Since roughly the 2020 election, I’ve simultaneously:
- Thought something was amiss about the elections; if not Chicago-style ballot stuffing, at least a world of irregularites with the “legal” changes due to Covid – mail in balloting, and the collusion between the DOJ, the Biden campaign, big media and big tech to “shape” the Hunter Biden story, among others
- Told some of the more extreme election skeptics, especially on the air, “That’s an interesting theory, but until Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani bring an actual case with evidence to court, rather than beclowning themselves, what do you expect we’re going to do about it?”
Three points.
Imperfection
The first point? I made that a few weeks back, when I talked about why I don’t necessairly think “a judge and jury say so” is completely invariably the dispositive last word on any issue. Long story short – judges and juries make mistakes. And that’s ignoring the fact that some prosecutors play fast and loose with the rules, some defense attorneys have no idea what they’re doing, and some judges just want to make their @$%$#& tee times.
Sometimes it gets caught.
The legal system isn’t perfect, but it beats most of the alternatives.
Which may or may not be good enough.
Second: In a separate, seemingly unrelated topic: in Minnesota, most judges are elected. But the candidate pool is intensely circumscribed because, as a lawyer once told me, running a campaign against a sitting judge in front of whom one will one day have to appear in court is pretty much a one-way trip toward spending the rest of your career chasing people who bounce checks.
Judges, by inference – who are charged with being our society’s stentorian impartial guardians of justice and fairness and due process – apparently have the egos of a bunch of middle school “mean girls”.
Reading between the lines: the reputation and social standing of practitioners among other practitioners is as much a part of the judicial system as due process and gavels and the literal letter of the law.
Socially Rigged
So – did the social pressure among lawyers, judges and everyone else in the legal profession that we discussed above affect the election, or the way the courts approached questions about it?
I don’t know. But this article, among others, certainly seems to brag about the power of the Legal Mean Girl caste to bring Big Law into line. Certainly Big Media isn’t going to report on it.
Let’s just say I can be convinced.
I’m not really sure this very measured commentary can, in any way, be considered stirring up another Republic-threatening hornets nest. Measured and four years late even. But OK, I guess.
Both Joe Doakes and Bigman Jones have written multiple, long, quality explanations that might’ve convinced you, but maybe they didn’t.
Now, of course, the DemoCommies have learned from their errors and their successes and they have much more planned for this go-round in 2024. In their goal to prove (at least to themselves) that they can elect anyone regardless of their unsuitability, I hear tell they’re contemplating running a tranny for president. Oh, yeah, and turning Texas blue again (with the election of Soros approved county attorneys).
The Republicans are ready tho’. They’ll leave that border wide open so as not be considered racist, leave those J6 protesters to rot (even tho’ some have yet to be tried), let the FBI continue as Biden’s Praetorian Guard, address the debt and deficit by proposing a tax cut, and argue about how much they hate Trump. Should be an entertaining election season, if nothing else.
There is more evidence coming out that there was a considerable effort to rig the 2020 election. Sadly, there has only been coverage by the alt media.
Last week, a demonstration was conducted if a Georgia courtroom, illustrating how the Dominion voting system could be hacked.
https://www.wdbo.com/news/computer-expert-hacks-dominion-voting-machine-front-judge-changes-votes-with-bic-pen/EM5Q4XKDARGPPC7Z6MTUWSOYSA/
The producers of “2000 Mules”, were dismissed as the standard right wing conspiracy theorists, until the FBI revealed that they were using the same technology to track down J6 attendees. Suddenly, the media was silent.
A few weeks ago, the results of a survey revealed that 7% of the respondents admitted to completing more than one ballot. 7% is more than enough votes to swing an election.
Arizona had problems with voting tabulators in key traditional red areas, due to oversized paper that the ballots were printed on. Said ballots were printed months before the election, yet funny! No one caught it or more likely, knew about it, because they came up with the plan.
Finally, I don’t see how anyone can deny that there was ballot manipulation, when counting was stopped, for the first time ever, in the middle of the night, with Trump crushing Pedo Pete. When counting (read fraudulent actions) resumed, Pedo Pete was significantly ahead, because hundreds of thousands of ballots for him, a mathematical impossibility.
^ Very nice summary, boss.
Brian Banks’ case illustrates something really horrendous about our “justice” system; they often aren’t all too interested in finding evidence. All too often, they’re mostly interested in checking boxes and running through the processes, and this extends even to the defense attorneys. Nobody complains because everybody’s being paid by the hour.
In Banks’ case, although the taped confession was ruled inadmissible, the CIP was able to find quite a bit of exonerating information very quickly, and that 11 years after his original trial and conviction. The police and prosecutor were spectacularly unmotivated to fulfill their responsibilities under Brady v. Maryland and Kyles v. Whitley, to put it mildly, and this fits the model that the Star-Tribune found in Minnesota, where only 20% of sexual assault allegations got a good basic investigation including assignment of an investigator, interview of the accuser and accused, interviews of witnesses, and collection of basic evidence.
And if you’re a young guy with a forensic science degree looking for a job, your options here in MN are basically “pay your way through police academy and spend a few years forgetting what you learned while you hand out speeding tickets”. My son-in-law learned this.
In the case of the elections, what I noticed was that the 63-odd rulings against Trump were decided on grounds of “did regulators have authority to change the rules midstream?”, not on whether those changes were likely to result in fraudulent votes. Again, the question of evidence seems to have been suppressed.
The Donald is being charged in Georgia for asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find votes”.
Okay……………
But does anyone recall that Marc Elias, the Darth Vader of Democratic politics who gave us “Russia, Russia, Russia” found several thousand votes in the form of absentee ballots to steal the election from Norm Coleman and give it to the unfunny man Al Franken?
This article is partly on topic. It’s a little long, but worth the read.
https://drsircus.com/world-news/politics/american-democracy-is-a-disgrace-to-the-human-race/
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Only favored groups get a defense in courts. Tony law firms in NY and DC fell over themselves to represent terrorists at Gitmo and Derek Chauvin had a one attorney against an array of state prosecutors. What is really eye opening is that it was a lawyer leading the charge against this law firm representing Trump. Our system of justice is getting carved out from the inside. I may not like depraved murderers getting a defense in court but that is our way.
OK, I don’t know if this is a place that will get the idea anywhere, but just for giggles, I took a look around with a quick “does anyone audit prosecutors?”, and all I got was things on how prosecutors fail to get punished for blatant failures to adhere to Brady and Kyles.
Now that’s important, yes, but what strikes me is that if you want ethical prosecutors, you’ve got to–here’s that Star-Tribune series again that I referred to–start grading police and prosecutors based on whether they use best practices in investigation. Things, again, like “was an investigator assigned?”, “did he interview the accuser?”, “did he locate and interview other potential witnesses?”, “did he attempt to interview the accused?”, “was this provided to the defense?”, and the like. The greater the crime/penalty, the longer that list of best practices needs to be.