{"id":49899,"date":"2023-04-04T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49899"},"modified":"2023-04-04T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:13:25","slug":"this-isnt-a-new-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49899","title":{"rendered":"This Isn’t A New Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deep state has been around for a while. I just finished reading The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe<\/span> by Donald H. Wolfe. I was genuinely shocked by some of the behavior of J. Edgar Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, and a lot of other people. J. Edgar Hoover consistently broke laws in his surveillance of American citizens and was never held accountable. The activities of some of our leading political figures of the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s were routinely kept hidden from the public with the cooperation of the media. There really isn’t anything new under the sun.<\/p>\n

As shocking as the indictment of President Trump is, that is a political trick that has been done before in a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

On Monday, The Federalist<\/a> reminded us:<\/p>\n

But in evaluating whether Bragg\u2019s charges against Trump are politically motivated, it\u2019s worth remembering that Trump is the second major GOP presidential candidate in less than a decade that has been indicted by a local Democratic district attorney. And in that case, involving former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the prosecution was redolent of corruption and naked attempts to harm Perry\u2019s national political ambitions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2014, Perry was indicted on two felony charges. The first charge was abuse of official capacity, and the second was coercion of a public servant. Perry\u2019s crime was using the veto power granted to him in the Texas Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happened was this: Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, was convicted of drunk driving and incarcerated. Working from the Travis County DA\u2019s office, Lehmberg managed the state public integrity unit, a legal office responsible for rooting out public corruption. After she refused to resign her position following a fair bit of criticism over the fact that a person in charge of rooting out public corruption should not be known for being convicted of a crime, Perry threatened to veto the public integrity unit\u2019s $7.5 million budget and eventually did veto the budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So the Travis County DA\u2019s office, the very same office where Lehmberg worked, convened a grand jury and indicted Perry. It wasn\u2019t difficult; aside from the old saying that prosecutors could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich<\/a>, Travis County is where \u201cthe People\u2019s Republic of Austin\u201d is located. It\u2019s a notoriously liberal enclave where it is easy to find a jury politically hostile to Perry, who was an otherwise popular three-term GOP governor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The outcome was predictable:<\/p>\n

As for the charges against Perry, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals eventually dismissed the charges against Perry in a 6-2 ruling. The abuse of official capacity charge was dismissed on the grounds that it violated the separation of powers in the state constitution. It was always the case that Perry had wide latitude and authority to issue a veto in this instance. \u201cThe governor\u2019s power to exercise a veto may not be circumscribed by the Legislature, by the courts, or by district attorneys,\u201d noted the ruling<\/a> by Judge Sharon Keller of the Court of Criminal Appeals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second charge, coercion of a public official, was dismissed on the grounds that it was a violation of the First Amendment to say the governor could not threaten to lawfully wield power on the grounds he was intimidating other public officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unless they are stopped, the Democrat party will continue with using the court system to interfere in elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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