Truth or Consequences: A Few Words of Praise for Andrew Weissman and Neal Katyal

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Truth or Consequences: A Few Words of Praise for Andrew Weissman and Neal Katyal
by Jaime O’Neill | May 21, 2024 - 6:35am

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Swimming against the tide of misinformation and special pleading, those of us who still think we have enough surviving brain cells with which sort out truth from fiction must certainly be grateful for the work of those whose names, faces, probity, and deep respect for the profession of the law stand in such stark contrast to those who have forgotten or never understood what the rule of law was supposed to be all about. In case you haven't already done so for yourself, I'll call on you to remember some ignoble scourges of the legal profession. Think of Roy Cohen, for instance, and think of Michael Cohen, too, if that makes you feel better, though it shouldn't. Think of the truly despicable Bill Barr, and think of all those who lied their way onto the Supreme Court when they said they believed that Roe v. Wade was "settled law." Think of Clarence Thomas taking refuge behind the race card when he said that he was suffering a "high-tech lynching" during his confirmation hearings, confronted by former female employees about his quite clear habit of sexual harassment in the work place. Think of Alito, of course, who gives new meaning to the words "crooked lawyer," or the image of lawyers as people inclined to hide the truth, not reveal it. Think of Kavanaugh, the guy who likes beer, but can get pretty unjudicial when the truth about his past behavior comes back to haunt him and makes him cry like a baby.

There are lots of such eager truth deniers in the legal system, of course, as in most any profession. But these days so many more of them have risen to notoriety and prominence, appointed to courts from high to low by wily long-con Republicans laying groundwork for a government in which bias is built in, where the law serves power and money without apology, where it is retributive, bent on oppressing any opposition, and where it and they cannot be appealed. We know what such governments look like, and we know what drives the game they play. It's where show trials are staged when the outcome is clear and the verdicts decided before the trials begin, where the accused are convicted in absentia or en masse.

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But if you still have enough dispassionate non-partisanship in your soul to seek the truth and know it when you hear it, or to believe a sound argument when it's offered, it will be harder for you to fall in line behind the power of expensively crafted lies and misrepresentations of reality.

And that alone will lead you away from people like Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge who, if she was an honest broker, would have recused herself from sitting in judgment of the guy who appointed her precisely for the kind of thing she is doing now, which is not to administer justice, but to deny it when required not by truth, but by political and personal preference.

If, however, you just can't see any difference between her and people like Andrew Weissman and/or Barbara McQuade, it would be hard to believe you're paying attention at all. If you cling to the idea that trials like the one going on in New York regarding election interference and pay offs to a woman in exchange for her silence, and if you think lawyers like Alina Habba command more respect than lawyers like Jack Smith, then you probably think Mr. Potter is the hero of It's a Wonderful Life, and George Bailey is the villain, a wimpy and whiny liberal that the angel sent to save him should have left to drown.

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1. We can't normalize what is happening in America.

Germany arrested coup plotters before they took action and in 1 year and 4 months they are sitting in a courtroom. All of the plotters and planners.

Our DOJ has not arrested 1 coup plotter even after a bloody attack on our Capitol.

Is the Federalist Society a terrorist organization? The Director of the FBI is a member of the Federalist Society.
Our Attorney General monitored 11 Federalist Society events.

Is the Heritage Foundation a terrorist organization. It is behind Project 2025 which intends to bring down our democracy. Would Germany at least be investigating the Heritage Foundation, should Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray?

[magicarpet]

3. The absurdity becomes normal.

Then the next absurdity becomes normal,... and so on and so on ad nauseum.

This is how you cause a breakdown in the institutions of a functional democracy.

This opens the floodgates that enables Fascism to prosper and eventually prevail so it can over run and decimate American Democracy and usher it directly to the trash heap.

A Fascist Khrishtun Theocracy is their ambition and end goal. We must impede this endeavor where ever and when ever we possibly can or risk losing it all.

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2. Katyal and Weismann have been amazing