Judge, To Resuscitate Our Dying Constitution, LOCK HIM UP!
Imagine an insanely improbable situation:
A white collar criminal's lawyer and C.F.O. have been given sentences of three years and five months, respectively, in an election fraud case about ttheir boss's first run for the presidency.
Our criminal -- let's call him "Johnny "-- is aided by the most creative Supreme Court in the history of humanity. Unlike the State Supreme Court which ruled Johnny was barred from seeking office by the 14th Amendment, the federales say "We don't got to show you no estinkin precedents, we're legislating here! Anything older than 100 years don't count." Or words to that effect.
The lawyer and the accountant serve their time in pokey while their boss is convicted of 34 felony counts by his peers, but is given a "get out of jail" pass to continue his campaign for Viceroy, which he wins.
So now we have two employes who've been locked up for following Johnny''s orders, while he hopes to escape every negative result.
We know Johnny can't read anything longer than a Hitler speech , but maybe one of his underpaid lawyers might read a little Roman history to him at bedtime.
Then he might understand why republics can't abide ambitious psychopaths who storm the Capitol with mobs under their orders rather than under the law.
It's nothing personal.
There have been rumors Johnny will be accorded a delayed sentence in his state conviction, jn the hope he'll drop dead before his federal term of office expires. That would present at least two constitutional dilemmas
1. "Equal justice under law" is a very nice sentiment upon the pediment of a palace of politicians in the Capital.
If johnny receives anything less than a 3 year, 5 month sentence, as the instigator of ALL the offences, the slogan means less than "thoughts and prayers" in the aftermath of the latest slaughter of our innocence
2. Ours is supposed to be a federal republic. If the state of New York is barred from imposing its sentence on Johnny because he's special in a national government sense, federalism is at long last slain by tthe absurdity of imperial presidency.
As there is no more than a cosmetic effect on the presidency in having a president serve time in both his office and the pokey, the effect of seeing the State of the Union delivered from a New York jail cell could only be healthful.
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