Injustice for All is a weekly sequence about how the Trump administration is making an attempt to weaponize the justice system—and the people who find themselves combating again.
Hell yeah, Hunter Biden retains profitable
Keep in mind the Hunter Biden laptop computer man? John Paul Mac Isaac is the pc repairman who handed a duplicate of Biden’s onerous drive over to Rudy Giuliani, kicking off years of GOP accusations and investigations. Practically three years in the past, in a Trumpy little transfer, Mac Isaac sued Biden, Sen. Adam Schiff, CNN, and Politico for defaming him, whining that he was falsely smeared as a Russian agent.
However Mac Isaac’s emotions pageant got here to an finish earlier this week when the Delaware Supreme Courtroom upheld a decrease courtroom’s dismissal of Mac Isaac’s claims.
Mac Isaac was irate over the next remark Biden made because the laptop computer story exploded in 2020:
There could possibly be a laptop computer on the market that was stolen from me. It could possibly be that I used to be hacked. It could possibly be that it was the – that it was Russian intelligence. It could possibly be that it was stolen from me. Or that there was a laptop computer stolen from me.
Half a billion {dollars} in treats remains to be not sufficient for Trump
Donald Trump ended final week with a $500 billion reward from a New York state appellate courtroom ruling which worn out his civil fraud penalty for his cute little behavior of mendacity to banks—a factor which is okay and funky and good when Trump does it, however for anybody else is allegedly grounds for termination and prosecution. So Trump and his crime household are interesting his … win. He desires the sanctions within the judgment gone, as a result of he ought to by no means ever endure any penalties.
After all, Trump declared TOTAL VICTORY when the penalty was tossed, which makes slinking off to the courtroom to ask in the event that they’d fairly please additionally say he didn’t really commit any fraud much more hilarious.
Jack Smith to Tom Cotton: lol nope
Sen. Tom Cotton has all the time taken his cues from Trump, and makes a vicious little ferret of a sidekick. That’s why the Arkansas lawmaker filed a fully unhinged ethics grievance in opposition to former particular counsel Jack Smith, alleging that Smith violated the Hatch Act by investigating and prosecuting Trump.
It’s so cute when Republicans fake to care concerning the Hatch Act, which limits the form of partisan political actions federal staff could interact in. Right here’s a report about 13 senior Trump officers violating the Act throughout his first time period. Right here’s a complete congressional listening to about all of the violations. Right here’s the administration loosening the Hatch Act guidelines throughout Trump’s second time period so all of the goons he’s stuffed into authorities can put on MAGA hats. Actually.
Neither Trump nor Cotton can conceive that anybody’s actions are taken actually, slightly than within the cynical, weaselly, bullying means they act. So, Cotton’s ethics grievance framed the completely regular actions Smith took as a prosecutor, equivalent to asking the courtroom for permission to file an extended transient or requesting a trial date, as by some means as a substitute an try to affect the 2024 election.
The letter Smith’s attorneys filed in response is blistering, and factors out that Cotton’s view of the Hatch Act would imply any politician might keep away from prosecution just by saying they have been working for workplace—which, come to consider it, is just about precisely the way it ended up understanding for Trump in spite of everything. However the mere incontrovertible fact that anybody ever investigated Trump’s open and apparent crimes is, so far as crony Cotton is anxious, the true crime.
Third Circuit to Republicans: lol nope
On Tuesday, the Third Circuit Courtroom of Appeals dominated that it’s unconstitutional for the state of Pennsylvania to toss mail-in ballots when voters don’t embrace the proper date on the return envelope. Republicans have been desperately making an attempt to suppress voting within the swing state and are fully-aligned with Trump’s unhinged warfare on mail-in ballots.
Decide D. Brooks Smith, a George W. Bush appointee, writing for the unanimous three-judge panel, wrote that the date requirement “imposes a burden on Pennsylvanians’ constitutional right to vote” and “culminates in county election boards discarding thousands of ballots each time an election is held. The date requirement will not protect against the vast majority of attempts at voter fraud.”
Inform that to the weirdo election denier from Pennsylvania who simply landed an administration job due to her election conspiracy bona fides. She’s gotta be incandescent with rage.
Trump decide lets Trump do what Trump desires, as per common
U.S. District Decide Lance Walker, a Trump appointee, helped the administration kick within the tooth of a community of Maine clinics that present well being care to low-income residents within the state. The clinics are a casualty of the GOP’s warfare on Deliberate Parenthood, with the One Huge Lovely Invoice blocking all Medicaid funding to any clinic that gives abortions—regardless of, in fact, the truth that the Hyde Modification has barred federal Medicaid funding for abortions for many years. So, too unhealthy, low-income folks in Maine who want different well being care companies like contraception.
It’s not a lot that Walker dominated in opposition to the clinics, however what he mentioned when he did it. He declared that it could be a “special kind of judicial hubris” to defy the “big beautiful bill.”
Man, present some dignity and at the very least fake you perceive your position within the ever-eroding system of checks and balances. Caping like that is simply embarrassing.
