{"id":57011,"date":"2024-10-24T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57011"},"modified":"2024-10-24T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:04:11","slug":"equal-justice-under-the-law-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57011","title":{"rendered":"Equal Justice Under The Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the talking points of the Kamala Harris supporters is that if President Trump is elected, he will put his political opponents in jail. That&#8217;s an amazing statement considering how many of Joe Biden&#8217;s political opponents Attorney General Merrick Garland has sent to jail or bankrupted on questionable charges. Recently, President Biden told New Hampshire democrats that &#8220;<span class=\"kY2IgmnCmOGjharHErah\">&#8220;we gotta <b>lock<\/b> <b>him<\/b> <b>up<\/b>,&#8221;<\/span> referring to President Trump. Who is the fascist here?<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/10\/22\/warden-reveals-steve-bannon-denied-early-release-for-home-confinement-despite-eligibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon was denied early release from prison due to \u201cinsufficient time\u201d left on his sentence, despite being eligible for home confinement, according to the prison warden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In a <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.237438\/gov.uscourts.dcd.237438.205.1_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">letter<\/a> to Bannon\u2019s attorney, Trent McCotter, Darek Puzio, who serves as the Acting Warden of the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, wrote that while Bannon had \u201cearned\u201d enough \u201cFirst Step Act\u201d time credits to be eligible for home confinement, he had \u201cinsufficient time\u201d remaining on his prison sentence for a referral and approval to be processed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steve Bannon is expected to be released from prison on October 29, after serving his full term. He is in prison for contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>An article posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saradorn\/2024\/05\/16\/house-gop-could-hold-merrick-garland-in-contempt-heres-why-he-almost-certainly-wont-face-criminal-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a> on May 16, 2024 states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Since 2008, Congress has held <a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/quick-search\/legislation?wordsPhrases=recommending+and+%22contempt+of+congress%22+&amp;wordVariants=on&amp;congressGroups%5B0%5D=0&amp;congresses%5B0%5D=118&amp;congresses%5B1%5D=117&amp;congresses%5B2%5D=116&amp;congresses%5B3%5D=115&amp;congresses%5B4%5D=114&amp;congresses%5B5%5D=113&amp;congresses%5B6%5D=112&amp;congresses%5B7%5D=111&amp;congresses%5B8%5D=110&amp;legislationNumbers=&amp;legislativeAction=108&amp;sponsor=on&amp;representative=&amp;senator=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/quick-search\/legislation?wordsPhrases=recommending+and+%22contempt+of+congress%22+&amp;wordVariants=on&amp;congressGroups%5B0%5D=0&amp;congresses%5B0%5D=118&amp;congresses%5B1%5D=117&amp;congresses%5B2%5D=116&amp;congresses%5B3%5D=115&amp;congresses%5B4%5D=114&amp;congresses%5B5%5D=113&amp;congresses%5B6%5D=112&amp;congresses%5B7%5D=111&amp;congresses%5B8%5D=110&amp;legislationNumbers=&amp;legislativeAction=108&amp;sponsor=on&amp;representative=&amp;senator=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/quick-search\/legislation?wordsPhrases=recommending+and+%22contempt+of+congress%22+&amp;wordVariants=on&amp;congressGroups%5B0%5D=0&amp;congresses%5B0%5D=118&amp;congresses%5B1%5D=117&amp;congresses%5B2%5D=116&amp;congresses%5B3%5D=115&amp;congresses%5B4%5D=114&amp;congresses%5B5%5D=113&amp;congresses%5B6%5D=112&amp;congresses%5B7%5D=111&amp;congresses%5B8%5D=110&amp;legislationNumbers=&amp;legislativeAction=108&amp;sponsor=on&amp;representative=&amp;senator=\" aria-label=\"ten individuals\">ten individuals<\/a> in contempt of Congress, and the Justice Department has only indicted two: former Trump White House advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, who were both convicted for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee in its investigation into the Capitol riots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it an incredible coincidence that the only two individuals who have been indicted for contempt of Congress and sent to jail are associates of President Trump. If you think you will be safe if Kamala Harris is elected, think again. There will be a war on ordinary citizens who do no think in ways that a Harris administration would approve of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the talking points of the Kamala Harris supporters is that if President Trump is elected, he will put his political opponents in jail. That&#8217;s an amazing statement considering how many of Joe Biden&#8217;s political opponents Attorney General Merrick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57011\">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":[10348,3294,10439,13372,11234,14367],"class_list":["post-57011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-contempt-of-congress","tag-forbes-magazine","tag-president-biden","tag-steve-bannon","tag-u-s-attorney-general-merrick-garland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011","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=57011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57021,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011\/revisions\/57021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}