After the lawyers, the judges, the free-thinkers ...
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist
“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” It’s safe to assume Donald Trump is as unfamiliar with Shakespeare as he is with the teachings of Jesus, but he’s taken that proposition to heart.
His Mafia-style extortion of protection money from some of America’s largest and, until a few days ago, most respected law firms has been of a single purpose: to rob people who oppose him of legal representation. It’s working (tinyurl.com/scarelaw4u). And it’s part of a larger plan, to block all avenues of escape from his authoritarian takeover of America.
Nor is it just lawyers: It’s the entire justice system. Through AG Pam Bondi and FBI head Kash Patel, he already controls the Department of Justice. Panegyric Pam refuses to investigate the perpetrators of that security breach by Trump’s unqualified and incompetent clowns at the Defense Department. And she just ended an ongoing lawsuit filed under President Biden that sought to overturn a Georgia voting restriction deemed to specifically target Black voters. She called the lawsuit, not the law, “an attempt to divide us.” And Trump just fired career prosecutors who’d been looking into his or his friends’ crimes (Daily Beast: tinyurl.com/afriend2u).
It doesn’t stop there, of course. Trump wants to be rid of all judges who rule against him; true to form, Holy Mike Johnson, who loves everything about America except for everything about it, proposed getting rid of courts altogether; the ones who stand for the law (Esquire: tinyurl.com/nocourts4u). J.D. Vance and Elon Musk have been calling for judicial impeachments since before Vance embarrassed his way to Greenland and Tesla stock tanked.
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