Sunday, September 10, 2023
Weaponized prosecutors are denying Trump 'constitutional right to due process'
'The world is watching'
The weaponized prosecutors in the various Democrat-supported legal cases against President Donald Trump are denying him his "constitutional right to due process," according to a legal expert.
And, "The world is watching," charges Alan Dershowitz in a column posted at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
He's the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and has 60 years of experience in America's courtrooms.
Trump is being targeted by leftists in the Department of Justice and state agencies for his "crimes" that include making telephone calls and expressing his opinion about the suspect 2020 president election and more. In Georgia he's accused of doing the same thing that Al Gore did in 2000, actions for which he never even was considered for charges.
Dershowitz explained, "The four criminal trials currently scheduled for former President Donald Trump are amongst the most significant and controversial trials in American history. It is imperative that they also be among the fairest trials in our history. Regardless of the results—acquittal, conviction, hung jury—the trials must be perceived as having been fair. The defendant must receive the benefit of all of his constitutional and statutory rights. Not only is Donald Trump on trial in these cases, but the American system of justice is on trial, not only in America but around the world."
He noted Trump's tenure in the White House and the fact he's the leading candidate against octogenarian Joe Biden.
"Never before in our history has a leading presidential candidate been indicted, especially in the run-up to the election. If the trials themselves are unfair or even reasonably perceived to be unfair, our nation will be further divided and our standing in the world of democracies will be further damaged," he warned.
He pointed out that many on the left demand that someone "get" Trump.
"Many believe that the noble end of preventing Trump from being our next president justifies ignoble means, including stretching the Constitution and the law so as to assure his conviction. They believe that the reelection of President Trump would be more dangerous than compromising his constitutional rights," he said. But that opinion, he said, is "shortsighted."
It's because right now it seems Trump is being denied "his most fundamental constitutional right—to present his defenses to an unbiased jury."
The timing and location of those court events are at issue.
He said prosecutors all are trying to line up trials at the height of the 2024 presidential election race.
"Even if these convictions were subsequently to be reversed on appeal, they will have served their intended purpose in influencing centrist voters, which is why they are prepared to rush to legal injustice—to serve what they view as 'political' justice," he said.
"As a lawyer with 60 years of experience litigating and teaching about complex criminal cases, I have absolutely no doubt that a fair trial cannot be accomplished within this time frame," he said.
He cited one case, the RICO claims made by a leftist local prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia. It is in this case the prosecutor is trying to contend that making phone calls and having meetings is illegal.
Dershowitz said he's never seen a case with such extreme legal complexities, and "millions of documents" going to trial is such a short time.
"The same is true of the D.C. case, where the judge insisted the public has a right to a speedy trial under the 6th Amendment," he said.
"This is nonsense: Only the defendant has the right to demand a speedy trial," he charged.
And he said going after a Trump conviction in a "speedy but unfair" trail would blast the "neutrality" of the judicial system.
Further, the location is important, especially as in Washington, where some cases are going on, "Many of those potential jurors hate him with a...
Let’s Kill Hollywood
Imagine if more conservatives were willing to take on Hollywood instead of pandering to it?
Over the summer, Barry Diller warned that the double strike by Hollywood actors and writers could “potentially produce an absolute collapse of an entire industry.”
Diller, who once headed Paramount and 20th Century FOX, may know what he’s talking about.
Hollywood, trying to compete with the vast resources of dot coms like Netflix and Amazon, has been spending untold billions of dollars to convince everyone to buy subscriptions to their streaming services. Netflix will spend $17 billion, Amazon spent $16.6 billion while Disney blew through $32 billion. Disney is trying to recoup some of the billions it lost on Disney+ by cutting costs and going into the lucrative but shady business of sports betting through ESPN.
Once upon a time, Disney might have worried about the damage to its ‘family friendly image’ but once it started peddling sexual materials to kids, gambling is actually a major step up.
The entertainment industry’s big companies have blown through over $100 billion to secure streaming subscribers. The longer the strike lasts, industry figures like Diller fear that the pipeline of new shows and movies will fade and the subscribers will go away. After spending a fortune they don’t have to lock in subscribers, Hollywood may be left with nothing.
But if Hollywood were to die, would anyone really miss it very much?
From the popularization of the cowboy to space exploration and the action hero, Hollywood once made up a vital part of the American mythos. Where the industry once sold the American Dream around the world, it has traded that in for a new woke identity that disdains the country.
New Hollywood is no more integral to the American story than the video game industry or Silicon Valley. It’s an addiction mechanism that no longer adds the faintest iota of anything to the culture. It can no longer pretend to be a dream factory, it’s where the dream goes to die to be reborn as intellectual properties with scripts written by woke AI that will soon star AI actors.
Hollywood is still big business and the strikes are estimated to cost the economy $5 billion, but there are industries that add far more, with less negative side effects, that are under siege.
Occasionally conservative movies, like ‘Voice of Freedom’, emerge as a reminder that the country can have a film industry that speaks to us without Hollywood. And that such an industry would be much more likely to emerge if Hollywood were to destroy itself or be destroyed.
Disney has been battered by its wasteful streaming spending, but also by its battle with Gov. DeSantis in Florida. The biggest old school studio in Hollywood took such a severe beating because the industry is far more vulnerable than most conservatives realized it was.
Hollywood has dozens of vulnerabilities from a dependence on tax credits and foreign investors to its infamously illegal accounting practices and countless legal exemptions. Until recently, Hollywood studios threw around their weight in red states, announcing boycotts over religious freedom issues and demanding (and getting) millions in tax credits from Republican governors.
There’s no real sign that’s changing outside of Florida.
Georgia has allocated a whopping $1.3 billion in Hollywood tax credits. That’s more than New York and California combined. A proposal to cap the credit at under $1 billion, and save $1.7 billion, was shot down by House Speaker David Ralston (now retired), who argued, “I’m not prepared to run that industry out of Georgia.” Capping Hollywood tax credits at a gargantuan $900 million somehow amounted to running the entire film industry out of Georgia.
Hollywood was more than ready to run Republicans out of Georgia by backing...
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