Category: Lawfare
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Lawlessness at the Top and the Bottom of Society
Lawfare and overregulation at the top; toleration and promotion of crimininality among the lower orders. A depredatory theme of the previous administration. Overregulation is well documented by Neil Gorsuch in his Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, HarperCollins 2024. You should rejoice that the destructive Dems have met their nemesis. Nemesis is…
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No One is Above the Law!
No one is above the law, but only if the law is above everyone, impartial and uninfluenced by partisan will. But that is not now the case with terminally mendacious, anti-civilizational leftists hard at work destroying our constitutional republic. And yet these brazen, serial liars never leave off posturing as defenders of 'democracy,' 'the Constitution,'…
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The Trump Conviction: It Depends How the Question is Framed
Donald J. Trump is a convicted felon. Indisputably true. And so the question is asked: "Would you vote for a convicted felon for U. S. president?" Time was when almost everyone, regardless of political affiliation, would have answered in the negative. For until recently lawfare was rare if not nonexistent in the USA. When procedural norms…
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Donald Trump: Enemy of the State
Here Have you studied the Ayaan Hirsi Ali piece? I assigned it yesterday. The mind and life you save may be your own.
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Sohrab Ahmari on ‘Lawfare’
An exercise in naïveté: Reacting to Donald Trump’s hush-money conviction in Manhattan on 30 May, the French writer Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry asked on X: “Has there been a single left-of-centre person… who has said: ‘Hey, nakedly partisan prosecutions of your political opponents goes against the values of liberal democracy, rule of law, justice, and everything my…
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The Destruction of Jurisprudence
Victor Davis Hanson: Now we are left with a final toxic gift from this [Boomer] generation: the destruction of jurisprudence, a system designed not to easily protect the popular and admired but those often pilloried in the public square, the unorthodox, eccentric, and unliked. Even Trump’s antagonists know that had Donald Trump been a man…
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Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker
You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…
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Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker
You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…
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Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker
You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…
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Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker
You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…