheek for decades when they finally have power only to keep getting slapped when the pendulum swings back to Democrats. Sorry Democrats and all of your sycophants, its your turn now. Enjoy!
I hate seeing erosion of the Constitutional principles, but that started in 2016 with the Steele Dossier and the constant lawfare/impeachment against Trump. Further deterioration in Courts via France in LePen court blocking her election bid and in Brazil with courts pestering Bolsonaro in his election bid. All a reaction to Trump's election and the possibility of a loss of power for he Leftists in the EU and South America.
The author’s comparison to a football game is good. Two wrongs definitely don’t make a right but sometimes you have no other choice but to play a dirty game.
"What Trump is doing to Andrew Weissmann?" Based on Mueller's performance in Congressional hearings, Weissmann had to have been running the Mueller Investigation.
As such, Weissmann knew that there was no predicate for the investigation. That was laid out in Durham's report. Weissmann was leading a fraud on the people of the US. The investigation should have been shut down quickly. Instead we went down a rathole for almost 3 years.
It is not about what Trump is doing to Andrew Weissmann. It is about what Andrew Weissmann did to the US and for which he was never found accountable.
I am not a lawyer nor pretend to be, but people like the author seemingly miss the point that proper use of presidential power is what the President says it is. Constitutionality will ultimately be determined by the courts, but after four years of President auto pen, highly aggressive lawfare and a President who sees every situation as a negotiation, let’s see where all this takes us. Then we’ll see the definition of proper use actually is in this day and age.
Big law is all about making money. They regularly weigh which clients to accept and reject, the deciding factor is which path is the most lucrative. The Federal government as a client has a right to decide which law firms to hire based on whatever factors they choose, just like private sector clients.
The night Trump was first indicted (the NYC indictment) we had friends over for dinner. All of us oppose Trump. Besides me, all were giddy over the indictment. I was quiet. They asked me why and I said that although I think Trump is likely guilty of crimes, I felt that this could lead the country to a bad place, where the winners persecute/prosecute their opponents. Sadly, I was correct. Country, meet Bad Place.
On the whole, a balanced treatment and I welcome the good prof to the FP author stable. I am among-a pretty large group of Americans, who were and remain absolutely appalled at the last four years. The country was run by an unelected cabal of leftists who, it now has been exposed, used autosign to promulgate policies under Biden's name. Who were they? We think we know, but they must be pursued for shielding Biden's decline and making a joke of the 25th Amendment. To the point of this piece-the left tried to reshape our country through mass migration, the adoption of DEI, and the lawless, WH led persecution of Donald Trump through the courts with the goal of depriving Trump voters of their candidate. It should not be shocking that now he is back in power he is working to make sure this can never happen again. The way you do this is through accountability and retribution. Political actors must be restrained with the knowledge that when the electorate decides the pendulum has shifted far enough in one direction, when it reverses course...what has gone around, comes around.
The problem about the "two wrongs" is that the mainstream media don't report on the wrongs from the left and report tripletime on the wrongs from the right.
