As Faith In Judicial System Falters, The Battle Against Weaponized Justice Heats Up
After four years of weaponized justice under the Biden-Harris regime, America is reaping what the left has sown. Americans’ confidence in federal law enforcement and the judicial system has hit an all-time low.
A Gallup poll released in late December found faith in the U.S. judicial system and the courts fell to 35 percent in 2024 — a record low. Just 41 percent of Americans believe the FBI is doing an “excellent” or “good job”, according to a November Gallup poll. That’s down from 53 percent the year before.
Democrats blame the man they love to hate, President Donald Trump. Those with eyes and ears know that Trump, the poster child subject of the modern-day political witch hunt, has done more to expose the mockery that the swamp, the Deep State, and his opponents on the left have made of the sacred tenet of blind justice than just about anyone.
“President Trump overcame the most vindictive weaponization of the justice system against an American leader in our nation’s history,” Daniel Epstein, vice president of America First Legal, founded by top Trump advisor Stephen Miller, told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government at a hearing this week on Capitol Hill.
The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and former federal prosecutor, is pushing legislative reforms to end the rampant lawfare by state and local prosecutors — as shockingly evidenced in the left’s coordinated efforts to take Trump out of the 2024 political equation. Of course they failed, but they left a stain.
Epstein put it in perspective, by the numbers.
“Two impeachment[s] …, four indictments, one $400 million judgment, one mugshot, three states attempting to disqualify him from their ballots, two Democratic-nominated political opponents and two assassination attempts later, Democrats would finally claim their scalp when they obtained a conviction against President Trump in a New York state court weeks before the American people overwhelmingly re-elected him,” Epstein said in his testimony before the panel.
He added that the American people saw through the “coordinated hit job” on Trump, whose conviction on a twisted interpretation of a federal campaign finance violation came in a Manhattan kangaroo court presided over by a judge who donated to Joe Biden’s campaign and whose daughter worked for the firm representing the Biden and Kamala Harris campaigns.
‘Political Whims’ and ‘Personal Vendettas’
From Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James to Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis, all of whom campaigned on their hatred for Trump, political animus reigned at the center of the four indictments against the Republican president. Four days before Willis indicted Trump and 18 others on charges reserved for mobsters and gang members, she launched her re-election campaign website. Willis raised loads of cash off of her sham “election interference” prosecution that has fallen apart under the weight of her lust, greed, incompetence and naked partisanship. Willis says she has no regrets. Why should she? The Trump-hating, corruption-loving voters of Fulton County rewarded her with another term.
“That is no way for our government to operate. This is no way for our system of justice to be operated, if we’re going to preserve this republic,” Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., a member of the subcommittee said on the latest episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour” podcast.
Roy said every American should be able to count on “a justice system that is divorced from the political whims of elected officeholders, political parties and personal vendettas.”
“In their political pursuit of President Trump, however, we saw state and local prosecutors abuse professional norms in favor of achieving indictments against their target,” Roy said in his opening statements.
The Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government isn’t simply taking testimony and shining light on prosecutorial abuses. It aims to pass laws in concert with the efforts of the Trump administration to kill the cancer of weaponization of the federal government.
This week, the focus was on the No More Political Prosecutions Act. Introduced by Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., the bill would allow presidents, former presidents, and vice presidents, among others, to move state civil and criminal cases to federal courts. The proposal also codifies official-act presidential immunity recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark ruling last year. Proponents say it’s not a get-out-of-jail free card, but legislation that helps restore protection for federal officers from state prosecutions, standing law for two centuries before its erosion in the 1970s.
Democrats on the committee, of course, hate the bill, as they hate the accusations dogging their party for leading the power-centric lawfare that has done so much to compromise faith in justice served.
“The majority calls it lawfare when Donald Trump is held to the rule of law and given every right of due process,” Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., jibed at Tuesday’s hearing. Raskin, who seems to have a skewed understanding of due process, accused the president of trampling on the “rights of prosecutors.”
‘The Rule of Law’
Mostly, Dems on the subcommittee turned the hearing into another showcase of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Ranking member Mary Gay Scanlon, a Pennsylvania Democrat who who looks and sounds like an aging Jan Brady with a psychotic “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” complex, used her opening statement to sling zingers at Trump, Elon Musk and the administration’s efforts to trim the bloated federal bureaucracy.
“Instead of acting as a co-equal branch of government as designed by our founding document, this House majority is content to abdicate Congress’ authority to make and fund laws to a would-be dictator and his billionaire tech bro,” Scanlon sneered.
“This bill is another attempt to refashion the rule of law to flatter a narcissist and felon-in-chief,” the Democrat jeered as if auditioning to replace Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Scanlon called the bill an “infringement on state sovereignty.” It’s always delightful when the party of socialized medicine and federally protected preborn baby murder blusters about states’ rights.
Harris said Democrats have attempted to slow down reform bills at every turn, trying to bury them in amendments in a losing effort. He said they do so at the peril of a republic facing an alarming lack of confidence in the idea of “justice for all.”
“Without law and order, without a nonpartisan Department of Justice, the American people can’t have confidence in our whole judicial system,” Harris said in the podcast interview. “We’ve got to restore confidence and trust with the American people in all of our branches of government.”
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