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More: A California Bar judge has recommended to the California Supreme Court that John Eastman be disbarred for his participation in the January 6th Insurrection. It is expected the recommendation will be upheld by the Court. Ten out of eleven counts against him including failing to support the Constitution of the United States were found proven by the state's Office of Chief Trial Counsel. Eastman was employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder as a visiting scholar on conservative thought while he was advising the Boss on how to overthrow the US government.
Critics of the US justice systems think that there are actually two systems of justice, one for the rich and one for the rest of us. Case in point: The first division of the New York Applelate Court reduced the celebrity defendant's supersedeas bond in the civil fraud case from $464 million to $175 million and gave him ten more days to raise the money! The one page order did not explain why the intermediate appellate court granted such an astounding break to defendant Trump. Granted, there is a criminal case against him in the same department, but that is his doing not the people of the state of New York. US Person expects the judgement debtor to convince a surety to put up the lower amount given that Boss Trumpilini has already told the court he could afford $100 million. Posting bond effectively stays execution on the judgement until at least September when the intermediate appeals court begins a new session and can decide his appeal. The court-ordered monitorship of his company remains in effect. Meanwhile™ he received a $5 billion windfall when his Trump Media company went public this week. Shares are now selling at $68, and his Bible at $60. In effect, his assault on American democracy is being funded by the herrenvolk. One informed estimate is that he spends $90,000 a day on legal bills, none of which comes out of his pocket.
Why quibble over distinctions without a difference, when the similarities are so striking? Americans have long harbored fascistic tendencies. It is historic fact that Nazi race laws were modeled on southern American anti-miscegenation laws. Hitler called racist industrialist Henry Ford his "inspiration". Hero Charles Lindbergh admired the Nazi rise to power in Germany and accepted a medal from Hitler. He became spokesperson for the defeatist "America First" political action committee. You want to call him "proto-fascist"? Fine, with US Person. That is enough for him to join a united front against a narcissistic dilettante who cannot make up his mind about contemporary issues, and consistently echos Nazi rhetoric. If given another chance at power he will become a more consistent and accomplished fascist, perhaps with lessons from Europe's Viktor Orban.
On the side of equal justice under law, Justice Juan Merchan has rejected any more attempts at delay in the criminal fraud case and scheduled the trial to begin on April 15th, and imposed a limited gag order on Der Leader. Trump's attorneys tried to implicate the prosecution in the delay of providing discovery material to the defense at a hearing on the 25th. Justice Merchan was having none of that, and forcefully admonished the defense for making accusations of prosecutorial misconduct without any support. So a jury verdict in the case could come sometime this summer, in the middle of the presidential election. History is be made being made as the first US President goes to trial for crimes committed while in office!
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| credit: M. Lukovich, Atlanta Journal-Constituiton |