To say that "two wrongs don't make a right" is exactly correct. However, I imagine that Trump sees things this way: since the news media, almost all educators, and the whole democrat party (without exception) will contimue to openly and unrestrainedly commit more wrongs as soon as they are back in power, I need to make hay while the sun shines. This week, in Congress, republicans, as well as democrats, demanded investigation of the "signal" mess. This shows good faith among republicans. It would be much easier to convince Trump to stay within the framework of law and convention if the media, said educators, and democrats in congress would initiate investigations into several issues. First, how fairly was the trial of Trump prosecuted by Mr. Bragg actually adjudicated? Was Alan Dershowitz correct when he said that the judge, who had pronounced democrat leanings, time and again suppressed information that would have helped Trump's case? If this is found to be the case, will the prosecutor and the judge be "corrected", or will Trump think that he has to do this? With regard to deportations, Senator Sanders, among others, is now saying that controlled immigration is necessary, and that everybody know's this. I didn't realize that he knew this until he came out with this statement. Progressive policies have led to the tremendously chaotic mess caused by some eleven to eighteen million undocumented aliens being encouraged to flock to the U. S. The media encouraged this. Although the percentage of actual criminals who came here illegally is small, they're still here, doing damage. Again, if the media and those in congress who encouraged this disaster would acknowledge they maybe, possibly, sort of might have gone a little overboard, and if they would take steps to correct the problem, Trump wouldn't have to think that it's up to only him to do this. Finally, it would be informative to investigate the allegations that former President Biden, while in office, sort of, didn't necessarily sign all the presidential orders and presidential pardons issued over his "signature." This creates an incredible legal mess. Again, media and progressive congress people, exposing and punishing whatever "wrong" occurred would greatly help to convince Trump that he doesn't have to take on the "establishment" single-handedly. Lack of action on these and other fronts does nothing but convince him that none of the people yelling so loudly for "justice" want anything else but to defy Trump at all cost. Putting money where mouth is would go an incredibly long way toward avoiding this "constitutional crisis" everybody's so concerned about. And, while we're at it, those so indignant over the really stupid and inexcusable events of January 6 might suggest to tim Walls that he not encourage people to for a "shadow government" to defy Trump. Tim needs to go back to calling pick six plays as an offensive co-ordinator of our "football team of state."
Remember the best defense is a good offense, to include, if necessary, a Hail Mary pass. Trump throws many of them. Niggling about the Constitution looks to the past. Trump looks to the future. Why do you think we had to amend the constitution many times over? It will happen again. AI may demand it.
If he doesn't do this, you think the left will stop? This is basic game theory. If one side uses 'the nuclear option' the other side must retaliate. A responsible actor tries to retaliate in a way that minimizes collateral damage. Trump is retaliating in a responsible way - has he tried to send Biden, Harris, Clinton, Obama, etc to jail? To cost them hundreds of millions in legal fees?
You might be a great legal scholar but you're not very smart beyond that. Classic trap described by Thomas Sowell.
"But what was done to him was no less outrageous than what Trump is doing to Andrew Weissmann." I disagree. Any President is held to a higher standard, having taken an oath to uphold the Constitution. There always have been law firms supporting this one or that one, but stripping people of their constitutional rights to retaliate against political adversaires is not the America to which my grandparents arrived.
How many people know that Jed Rubenfeld is married to the (very famous, legitimately so) Amy Chua. They actually wrote a book together "The Triple Package".
"Don’t tell me about due process and the First Amendment, not after Democrats for years threw due process out the window, systematically suppressed speech online, and sought to bankrupt and lock up the leading Republican presidential candidate through unconstitutional prosecutions."
Ding, ding, ding - we have a winner.
Don't forget about the completely authoritarian "COVID Mandates" Democrats pushed down everyone's throats with no due process or the suppressing of exculpatory evidence in virtually every J6 "prosecution."
And don't give me this "two wrongs don't make it right" bullshit. Republicans have turned the other cheek for decades when they finally have power only to keep getting slapped when the pendulum swings back to Democrats. Sorry Democrats and all of your sycophants, its your turn now. Enjoy!
I hate seeing erosion of the Constitutional principles, but that started in 2016 with the Steele Dossier and the constant lawfare/impeachment against Trump. Further deterioration in Courts via France in LePen court blocking her election bid and in Brazil with courts pestering Bolsonaro in his election bid. All a reaction to Trump's election and the possibility of a loss of power for he Leftists in the EU and South America.
The author’s comparison to a football game is good. Two wrongs definitely don’t make a right but sometimes you have no other choice but to play a dirty game.
"What Trump is doing to Andrew Weissmann?" Based on Mueller's performance in Congressional hearings, Weissmann had to have been running the Mueller Investigation.
As such, Weissmann knew that there was no predicate for the investigation. That was laid out in Durham's report. Weissmann was leading a fraud on the people of the US. The investigation should have been shut down quickly. Instead we went down a rathole for almost 3 years.
It is not about what Trump is doing to Andrew Weissmann. It is about what Andrew Weissmann did to the US and for which he was never found accountable.
Excellent.
