This political cartoon depicting the assault of Lady Justice has gone viral in the wake of recent allegations against Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination
Trump interferes in Justice Departments processing of criminal cases...and pardons his friends
https://www.newsweek.com/can-trump-interfere-courts-and-judges-800340
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/18/emergency-meeting-of-federal-judges-association-called-after-doj-intervenes-in-trump-allys-case_partner/
Trump interferes with Roger Stone's sentencing:
ReplyDeleteProsecuters resign in protest!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-stone-sentence-justice-department-1.5461567
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2-as-it-happens/clip/15760573-nowhere-to-run-to
Roger Stone's sentence reduced:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/roger-stone-40-months-sentencing-verdict.html
Attorney General William Barr is intervening in another sentencing over the Trump-Russia affair, this time of former senior Trump campaign official and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Deletehttps://eaworldview.com/2020/02/barr-intervenes-another-trump-russia-sentencing/
DeleteTrump has stacked the courts with rightwing judges:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-judiciary-conservative-judges
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/us/politics/democrats-courts-trump.html
bill dalityOctober 16, 2018 at 12:37:00 PM PDT
DeleteWith Kavanaugh beholden to Trump for his appointment to the Supreme Court any legal challenges to Trump's executive orders will simply be rubber stamped without impartial deliberation.
Supreme Court decisions will be slanted in favour of Trump's right wing policies and agenda.
When the highest court in the country is not seen to be objective/independent of political influences but conspicuously partisan in its decisions, how are citizens to have any trust that the judicial system will be a fair resolver of conflicts and a provider of justice?!
On the death of chief justice Ginsberg and days away from the presidential election Trump is trying to ram through another rightwing appointee to the supreme court
ReplyDeletethereby tilting final judicial decisions 6 to 3 in Republicans favour.
Because these are lifetime tenured positi o ns, if Trump suceeds conservative policies will be entrenched for generations!
Apart from the longterm consequences for legislation, a more immediate threat is that if the outcome of the November presidential election is indecisive, the final decision will be made by the Supreme Court!!
ReplyDeleteTrump appoints youngest qualified candidate to replace Ruth Ginsberg on Supreme Court thereby ensuring that the right-wing mindset will influence critical decisions for the maximum days into the future!!
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Amy Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972) is an American lawyer, jurist, and academic who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Barrett considers herself a public-meaning originalist; her judicial philosophy has been likened to that of her mentor and former boss, Antonin Scalia.
Trump has stacked the Supreme Court with rightwing judges 6:3 with Any Barrett confirmation!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/us/politics/senate-confirms-barrett.html
Trump burns down the house of justice as he walks out the door
ReplyDeleteExercises his. power to pardon by pardoning convicted felons and co-conspirators with no respect for justice!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/trump-pardons-stone-manafort-kushner/index.html