Injustice for All is a weekly sequence about how the Trump administration is attempting to weaponize the justice system—and the people who find themselves preventing again.
This week, we’ve received some outdated favorites rearing their ugly heads. From defying court docket orders to forcing children to have a look at the Ten Commandments to doing just a bit gentle voter fraud and a really massive financial fraud, conservatives have been out in full pressure—and full stupidity—as per normal.
Decide Boasberg won’t be intimidated
Regardless of a full-court press of assaults from the Trump administration, together with the Division of Justice submitting a completely faux misconduct criticism in opposition to him, U.S. District Court docket Decide James Boasberg is shifting forward with contempt proceedings in opposition to the administration. The proceedings are slated to begin subsequent week until President Donald Trump figures out how you can get his Large Cool Pals on the Supreme Court docket to dam it.
Boasberg is sort of a canine with a bone right here (that’s a praise!), tenaciously digging in to make the administration clarify precisely how defying his March 15 order to show the planes heading to CECOT round was one way or the other not really defying a court docket order.
One wrinkle? Boasberg must take testimony from individuals concerned in that call, however considered one of them is now sitting in a lifetime seat on the Third Circuit Court docket of Appeals. We all know precisely what kind of habits this administration rewards.
Federal choose nonetheless received’t throw out the First Modification, how dare he
U.S. Federal Decide Orlando Garcia, some weenie liberal who doesn’t perceive America, simply blocked 14 Texas faculty districts from imposing the extremely unconstitutional legislation requiring public colleges to show the Ten Commandments.
Effectively, one explicit model of the Ten Commandments. The King James model, natch.
Garcia held that this violated the First Modification’s Institution Clause, due to course it does, however that’s actually the entire level. Texas is pushing this exactly as a result of it’s unconstitutional, however they actually, really need the Supreme Court docket to have a case so it may rule in any other case. Hey, it labored for abortion, proper?
Uh, we would have discovered the voting fraud you’re in search of?
Each accusation is a confession, and so forth.
The suitable continues to howl nonstop about nonexistent voter fraud. Conservatives are so certain that’s what is obstructing them from electoral success, versus the truth that their insurance policies are a wallop of fascist suck. However hear: What if they may discover some precise fraud? Guess you’d shut your liberal piehole then!
Uh, we positively discovered a special kind of fraud
It has been tough to maintain monitor of all of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who received pardons from Trump and turned proper round and stored doing crimes, as a result of who was going to cease them? However repeat crime sprees, post-pardon, aren’t only for Trump’s violent little minions. They’re additionally for these he pardoned for fraud, which frees them as much as simply commit extra fraud.
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On his approach out the door in 2021, Trump commuted the sentence of Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein, who had been sentenced to 24 years in jail, however he walked out after a bit underneath eight years behind bars. Weinstein had defrauded buyers of roughly $230 million, a staggering sum for the individuals who misplaced that cash, however mainly a rounding error for Trump.
As a result of Weinstein completely completely positively realized his lesson, he began doing a little new fraud just about instantly. Now, he’s heading again to jail for 37 years after defrauding dozens of individuals to the tune of $35 million as a part of a scheme the place they have been advised they have been gaining access to offers to assist Ukraine. Any odds on how lengthy he’s incarcerated this time round earlier than Trump pardons him so he can begin some new fraud?
Musk couldn’t purchase him a seat, however Trump will give him a job
After the 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk was positively feeling like a celebrity, safe within the information that his cash might purchase him no matter election he needed. Certainly, his cash cleared the best way for Trump to win once more, so why not slosh a few of that cash round to different races, proper?
That didn’t work out so effectively within the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket race earlier this 12 months. Musk dumped about $15 million to again Brian Schimel, who nonetheless managed to lose to the Democratic candidate by 10 factors.
However you possibly can’t preserve a mediocre hard-right white man down, now are you able to? Schimel apparently had Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi on velocity dial, so he texted her to ask if she would fairly please make him the interim U.S. legal professional for Wisconsin. Now, he’s. Neat how that works, and an actual assurance we’re getting essentially the most high quality individuals, not simply whoever Bondi final laid eyes on.
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