Reblogged:Will Independents Save the GOP From Itself?

[Jon Letendre]

A Stalinist nightmare in New York State, by STEVEN CALABRESI

"Ms. James and Judge Engeron have essentially turned a vaguely worded New York State law into a modern day Bill of Attainder targeted at Donald Trump both for political gain and because they despise his political views and desperately want to call his truthfulness into question as he runs for President of the United States inn 2024.  In doing this, the have violated Trump's First Amendment right to freedom of speech and of the press; his Fifth Amendment right not to be deprived of liberty or property without due process of law; his Fifth Amendment right not to have property taken away from him except for a pubic use with just compensation being paid; his Eighth Amendment right not to be made to pay an excessive fine; his Article IV, Section 2 right as a citizen of Florida to do make and enforce contracts in New York on the same terms as are other New Yorkers; and his Fourteenth Amendment right to be free to pursue an occupation without unnecessary and burdensome regulation."

President Trump's Kafkaesque Civil Trial in New York State (reason.com)

The ball will really get rolling when they imprison him and then Epstein him there. Won't be long, now.

Future Presidents will have a field day with this new ethos and precedent of weaponizing the courts to destroy leading opposition candidates. Anything to avoid four more years of no war, a tamed Putin, middle east peace treaties, $1.50 gas, right?