Nothing has changed in 2,000 years. We just have to read the newspaper and we see all these court cases where laws made to protect people, they can be easily broken. And the more money you have, the more lawyers we can buy. And the more we can manipulate the rules and, quote "Bring justice our way." And actually it's immoral.
Fr. Henk van Meijel, S.J. from last Tuesday
DONALD TRUMP AND HIS SCUMBAG LAWYERS have openly, clearly, obviously and undeniably manipulated that evil which Hamlet listed among those unbearable things in life which he gave as a good reason to consider suicide, "the laws delay." And he did that by doing what Fr. van Meijel identified, buying lots of lawyers whose profession it is to manipulate not just the law but the very scheduling and work habits of courts and clerks and the entire system right up to the Supreme Court. He did it to steal and cheat from those who contracted to do work for him, he did it to get away with some of the most serious crimes ever committed by a president of the United States, he did it to avoid being declared unqualified to run for the disastrous term he's carrying out even as he led an insurrection against the goddamned Constitution which has proven just how useless it is when such a determined and practiced rich crook who can buy enough lawyers is determined to break the law and get away with it.
THE FUNNIEST THING ABOUT THAT, IF ANY OF THIS CAN BE SAID TO BE FUNNY, IS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS, BEYOND MEASURE, THE STUPIDEST, MOST IGNORANT AND NOW DEMENTED PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY AND HE'S PLAYING COURTS FROM BOTTOM TO TOP, FILLED WITH THE GRADUATES OF THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LAW SCHOOLS LIKE SECOND GRADE PLAYGROUND CHUMPS. And the goddamned crooks at the top of the judiciary have not only played along with him, they've rewritten the rules to legalize everything he's gotten away with. The Roberts Court is singularly crooked in our history and singularly dishonest, in so far as its majority is concerned. And, of course, nothing will be done to fix that. As I have predicted, the lawyers among the Democratic lawmakers will probably be the last hurdle that such lawmaking will have to jump over. Don't get me started on the hurdles a Constitutional amendment that ended Supreme Court criminality will have to overcome.
This what he does the rich and super rich do regularly. One of the 19th century robber barons laid out that regular practice of the legal profession plainly, he told a lawyer who had told him what he wanted to do was illegal that he didn't hire lawyers to tell him what the law was but how to get away with breaking it. And by training and by the actual practices of that profession, he certainly wasn't unable to find lawyers or, for that matter, judges who would do that for him. Elon Musk and Peter Thiel probably have a far easier time with doing that. Trump has, he doesn't even have to hide his intention to break contracts and the law right in front of the judges and he knows he can count on the majority on the Supreme Court to let him do it AS THEY HAVE BEEN DOING.
The Republican Party has used the same thing as a weapon against their critics at least since the interminable hearings against Democrats during the Clinton administration. I used to marvel at how the Democrats hauled before them, private citizens always had to have lawyers with them, wondering how much their command performance cost them. When one woman, as I remember her a secretary appeared without a lawyer it was remarked on by one of the House members because it was so singular.
And that is true for anyone without funds in any civil case who cannot be expected to win a big settlement from someone with deep pockets. And it's also true of those without a lawyer or one who is inadequate whenever they are bought before the court in any criminal matter in which they're up against the police, the prosecutor, the state and not infrequently a judge who wants to demonstrate how tough they are on those accused of crimes.
There is no equal justice under the law of the United States because those with lots of money can do what the priest identified, they can buy lawyers and if they can't find a lawyer who will do it, they will find one who will lie for them and outrageously manipulate the habits of courts. The rich start out with that kind of mercy that you can buy, not to mention the prejudice in favor of the rich which is rampant in the world, no place more so than the United States and in few venues so much so as those run by and staffed by those who were educated into the lore of the civil law and the Constitution of the United States.
I gave you a link to the video of the sermon which led to me writing this, with the Gospel it is on. His Dutch accent might take a little getting used to and his use of English but he is a very good homilist. I think what he said last Tuesday is more useful than anything I've heard from the lawyers of MS NBC or Meidas Touch.
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