Now that Hunter Biden and President Trump have both been convicted of crimes with which they never should have been charged, maybe it’s time for a truce.
The chief difference is that Hunter is 100% guilty of a real crime; while Trump was a fake conviction based on a non-existent imaginary and fabricated "crime". No comparison at all. Hunter will walk, Trump will get jail time.
The Hunter case was a Democrat way of trying to show that justice is true and not partisan, basically trying to justify Trump's conviction as "real" non-partisan justice. It's all a political set-up.
"Let’s begin with an undisputed fact. Neither Biden nor Trump would ever have been prosecuted, but for their names."
Is this really the case, Alan? The Trump case is cut and dried -- there is no other person who would be charged with a felony for paying off his one-night-stand 9 years ago. However, are other career drug addicts who attempt to buy guns prosecuted? I don't know, but I hope so.
"Trump was prosecuted by a Democratic district attorney in order to influence the election. Then Biden had to be subjected to a special prosecutor to avoid the election being influenced"
You are actually making my case for me here. Trump was prosecuted to keep him from winning an election against Joe Biden. Hunter was prosecuted because he's politically inconvenient to Joe Biden's re-election. The commonality is the Democratic Party. Republicans aren't the ones engaging in lawfare.
"It is time to end this tit for tat misuse of the legal system."
Overall, I agree. Because while Republicans aren't doing it yet (and don't want to), if this persists, they won't have a choice. Conservative cities can elect DAs who will weaponize the law too.
As you know, I deeply respect you and have followed you since I was a kid (I'm now a lawyer). Calling for a "cease fire" at this time is analogous to calling for an immediate cease fire and the embracing of the ever illusory 2-state solution in Israel . You can't stop shooting when you know the other side won't stop shooting until you're destroyed. The insane and unfathomably dangerous open border policy pimped by the Dems convinced me of the nefarious intent of the Democrat party. The goal appears to be to disenfranchise the voting public, at our national peril, by flooding the country with what they believe will be guaranteed "democrat" votes they hope will make up for their middle class, working poor, and minority hemorrhaging post Trump. Please, tell me I'm wrong.
You fail to listen in between the lines. Dershowitz wants territorial expansion because that is what the current Israeli elite wants, not two states. But espousing expansion would cause much of his audience to disappear. So he says 2 States should happen some time in the very indefinite sciencefiction future. There will always be convenient, or even government-generated, excuses to delay implementation after 50, then 100, then 200, then 1000 years. The Israeli elite will simply cite adverse possession over long periods and increasing Jewish settlements in both population and land areas as justifying Lebenstraum annexation. The only issue is whether Israell will amend the Nation-State Law to formally mandate an Apartheid state structure in order to keep the equally sized non-Jewish population disenfranchised or whether Ben Gvir's dream of a "voluntary" expatriation of at least most of the surviving Palestinians can be arranged and encouraged, ideally with American implementation aid. AIPAC owns Congress and the President, so American help is more than possible. Why can't 3 or 4 million Palestinians be shipped to Eagle Pass and airlifted to Manhattan, where they can live in their tents on the street corners and in parks around Dershowitz's swanky ,memento-laden apartment? But would the Palestinians vote for Democrats? Should America also disenfranchise them? Would that then be precedent for disenfranchising Blacks? Maybe the Palestinians should instead be shipped to Rwanda or Russia's Jewish Automous Area, where Stalin found out no Ashkenazis were willing to live. How about Antarctica?
Agreed. And this applies to many people who have already been prosecuted or are sitting in jail waiting to be prosecuted. And the disproportionality of sentencing (rapists can get no jail time while praying can get one 4 years in jail),
The weaponization of the justice system, Lawfare, although not new, has reached a level I have not seen in my lifetime. But is it the worse it has been in the history of the USA?
Our country may not be able to withstand this. Democrats need to knock it off. But they are blood-thirsty bullies who no longer hold the values they claim they hold.
