Happy Constitution Day! Enjoy the blessings of liberty! ❤️🇺🇸
A series of pics for the day. Debating:
Independence Hall. Philadelphia.
The rising sun chair Washington sat in to preside over the convention. You can see it in Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
George Washington. Father of our country. He gave up power after two terms, saying: “I did not defeat George III to become King George I.” George III in response said: “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”
Thomas Jefferson. He called the convention “an assembly of demi-gods.” He was serving at the time as our Ambassador to France.
James Madison. 4th US President. Called the “Father of the Constitution” for his significant role in the drafting of it & the Bill of Rights, & for promoting ratification of the Constitution by the states.
John Marshall. 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice. A Virginia delegate to the convention, he was also instrumental in having Virginia ratify the constitution.
Ben Franklin. The oldest delegate, he urged all to consider carefully others views. On the last day he was ill, but his speech was read including this line: “Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.”
Alexander Hamilton. A tireless advocate for the Constitution, he was a delegate from New York. He was a principal author of “The Federalist Papers,” a series of articles explaining the Constitution to the people & urging ratification.
Gouverneur Morris. An often overlooked Founder, he wrote the beautiful Preamble to the Constitution. His other stylist changes made the document readable & flowing.
These were just men w/flaws & failings. But they fought for & created a system in which people rule themselves instead of being ruled by a despot who can beggar or kill anyone. These men were geniuses & heros. W/o them, especially Washington only the Almighty knows where we’d be.
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This was the only just outcome. These people were ALL over-charged, over-prosecuted, had unconstitutional conditions imposed on them when released pre-trial, had the most draconian & unlawful pleas imposed on them, & were over-sentenced.
Not even the cases where there was bad behavior by defendants were handled appropriately so as to justify the punishments handed out.
Just as electing Trump was the only way to counteract the lawfare by Democrats, pardoning & releasing all these defendants was the only way to set right the completely disproportionate & inappropriate response of the “justice system” to Jan 6.
DJT has appeared at the sentencing with Todd Blanche, seated in front of an American flag.
Per CNN
Bragg’s office has asked for the unconditional discharge sentence.
Now the prosecutor is doing what they always do - whining about how a defendant who went to trial because he thinks he’s not guilty hasn’t shown remorse after being convicted by a jury. 🙄
So you know. I would never counsel a client to not show up for a court hearing, especially a sentencing.
However, as I said last night on Spaces, if it were me - if I were the client- in this situation, I would absolutely not attend the sentencing hearing tomorrow.
I would instead have my lawyer put out a statement explaining that I view the hearing as ultra vires so I’m not attending.
The lawyers themselves are another matter. They must attend a duly scheduled court session or risk being found in contempt & being referred to Bar Counsel for discipline.
I’m happy the Right of Center now sees how awful the criminal justice system is.
But don’t expect me to be particularly outraged at how these prosecutors & judges have acted because IT’S NOT NEW & IT’S NOT NEWS TO ME.
It’s been this way the whole time & you didn’t care before.
So welcome to the fight, but don’t act like you are dropping breaking news on me, because you are actually late to the party, and I have been at this party since 1996.
Some of the weaponization & smug assholery you’re now objecting to is not a NEW development aimed at J6ers or Trump supporters - it’s how the people who run the system- prosecutors, judges, BOP, & Probation officers -just are. They’ve just turned it on people you like this time.
Judicial Appointments. DJT's new administration needs to put pedal to the metal on judicial appointments.
Right now the breakdown of all federal judges is:
496 appointed by Dem POTUSs;
382 by Repub POTUSs.
Biden appointed fewer than DJT, 214 to 237 as of today.
But, Biden still has two months to put thru appointments, and has about 40 pending. That would then eclipse DJT's number.
It appears to me that more of the older judges (pre-2010) are Republican appointed based on which POTUS appointed them. 145 of them were appointed by the two Bushs & Reagan. Only 33 were appointed by Bill.
House update. As we know the Republican took control yesterday with 2 non-California seats. Since then 2 more seats have resolved; 1 for Ds, 1 for Rs. These were tossup seats.
There are now 6 races left. Alaska's at-large seat and 5 CA races. Right now it stands: R219 to R210.
Of the 6 remaining races, Rs will almost certainly win the AK race.
3 of the CA races that are D leaners - 1 is still w/in 1%, 1 is 2.4%D, and 1 is 2.5%R.
So, Rs will likely take 1, maybe 2 of these races.
The last 2 CA races are tossup ones - they are both tight races; less than 1% difference, with about 15% left to count. They have see-sawed back and forth, & could go either way here at the end. We'll see.
Best case scenario: Rs take 4 of the remaining 6.
Worst case scenario: Rs take only 2 of the 6.