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Since Alvin Bragg in his speech last night mentioned District Attorney Thomas Dewey from the 1930s, I think it's only appropriate to mention US Attorney General Robert Jackson from the 1940s and his warning to federal prosecutors about their capacity to abuse the law. Key excerpts: “The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is tremendous. He can have citizens investigated and, if he is that kind of person, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or unveiled intimations. Or the prosecutor may choose a more subtle course and simply have a citizen's friends interviewed. The prosecutor can order arrests, present cases to the grand jury in secret session, and on the basis of his one-sided presentation of the facts, can cause the citizen to be indicted and held for trial. He may dismiss the case before trial, in which case the defense never has a chance to be heard. Or he may go on with a public trial. If he obtains a conviction, the prosecutor can still make recommendations as to sentence, as to whether the prisoner should get probation or a suspended sentence, and after he is put away, as to whether he is a fit subject for parole. While the prosecutor at his best is one of the most beneficent forces in our society, when he acts from malice or other base motives, he is one of the worst.”
“If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm-in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.”
Jason Cohen at Da Caller, CNN’s Elie Honig Says There’s Legitimate ‘Questions’ About Whether Trump Judge Allowing Jurors To Pick Crime Is ‘Fair’. Matt Vespa at Town Hall sees CNN’s Senior Legal Analyst Pens Damning Article About the Trump Hush Money Trial. Hat Hair's John Sexton reads NY Magazine: Trump Prosecutors Contorted the Law. From Twitchy, 'Do NOT Lose Faith': Lifelong Defense Attorney's Straight-FIRE Thread on Trump Verdict RATTLES the Left
Alst at Twitchy, Clean Up, Aisle 3! Megyn Kelly Absolutely FRICASSEES Alvin Bragg With Just 1 NUCLEAR-LEVEL Tweet (Damn!) Megyn Kelly@megynkelly "Guilty on all counts. The country is disgraced. Alvin Bragg should be disbarred. They will rue the day they unleashed this lawfare to corrupt a presidential election." Nick Arama at RedState, wonders Did They Awaken the Sleeping Giant? Hat Hair's Dave Strom says Hang Together or Hang Separately. Breitbart, CNN’s Jennings: Trump Guilty Verdict ‘Going to Massively Backfire on the Democrats’ Doug Ross@directorblue "The Rubicon has been crossed. Which Dems vacation in red states so they can be criminally charged? AFAF." Dave Strom says No Mercy. Ace, Powerline: Republican AGs Need to Start Arresting and Jailing Democrat Officials, Including Those from Out of State. "And prosecute Mark Cuban while you're at it. Is it just like me or does he have a face that says "uncharged sexual assaults"?" Fred Bauer at CJ, see A Widening Gyre "Donald Trump’s conviction in his Manhattan trial exemplifies the political escalation that has marked our era—and will only get worse." Eric Cowperthwaite at Security and Cigars has Observations During The Late Republic. Judge Nappy on American Caesar and Constitutional Indifference. Jeff Lord at Am Spec sees The Curious Trump Tie between Alito’s Flag and Merchan’s Trial, "Whether flying a flag or running a trial, Trump is the issue." NewsMax reports N.Y. AG James, Dem AGs Now Going After Texas GOP Gov. Abbott. Sure, why not, they won this one, for now.
At Hat Hair, Biden Delivers Victory Lap Remarks Following Trump's Guilty Verdict. Both Althouse and Sundance at CTH host Trumps press conference. Althouse, "A Trump supporter who’s outraged by the verdict is not going to be moved for calm by any Democratic president or Republican president who does not back Donald Trump." "Even if Biden were not his political opponent, if you’re so outraged by the verdict that you’re ready to take to the street, a Democratic president is not going to reach you. That’s the sad reality of being president today." Hat Hair's Capt. Ed asks What's Next? ET, Here’s What Happens Next After Trump Felony Convictions "As a convicted felon, Trump can still run for the presidency. He is expected to appeal the conviction. Here’s what you need to know." Fox, Trump NY sentencing to be 4 days before Republican convention. "Former President Trump's sentencing hearing is scheduled just four days before the RNC convention in July"
From Da Caller, Trump Campaign Gets Immediate Avalanche Of Cash After Guilty Verdict, Donation Site Crashes and ‘I’ll Lose Friends For This’: Ultra-Wealthy Former Dem Donor Cuts Massive Check To Trump After Conviction. Matt Margolis BREAKING: Donald Trump Raises a Jaw-Dropping Amount of Campaign Cash After Bogus Verdict and First Post-Verdict Poll Will Have Democrats Regretting the Trump Trial. First Post-Verdict Poll Will Have Democrats Regretting the Trump Trial Hat Hair's KT asks Does the Trump verdict change your vote in November? ZitoSalena@ZitoSalena "I’m hearing a lot of this out here in the wild. A lot. A LOT. My personal favorite was “I am so ardently resolved to vote for Trump that I would traverse a mile of shattered glass to cast my ballot.”" ET, Trump Verdict Would Likely Impact Small Number of Voters, Poll Finds "A small number of Americans would be influenced by the outcome of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial, according to a poll." At Da Mail, Donald Trump gets a SIX-POINT bump in approval after being found guilty on 34 counts according to snap Daily Mail poll: 'I think it was a waste of taxpayer money'. Matt Taibbi at Racket, Ding, Dong, the Witch Still Leads the Polls ""We got him!" cheered protesters, headlines. What did they get?" Fox, Trump campaign warns Biden to 'buckle up' after he's released from 'freezing' court to hit campaign trail "Though Trump blasted the verdict convicting him of multiple felony charges, his campaign is not slowing down."
At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.31.24 Louder With Crowder: Sham Trial Backfires BIGLY As Trump Vows To Save America During Defiant Press Conference, American Conservative: Trump Campaign Reportedly Raises Millions After Conviction, American Greatness: Jim Jordan Calls For Bragg and Colangelo to Testify Before House Weaponization Committee in June, American Thinker: Criminal Convictions and the Presidency, The Geller Report: Trump’s Poll Numbers SPIKE, Raises STAGGERING Amount of Money After Soviet Style Conviction, Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood’s Shocking Response to Trump Verdict, Explained, also, Ryan Long: De Niro Is an ‘Old Man Shouting at Clouds’, Legal Insurrection: Vox Bemoans The (Predictable) Demise Of Brands’ Woke Activism, Blames Inflation And Bud Light, Police Clear Anti-Israel Encampment at Wayne State University and Rep. Rashida Tlaib Shows up to Complain, Trump Guilty Verdict: “It smells rotten because it was rotten”,
I gotta go, maybe I'll get to the rest later.
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