I agree with nearly everything, except that Mayorkas should be impeached for not observing the security of the borders. Additionally, it is the Biden’s negligent policies that makes Mayorkas an accomplice. They both should be impeached!
The judge in the Hunter Biden case last month sentenced an individual convicted of the same crime as Hunter Biden to one year in prison. The optics suggest equal treatment under the law.
The law against possession of a firearm by someone who is "addicted to, or an unlawful user of, a controlled substance," has been on the books since 1968. This may surprise Professor Dershowitz, but the "prohibited possessor section" of the 1968 Gun Control Act has been used against generally law-abiding gun owners (as opposed to violent criminals) more often than not. That is why most gun owners oppose the ever-more restrictive gun laws proposed by the Left: they are used to victimize the law-abiding but have absolutely no effect on crime, nor on criminals.
Shame on you professor, you should know better. To me your articles sounds like Hamas asking for a ceasefire on October 8th. There is no equivalency here between the two prosecutions. This is not both sides overreaching; both prosecutions were brought by the same group. There has not been any retribution or escalation to justify asking that all side put down their arms. You should instead be scolding the one group that is sponsoring all of the lawfare.
An interesting question might be, was Hunter offered up as a scapegoat? In which case some fools might scream, "enough already!" More likely, the Hunter prosecution is a substitute for the more heinous crimes that he should be prosecuted for, such as influence peddling.
Either way I'm disappointed for you for being so gullible. Makes me question the rest of your writing.
The pyramiding of charges also opens the door to abuse. When charges like conspiracy, wire fraud, and racketeering can extend a minor crime to decades in prison, prosecutors have too much power to prosecute selectively..
I wish it were possible, but does anyone believe the DNC will change it's cutthroat tactics? Does anyone think they'll abide by a truce? When conservatives take the high road; or turn the other cheek, they become noble losers. It's clear (to me) that the modern DNC has declared guerilla-style political warfare on any and all opponents -including conservative citizens who they label "Right Wing Extremists". They'll stop at absolutely Nothing in their lust for power, and they're dangerously close one-party rule. Their deep state thugs run Every federal agency, and they're proposing outrageous things like abolishing the electoral college, "packing" the supreme court, even removing Secret Service protection from their political opponents. Consider the millions in illicit income the Biden family has received from our enemies -not to mention the tax evasion on those millions. Should they be given a free pass for these blatant crimes?
Agreed. Losing with your principles intact is still losing. Sometimes the only way to show the other side the error of their ways is to use their own ways against them.
I agree except on one point in particular. Hunter Biden did break the law and is clearly guilty. I’m not sure about Mayorkas, but it’s clear that neither he nor Biden have enforced the laws we already have regarding illegal immigration
You are certainly correct that it’s time to stop the lawfare.
Federal, State Officials Aiding Criminal Misconduct, Corruption, Injustice and Sexual Abuse "Under Color of Law"
Eighty traffic stops in four years. Five robberies. Home invasion and death threats by armed Sheriff Deputies with AR-15s and shotguns pointed at my head and at my dog "Boomer's" head while two young children were mere feet away on a second floor. False arrest. False imprisonment.
Actionable evidence including recordings, documents, hundreds of witnesses contact information with no conflicts of interest esp. regarding crimes against children involving rape and abuse.
Only EXTERNAL demands might drive long-overdue official accountability, investigation, oversight, an end to abuses, brutality, crimes of a community & local, State & Federal corruption that would shock most Americans. It sounds unbelievable, but is very much real in Wilmington N.C.
Though provided irrefutable almost certainly admissible evidence of criminal activities involving:
U.S. Department of Justice & F.B.I. involvement in extensive criminal misconduct by Corrupt North Carolina officials including sexual abuses of children, theft of Federal funds, lynching's, retaliatory murders, torture, violence & retribution against child victims, families & the few who have dared discuss horrific abuses suffered & retaliation by officials, prosecutors & bribed media.
