The Big Apple Sets Its Own Rules

For John, BLUF:  Per Law Prof Turley, New York City is a vast Democratic Party wasteland, where the rule of law is subverted to political ends.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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At the Supreme Court, two cases lay bare New York’s legal wasteland

From The Hill, by Law Professor Jonathan Turley, 22 June 2024, 10:30 AM ET.

Here is the lede plus one:

In 1976, Saul Steinburg’s hilarious “View of the World from 9th Avenue” was published on the cover of the New Yorker. The map showed Manhattan occupying most of the known world with wilderness on the other side of the Hudson River between New York and San Francisco. The cartoon captured the distorted view New Yorkers have of the rest of the country.

Roughly 50 years later, the image has flipped for many. With the Trump trial, Manhattan has become a type of legal wilderness where prosecutors use the legal system to hunt down political rivals and thrill their own supporters. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) ran on a pledge to bag former president Donald Trump. (She also sought to dissolve the National Rifle Association.)

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also pledged to get Trump. Neither specified how they would do it, but both were elected and both were lionized for bringing controversial cases against Trump.

Just beyond the Hudson River, the response to these cases has been far less positive. James secured an obscene civil penalty of almost half a billion dollars without having to show there was a single victim or dollar lost from alleged overvaluation of assets.

The picture Profesor Turley paints is one of the rule of law being subverted to political ends in an area where one political party has almost total control.  The natural question is if the Democratic Party stranglehold on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could create similar political and legal conditions?

The job of good Americans is to stand against this kind of perversion of the Rule of Law.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff