The Constitution Never Promised You the Rose Garden

We now live in a country where there really, truly are political prisoners and one famous political defendant. No reasonable person can look at what has happened to Donald Trump, the Trump periphery, and the J6 people and not conclude that there have been many, many unconstitutional selective prosecutions based on people’s political leanings.

We have a Constitutional right to Equal Protection, and while judges and lawyers don’t like to talk about it, it can, and should, be used to bar selective prosecution. Corruption is the reason why this defense is rarely used. The people who run the system want to be able to let people they favor go. This starts with cops and runs through prosecutors all the way up through the levels of the judicial system.

“He’s a good student who got a little rowdy, and she was a slut anyway.” “He comes from a good family.” “Our university’s football team really needs him.” “His dad was the Vice President.” “We are prosecuting too many black men.”

“Trump committed more crimes than he did.”

I’m not making this defense up. I discovered it while doing legal research on a case here in Florida.

If we started focusing on Equal Protection in the courts, the system would explode. A lot of rich white kids would go to prison. So would a lot of minority defendants from blue cities. A lot of cops would go to prison for beating their wives.

Male athletes…forget it. The NFL and NBA would be full of Jews and Asians, and people in hell would be wearing mittens.

Abuse of discretion is not going away, because the people who run the system like it. It gives them power they were never intended to have. For this reason, Equal Protection will continue to be denied.

Given that this is true, I am thinking about the pain leftists will probably have to endure over the coming year. They have extremely low pain thresholds, losing their composure and having full-blown fits over minor and even fictional suffering, so when a year of real misery caused by multiple collisions with reality starts to unfold, the perpetually pampered class may give us a spectacle future generations will find hard to believe actually happened.

I’ll explain my thoughts.

Biden is just about certain to lose. He is almost certain to be the Democrat candidate. He is too powerful to be pushed out of the race, and he is too crazy, mean, and conceited to bow out willingly.

If Biden loses, obviously, Trump will win, and Trump will bring a Vice President who has agreed in advance to pardon him.

If Trump is inaugurated, he will pardon himself when needed. If he is not able to pardon himself, his VP will pardon him. These things are given.

If Trump self-pardons, there will be a battle to determine whether his action is legal.

If the courts say he can do it, he will remain in office without problems. If the courts disagree, his Vice President will take over and pardon him.

Here’s the question no one is asking: if Trump’s Vice President pardons Trump, can Trump resume office? Is it possible a Vice President would have to step down after pardoning Trump?

The Constitution hasn’t given us the best guidance.

It’s pretty clear a president can’t pardon himself if he is convicted by the Senate after an impeachment, because it would serve no purpose for the Constitution to provide for impeachment and trial if the president could just pardon himself. It’s not clear that he can’t pardon himself if he is convicted by a court.

Can he be impeached after a pardon, because he has been convicted of a crime? I assume so. If that’s true, Trump could be run out of office regardless of a preexisting pardon. That would require a different House and Senate, though.

Congress is not part of the court system. It would be odd if Congress were barred from impeaching a person the president had pardoned, simply because of the pardon.

Double jeopardy wouldn’t be a problem. The Double Jeopardy Clause only applies to cases where a person can be subjected to certain punishments, and being thrown out of office is not one of them.

Impeachment and Senate trial were conceived with second prosecutions in mind.

I believe a Biden victory is the only hope of preventing hundreds of millions of leftists from foaming at the mouth and rolling on the ground in public. They clearly agree, whether they have thought about it or not, because on news networks and websites, they are constantly reacting to a potential Trump win as though it were a requirement that they all be boiled in oil.

Another question: how do leftists expect to prevent Trump from assuming office in the first place? They can’t keep him off the ballot. I may be wrong, but I believe all that leaves is impeachment and Senate trial. I don’t see any way for leftists to prevent Trump from being inaugurated. I don’t even know if it’s possible to impeach a president-elect.

The Bragg case is garbage and will not succeed on appeal. Same for the James case. The Georgia case is looking bad for the prosecution. The Florida document case is a great example of selective prosecution, but it may result in some kind of conviction, and it will definitely have to go through a long appeal process.

I think they’ll have to let him assume office.

Sooner or later, a big percentage of leftists will realize Biden is going to put Trump in office. He is repeating the selfish choices of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turned out to be a savior of the much-hated unborn. What will they do? I’m sure they will react with maturity and great respect for the legal and democratic processes. As always.

Obvious humor aside, it seems likely they may go after Biden with their usual infantile shenanigans. Raising hell at his rare, scripted appearances. Lying down in front of his motorcade. Picketing his beach house. Maybe a few will set themselves on fire outside the White House.

When I was a kid, my poisonous leftist teachers taught me that Henry David Thoreau provided us with justification for civil disobedience. That was stupid. Civil disobedience made sense in Tianenmen Square, but here in the USA, we have things called voting booths, and we should be extremely, extremely reluctant to sidestep the process we all pretend to revere.

Civil disobedience is not noble or admirable. It’s disgraceful and very dangerous. Civil disobedience is the voting booth of the unprincipled brat who doesn’t respect anyone else’s rights. Naturally, leftists are addicted to it. Their addiction has caused a lot of riots, deaths, and arson during the last few years.

They are conditioned to rage and pout, and their conniptions vary in proportion to their always-hyperbolic outrage, so if they go after Biden, we should expect some remarkable and groundbreaking menacing of a sitting president and his family.

This world is a barrel of gunpowder waiting for a spark. It’s too bad there is no reasoning with leftists. Instead we will just have to hope they don’t turn our entire national landscape into one big teen takeover.