This "Culture of Corruption," once pursued, is now Assisted, Protected by the U.S. DOJ, FBI USAO despite vast evidence & growing #s of victims of violent criminal acts that any remotely moral person would conclude:
CONGRESS MUST HOLD THESE FEDERAL OFFICIALS AND THE STATE AND LOCAL SADISTIC CRIMINALS OFFICIALLY PROTECTED TO ACCOUNT.
NO OFFICIAL WHO ENGAGES IN SUCH EVIL SHOULD EVER BE MAINTAINED OR SUPPORTED IN OR ALLOWED TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE OR PRACTICE LAW EVER.
Well, Pollyana, Kumbaya! " Can't we all get along? - in the spirit of Rodney King? It's glorious lawfare against the right and DJT that has produced the backlash that will get him enough new votes this time to overcome all the massive voter and election fraud already underway with the Demonrats. The only other better state of affairs right now would be a good shooting civil war instead - where the righteous get to fight bake. The way you get rid of lawfare is to completely exterminate the left. Take a lesson from BiBi and the IDF exterminating Hamas and the rest of the refuse. The left is just the cowardly pansy side of American terrorism. After Trump gets in and sanity is restored - exterminate all that living excrement once and for all. AD - you've never been very savvy. I don't respect you at all. You are an East Coast secular Jew - a Democrat - just like all of my maternal ancestry back east. They are pathetically ignorant too. You've been on the political wrong side of everything all your life. Now you want to best Neville Chamberlain as the top Appeasement Fool of the century.
When the blue team argues for the restoration of the "rule of law," they don't mean, "We will be ruled by our laws." They mean, "When we rule, the law is whatever we say it is."
Laurence Tribe is prototypical. Just making shit up to fit the dialogue in his head.
Note: This isn't going to change. Them people truly believe that they are the smart ones, and that they know better how other people should live, and even think.
It underscores the need to declare the Republican and Democrat parties null and void. They aren't branches of government and have no more right to control government than the Knights of Columbus and the Rotary club.
The chief difference is that Hunter is 100% guilty of a real crime; while Trump was a fake conviction based on a non-existent imaginary and fabricated "crime". No comparison at all. Hunter will walk, Trump will get jail time.
The Hunter case was a Democrat way of trying to show that justice is true and not partisan, basically trying to justify Trump's conviction as "real" non-partisan justice. It's all a political set-up.
"Let’s begin with an undisputed fact. Neither Biden nor Trump would ever have been prosecuted, but for their names."
Is this really the case, Alan? The Trump case is cut and dried -- there is no other person who would be charged with a felony for paying off his one-night-stand 9 years ago. However, are other career drug addicts who attempt to buy guns prosecuted? I don't know, but I hope so.
"Trump was prosecuted by a Democratic district attorney in order to influence the election. Then Biden had to be subjected to a special prosecutor to avoid the election being influenced"
You are actually making my case for me here. Trump was prosecuted to keep him from winning an election against Joe Biden. Hunter was prosecuted because he's politically inconvenient to Joe Biden's re-election. The commonality is the Democratic Party. Republicans aren't the ones engaging in lawfare.
"It is time to end this tit for tat misuse of the legal system."
Overall, I agree. Because while Republicans aren't doing it yet (and don't want to), if this persists, they won't have a choice. Conservative cities can elect DAs who will weaponize the law too.
No, Hunter Biden was appropriately charged for a real offense.
As you know, I deeply respect you and have followed you since I was a kid (I'm now a lawyer). Calling for a "cease fire" at this time is analogous to calling for an immediate cease fire and the embracing of the ever illusory 2-state solution in Israel . You can't stop shooting when you know the other side won't stop shooting until you're destroyed. The insane and unfathomably dangerous open border policy pimped by the Dems convinced me of the nefarious intent of the Democrat party. The goal appears to be to disenfranchise the voting public, at our national peril, by flooding the country with what they believe will be guaranteed "democrat" votes they hope will make up for their middle class, working poor, and minority hemorrhaging post Trump. Please, tell me I'm wrong.
