The long, laborious, and unnecessary(two-week delayed) judgment by Judge Scott McAfee in the Georgia election interference case was released this morning. After a three-day-long probe into the sex life of Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, McAfee ruled that she could stay on the case. The proviso is that her assistant, attorney Nathan Wade, would be the sacrificial lamb and must go. He also, the day before, squashed six of the 41 counts in the indictment for “insufficient detail.” leaving room for an appeal of his ruling, which would cause further delay. Yesterday, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon kicked the judicial-can down the road by issuing an ambiguous ruling although refusing Trump’s lawyer's motion to dismiss his case. She wrote that some of Trump’s arguments deserve “serious consideration,” but no judge has ever ruled as such in similar cases. She ruled that “rather than prematurely decide now,” objections could be raised later. This sets up a further delay of the trial later during the proceedings.
Meanwhile, in New York, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was blindsided by what turned out to be a tranche of documents—some possibly related to Bragg’s hush money case – released by the Merrick Garland-led Department of Justice, which held the reported 73,000 pages of documents until 12 days before the March 25th trial date. New York Judge Juan Merchan is now faced with granting the 90-day delay asked for by Trump's lawyers or the 30-day delay Mr. Bragg is willing to grant. Splitting this baby at 60 days seems like a foregone conclusion. In the backdrop of all of this is D.C. Judge Tanya Chutkan, awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court on the frivolous assertion that a president is above the law and enjoys absolute immunity for committing a crime.
The fact that the Supreme Court is even entertaining this nonsense must warm the cockles of Vladimir Putin’s heart. Were a court to rule in favor of absolute immunity, that would mean an American president could kill an opponent, like what Putin has allegedly done to Alexei Navalny, without consequences. Trump’s lawyers already floated that idea to a three-judge United States DC appeals court panel. One of the judges, Florence Pan, inquired of Trump's attorney, John Sauer, “You’re saying a president could sell pardons, could sell military secrets, could order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?” It appears that with the tone, tenor, and absurd premise of the question, Pan fully expected an unequivocal no. Instead, Sauer answered, “He would have to be and would speedily be impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution,” Sauer said. “There is a political process that would have to occur under our Constitution.” He continued, “If there’s no impeachment ever and no conviction, then the official acts are immune. Period,” he added later.
If you look at America in the vastness of history, we are a baby. The judicial system has been the real cradle of democracy. Its rattling justice, sometimes screaming in the night, eventually is soothed by the milk of kindness. The judicial system gave us the 13th,14th, 15th, and 19th Amendments to help correct the country’s grievous faults. It has become evident that the judicial system is no longer a credible babysitter. Splitting the baby is going to destroy the basis of American life; NO MAN OR WOMAN IS ABOVE THE LAW!
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