“ That’s not a proper use of presidential power”
I am not a lawyer nor pretend to be, but people like the author seemingly miss the point that proper use of presidential power is what the President says it is. Constitutionality will ultimately be determined by the courts, but after four years of President auto pen, highly aggressive lawfare and a President who sees every situation as a negotiation, let’s see where all this takes us. Then we’ll see the definition of proper use actually is in this day and age.
Big law is all about making money. They regularly weigh which clients to accept and reject, the deciding factor is which path is the most lucrative. The Federal government as a client has a right to decide which law firms to hire based on whatever factors they choose, just like private sector clients.
The night Trump was first indicted (the NYC indictment) we had friends over for dinner. All of us oppose Trump. Besides me, all were giddy over the indictment. I was quiet. They asked me why and I said that although I think Trump is likely guilty of crimes, I felt that this could lead the country to a bad place, where the winners persecute/prosecute their opponents. Sadly, I was correct. Country, meet Bad Place.
On the whole, a balanced treatment and I welcome the good prof to the FP author stable. I am among-a pretty large group of Americans, who were and remain absolutely appalled at the last four years. The country was run by an unelected cabal of leftists who, it now has been exposed, used autosign to promulgate policies under Biden's name. Who were they? We think we know, but they must be pursued for shielding Biden's decline and making a joke of the 25th Amendment. To the point of this piece-the left tried to reshape our country through mass migration, the adoption of DEI, and the lawless, WH led persecution of Donald Trump through the courts with the goal of depriving Trump voters of their candidate. It should not be shocking that now he is back in power he is working to make sure this can never happen again. The way you do this is through accountability and retribution. Political actors must be restrained with the knowledge that when the electorate decides the pendulum has shifted far enough in one direction, when it reverses course...what has gone around, comes around.
The problem about the "two wrongs" is that the mainstream media don't report on the wrongs from the left and report tripletime on the wrongs from the right.
To say that "two wrongs don't make a right" is exactly correct. However, I imagine that Trump sees things this way: since the news media, almost all educators, and the whole democrat party (without exception) will contimue to openly and unrestrainedly commit more wrongs as soon as they are back in power, I need to make hay while the sun shines. This week, in Congress, republicans, as well as democrats, demanded investigation of the "signal" mess. This shows good faith among republicans. It would be much easier to convince Trump to stay within the framework of law and convention if the media, said educators, and democrats in congress would initiate investigations into several issues. First, how fairly was the trial of Trump prosecuted by Mr. Bragg actually adjudicated? Was Alan Dershowitz correct when he said that the judge, who had pronounced democrat leanings, time and again suppressed information that would have helped Trump's case? If this is found to be the case, will the prosecutor and the judge be "corrected", or will Trump think that he has to do this? With regard to deportations, Senator Sanders, among others, is now saying that controlled immigration is necessary, and that everybody know's this. I didn't realize that he knew this until he came out with this statement. Progressive policies have led to the tremendously chaotic mess caused by some eleven to eighteen million undocumented aliens being encouraged to flock to the U. S. The media encouraged this. Although the percentage of actual criminals who came here illegally is small, they're still here, doing damage. Again, if the media and those in congress who encouraged this disaster would acknowledge they maybe, possibly, sort of might have gone a little overboard, and if they would take steps to correct the problem, Trump wouldn't have to think that it's up to only him to do this. Finally, it would be informative to investigate the allegations that former President Biden, while in office, sort of, didn't necessarily sign all the presidential orders and presidential pardons issued over his "signature." This creates an incredible legal mess. Again, media and progressive congress people, exposing and punishing whatever "wrong" occurred would greatly help to convince Trump that he doesn't have to take on the "establishment" single-handedly. Lack of action on these and other fronts does nothing but convince him that none of the people yelling so loudly for "justice" want anything else but to defy Trump at all cost. Putting money where mouth is would go an incredibly long way toward avoiding this "constitutional crisis" everybody's so concerned about. And, while we're at it, those so indignant over the really stupid and inexcusable events of January 6 might suggest to tim Walls that he not encourage people to for a "shadow government" to defy Trump. Tim needs to go back to calling pick six plays as an offensive co-ordinator of our "football team of state."
Not Shakespeare but these firms are also part of the problem, regardless.
the political elite can do way more damage to the country than an auto worker in Detroit