You fail to listen in between the lines. Dershowitz wants territorial expansion because that is what the current Israeli elite wants, not two states. But espousing expansion would cause much of his audience to disappear. So he says 2 States should happen some time in the very indefinite sciencefiction future. There will always be convenient, or even government-generated, excuses to delay implementation after 50, then 100, then 200, then 1000 years. The Israeli elite will simply cite adverse possession over long periods and increasing Jewish settlements in both population and land areas as justifying Lebenstraum annexation. The only issue is whether Israell will amend the Nation-State Law to formally mandate an Apartheid state structure in order to keep the equally sized non-Jewish population disenfranchised or whether Ben Gvir's dream of a "voluntary" expatriation of at least most of the surviving Palestinians can be arranged and encouraged, ideally with American implementation aid. AIPAC owns Congress and the President, so American help is more than possible. Why can't 3 or 4 million Palestinians be shipped to Eagle Pass and airlifted to Manhattan, where they can live in their tents on the street corners and in parks around Dershowitz's swanky ,memento-laden apartment? But would the Palestinians vote for Democrats? Should America also disenfranchise them? Would that then be precedent for disenfranchising Blacks? Maybe the Palestinians should instead be shipped to Rwanda or Russia's Jewish Automous Area, where Stalin found out no Ashkenazis were willing to live. How about Antarctica?
Agreed. And this applies to many people who have already been prosecuted or are sitting in jail waiting to be prosecuted. And the disproportionality of sentencing (rapists can get no jail time while praying can get one 4 years in jail),
The weaponization of the justice system, Lawfare, although not new, has reached a level I have not seen in my lifetime. But is it the worse it has been in the history of the USA?
Our country may not be able to withstand this. Democrats need to knock it off. But they are blood-thirsty bullies who no longer hold the values they claim they hold.
I agree with nearly everything, except that Mayorkas should be impeached for not observing the security of the borders. Additionally, it is the Biden’s negligent policies that makes Mayorkas an accomplice. They both should be impeached!
The judge in the Hunter Biden case last month sentenced an individual convicted of the same crime as Hunter Biden to one year in prison. The optics suggest equal treatment under the law.
The law against possession of a firearm by someone who is "addicted to, or an unlawful user of, a controlled substance," has been on the books since 1968. This may surprise Professor Dershowitz, but the "prohibited possessor section" of the 1968 Gun Control Act has been used against generally law-abiding gun owners (as opposed to violent criminals) more often than not. That is why most gun owners oppose the ever-more restrictive gun laws proposed by the Left: they are used to victimize the law-abiding but have absolutely no effect on crime, nor on criminals.
Shame on you professor, you should know better. To me your articles sounds like Hamas asking for a ceasefire on October 8th. There is no equivalency here between the two prosecutions. This is not both sides overreaching; both prosecutions were brought by the same group. There has not been any retribution or escalation to justify asking that all side put down their arms. You should instead be scolding the one group that is sponsoring all of the lawfare.
An interesting question might be, was Hunter offered up as a scapegoat? In which case some fools might scream, "enough already!" More likely, the Hunter prosecution is a substitute for the more heinous crimes that he should be prosecuted for, such as influence peddling.
Either way I'm disappointed for you for being so gullible. Makes me question the rest of your writing.
The pyramiding of charges also opens the door to abuse. When charges like conspiracy, wire fraud, and racketeering can extend a minor crime to decades in prison, prosecutors have too much power to prosecute selectively..
I wish it were possible, but does anyone believe the DNC will change it's cutthroat tactics? Does anyone think they'll abide by a truce? When conservatives take the high road; or turn the other cheek, they become noble losers. It's clear (to me) that the modern DNC has declared guerilla-style political warfare on any and all opponents -including conservative citizens who they label "Right Wing Extremists". They'll stop at absolutely Nothing in their lust for power, and they're dangerously close one-party rule. Their deep state thugs run Every federal agency, and they're proposing outrageous things like abolishing the electoral college, "packing" the supreme court, even removing Secret Service protection from their political opponents. Consider the millions in illicit income the Biden family has received from our enemies -not to mention the tax evasion on those millions. Should they be given a free pass for these blatant crimes?
