Trump’s latest approach to Dissens

Imagine this series of events occurred in a foreign country: a public prosecutor who is the most remarkable as the former personal lawyer of the president and is not legally confirmed by a member of the opposition party with serious crimes based on exaggerated evidence, and then does not announce it on a government platform, but on the social media site, the friend of the president and is owned by the President’s friend and friend of the President. What would outsiders conclude about the strength of democracy and the rule of law in this country?

Yesterday, the preliminary US lawyer of New Jersey Alina Habba announced that she had calculated the representative Lamonica Mciver, a democrat to which the district includes the city of Newark. According to reports, McIver in Delaney Hall, a privately operated immigration center in Newark, is exposed to several criminal charges in connection with an incident in the Delaney Hall. Mayor Ras Baraka claims that the prison operated without a certificate of the certificate of occupancy, and the city’s officials accepted violations of code. Baraka, who visited repeatedly and demanded access, was blocked by the entry.

On May 9, Baraka visited again, this time with three congress members, including Mciver. He was initially invited through a goal, but then asked what he did. After kicking outside, federal agents pursued him for public property. A chaotic scrum followed and Baraka was arrested. Although federal official Baraka mocked for a political stunt, this was a stunt of his own, and the indictment against Baraka never seemed to stay.

In fact, Habba dropped it yesterday and instead charged against Mciver. You can watch the videos and decide yourself – Mciver is in the red blazer – but if you call this an attack, it is a big route. As an agent and politician, Mciver joins an officer who opposes and hardly reacts. (People are sometimes accused of having attacked the police because of no more random contact, even if no reasonable layperson had determined what happened as “attack”) implicitly recognized Habba in her explanation that she “continued to resolve these problems without the education of the federal government being fulfilled.

It is difficult to interpret this as something other than an attempt to punish criticism and intimidate democrats. The public prosecutor’s office, including those in the opposition party, is not naturally inappropriate – numerous politicians break against the law – but the circumstances here require a close examination. (Mciver denies an attack; her lawyer called the charges “spectacularly inappropriate”.)

One could grant the charges more advantages of doubt unless Donald Trump’s open wish to transform the Ministry of Justice into an instrument of political retaliation, or his previous records of the downplaying of attacks against law enforcement. The President has released career lawyers, revoked the security checks of his critics and, as a FBI director, installed a man who once threatened to “come” from Trump. Doj has opened an investigation by the leading democratic fundraising platform in shaky rooms. Trump chose a US lawyer for the District of Columbia, who had crossed his borders as he served for the time being that even Republican senators could not endure him. Instead, Trump appointed him head of a Doj weapon working group that was unintentionally unveiled. The Ministry of Justice received an indictment against a judge in Wisconsin for the disability of immigration liability (she did not believe in), and Attorney General Pam Bondi expressly described the indictment as a warning to other judges who could make the administration.

Consideration of two analog cases offers more reason to treat the indictment against Mciver as political intimidation. One is another incident in which a member of the congress, Florida Republican Cory Mills is involved. In February, the police in DC responded to a call, in which a woman who was referred to in police reports as “important” by Mills was freshly injured, and the police listened to Mills to lie on the phone about a discussion. (Both Mills and the woman have said since then that there is no violence.) The US lawyer for DC rejected the case.

The second is January 6, 2021, the uprising in the Capitol. The Ministry of Justice has submitted cases against rioters, released prosecutors who are involved in such cases, and excused some people who were sentenced to prison, including those who injured the police. This week the news turned out that the Ministry of Justice of the family of Ashli ​​Babbitt, a woman, a woman who was fatally shot by the Capitol police, is about to storm the lobby of the speaker’s Capitol. These are not the actions of an administration with a serious obligation to defend the federal prosecution officer.

After the incident of May 9th in the immigration center, the democratic building warned Hakeem Jeffries the government of punishing one of the congress members present. “This is a red line. It’s a red line, it is very clear,” he said. Now the administration has exceeded this line by loading Lamonica Mciver. As with many movements from Trump, it is a test of the system: How will dishes, congress and above all the American people react? If you allow Trump to be successful, he will have taken a big step to make contradiction illegal.

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