Give us Justice

For John, BLUF:  The couorts, and prosecutors, need to have an even hand for all crime, or they will destory our democracy.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Politically selective prosecution

From Tilting At Windmills, by Blogger Tom Knighton, 25 June 2024.

Here is the lede plus six:

The way things are supposed to work in our country, people shouldn’t be punished selectively. Their politics should be largely irrelevant to their prosecution nor should who they are or what they stand for prevent it if prosecution is warranted.

That’s the ideal situation, at least.

In reality, prosecutors use all kinds of criteria to determine who gets prosecuted and who doesn’t. Sometimes, that’s informed by the DA’s politics. A conservative “tough on crime” type might prosecute someone that a more liberal DA would let walk, for example.

But again, as long as the defendant’s politics don’t play into things, I don’t have an issue with that. District attorneys are voted on, after all, and people deserve what they vote for.

In Manhattan, however, DA Alvin Bragg isn’t trying to be subtle. He’s blatantly allowing his politics to expressly determine who gets prosecuted and who doesn’t.

For example, we all know about Trump’s prosecution for a crime that makes absolutely no sense. Bragg distorted the law and likely only got a conviction because of an equally biased judge. The idea that an internal accounting error, at worst, is fraud was stupid beyond belief.

Then there’s the flip side, where now people feel betrayed by Bragg over who he didn’t prosecute.

Law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds says:  "When the law isn’t evenhanded, people will take the law into their own hands.".

Mob justice isn't very just.  A lot of factors can be quickly paaaed over as the mob and its leaders seek swift justice.  We need real justice, with real courts and real prosecutors and defense attorneys.  The George Soros backed attornies are depriving us of that justice, and it will turn around and bite them.

A thought for criminals and law abiding citizens both:  The police do not exist to protect the law abiding citizens from the criminals, but to protect the criminals from those citizens.  Remember what our Founding Fsthers wrote back in 1776:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

The courts should be how we secure those rights and DA Alvin Bragg, and others, are standing in the way.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff