{"id":33659,"date":"2018-06-17T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33659"},"modified":"2018-06-17T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T19:58:28","slug":"abusing-our-justice-system-for-political-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33659","title":{"rendered":"Abusing Our Justice System For Political Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=1&amp;v=7nisvyQ7Kn8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> video is from the Tucker Carlson Show:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7nisvyQ7Kn8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Tucker: Let\u2019s be real. Paul Manafort is jail tonight because prosecutors want him to testify against President Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a total perversion of our justice system. Someone needs to rein in this abuse. Where are the judges?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s look at the judge who agreed to send Paul Manafort to jail.<\/p>\n<p>In November of last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-11-02\/trump-s-ex-campaign-chief-faces-obama-appointee-on-bench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> posted an article about U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Earlier this year, for instance, she dismissed a lawsuit filed by the parents of two of the four Americans who died at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, seeking to hold Trump\u2019s election opponent Hillary Clinton responsible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"hardwall\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-position=\"3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"softwall\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-position=\"3\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>And four years ago, <a title=\"House to Blame in Fast and Furious Case Delay, Judge Says (2)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2013-10-03\/house-to-blame-in-fast-and-furious-case-delay-judge-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she sided<\/a> with the Obama administration request and put on hold a lawsuit by House Republicans demanding papers related to former Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s botched Fast-and-Furious gun-tracking operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;It\u2019s rare for judges to hold white-collar offenders behind bars before a trial or guilty plea &#8212; even Bernard Madoff was allowed to remain free on a $10 million bond &#8212; but it happens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judge Jackson was appointed by President Obama in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following YouTube video is from the Tucker Carlson Show: Tucker: Let\u2019s be real. Paul Manafort is jail tonight because prosecutors want him to testify against President Trump. This is a total perversion of our justice system. Someone needs to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3947,5491,270,2655,10982,2212],"class_list":["post-33659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-benghazi","tag-bloomberg","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-jackson","tag-paul-manafort","tag-tucker-carlson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33661,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659\/revisions\/33661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}