Agreed. Losing with your principles intact is still losing. Sometimes the only way to show the other side the error of their ways is to use their own ways against them.
I agree except on one point in particular. Hunter Biden did break the law and is clearly guilty. I’m not sure about Mayorkas, but it’s clear that neither he nor Biden have enforced the laws we already have regarding illegal immigration
You are certainly correct that it’s time to stop the lawfare.
https://justice4all.substack.com/p/federal-state-officials-aiding-criminal-662
Federal, State Officials Aiding Criminal Misconduct, Corruption, Injustice and Sexual Abuse "Under Color of Law"
Eighty traffic stops in four years. Five robberies. Home invasion and death threats by armed Sheriff Deputies with AR-15s and shotguns pointed at my head and at my dog "Boomer's" head while two young children were mere feet away on a second floor. False arrest. False imprisonment.
Actionable evidence including recordings, documents, hundreds of witnesses contact information with no conflicts of interest esp. regarding crimes against children involving rape and abuse.
Only EXTERNAL demands might drive long-overdue official accountability, investigation, oversight, an end to abuses, brutality, crimes of a community & local, State & Federal corruption that would shock most Americans. It sounds unbelievable, but is very much real in Wilmington N.C.
Though provided irrefutable almost certainly admissible evidence of criminal activities involving:
U.S. Department of Justice & F.B.I. involvement in extensive criminal misconduct by Corrupt North Carolina officials including sexual abuses of children, theft of Federal funds, lynching's, retaliatory murders, torture, violence & retribution against child victims, families & the few who have dared discuss horrific abuses suffered & retaliation by officials, prosecutors & bribed media.
This "Culture of Corruption," once pursued, is now Assisted, Protected by the U.S. DOJ, FBI USAO despite vast evidence & growing #s of victims of violent criminal acts that any remotely moral person would conclude:
CONGRESS MUST HOLD THESE FEDERAL OFFICIALS AND THE STATE AND LOCAL SADISTIC CRIMINALS OFFICIALLY PROTECTED TO ACCOUNT.
NO OFFICIAL WHO ENGAGES IN SUCH EVIL SHOULD EVER BE MAINTAINED OR SUPPORTED IN OR ALLOWED TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE OR PRACTICE LAW EVER.
https://justice4all.substack.com/p/federal-state-officials-aiding-criminal-662
Well, Pollyana, Kumbaya! " Can't we all get along? - in the spirit of Rodney King? It's glorious lawfare against the right and DJT that has produced the backlash that will get him enough new votes this time to overcome all the massive voter and election fraud already underway with the Demonrats. The only other better state of affairs right now would be a good shooting civil war instead - where the righteous get to fight bake. The way you get rid of lawfare is to completely exterminate the left. Take a lesson from BiBi and the IDF exterminating Hamas and the rest of the refuse. The left is just the cowardly pansy side of American terrorism. After Trump gets in and sanity is restored - exterminate all that living excrement once and for all. AD - you've never been very savvy. I don't respect you at all. You are an East Coast secular Jew - a Democrat - just like all of my maternal ancestry back east. They are pathetically ignorant too. You've been on the political wrong side of everything all your life. Now you want to best Neville Chamberlain as the top Appeasement Fool of the century.
You're missing the dichotomy.
When the blue team argues for the restoration of the "rule of law," they don't mean, "We will be ruled by our laws." They mean, "When we rule, the law is whatever we say it is."
Laurence Tribe is prototypical. Just making shit up to fit the dialogue in his head.
Note: This isn't going to change. Them people truly believe that they are the smart ones, and that they know better how other people should live, and even think.
It underscores the need to declare the Republican and Democrat parties null and void. They aren't branches of government and have no more right to control government than the Knights of Columbus and the Rotary club.