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Due process and at least an attempt at equal representation under the law was THE bedrock of our Republic.

Now that the "patriots" have done away with it, the United States exists in name only. Rule of law isn't dead; our Constitutional Republic is dead.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-14 10:17 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Only for the rich. Us "commoners" get the full weight of the law on a daily basis.

#2 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-04-14 03:42 PM | Reply

#2: Only for the rich. Us "commoners" get the full weight of the law on a daily basis.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/02/07/opinion/07chappatte/07chappatte-master768-v2.jpg

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-14 03:59 PM | Reply

As California so goes the nation.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-15 10:17 PM | Reply

Only for the rich. Us "commoners" get the full weight of the law on a daily basis.
-fresnojoe

And the poor they also get away with infractions and skate from rules and regulations.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-15 10:18 PM | Reply

#5

You are like a terrorist against rational thought.

With a bad accent.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-16 01:48 AM | Reply

Wait for it. Trump will throw some mud at the wall to see if he has any traction to impeach Chief Justice John Roberts for not being able to hold their GOP majority together to give Trump Carte Blanche on demand.

How long before we start hearing the words, "Rogue" Justice?

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-04-16 02:29 AM | Reply

Time for a revolution

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-16 03:31 AM | Reply

#5

---- off, idiot. You're a ------- clown.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-16 03:31 AM | Reply

LEGALLY

"Time for a revolution."

Silly! That's what elections and/or .308 calibers are for.

#10 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-04-16 06:59 AM | Reply

#5

As much as it pains me, he's right. In San Francisco and Los Angeles, city government will go after taxpayers and let the homeless get away with breaking laws.

#11 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-16 07:52 AM | Reply

Taxpayers have something worth going after, aka money.

No sense going after homeless, they have nothing anybody wants.

"Breaking laws" if only you could be a little less specific.

And while you're at it, clue us in to the community that improved itself by rounding up the homeless and sending them to camps.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-16 08:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

On topic, the Trump administration had four years to build up precedence. They came back with a plan fully loaded with legal bullets. That why the rollout has been so fast. Sort of a blitzkrieg on the constitution. The Trump Wehrmacht is in full ramming speed.

#13 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-16 08:07 AM | Reply

#12

Correct. It's easier to go after easy money than what is going to cost money. I'll leave it at that. The situation is reversable. Everything political is. I'm not going to go down a semantical supposition with you.

#14 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-16 08:11 AM | Reply

Time for a revolution

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

nice going....you're gonna see this everytime I see one ---- word

about J6....you illiterate dope

#15 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-16 11:01 AM | Reply

so many brows furrowed I suspect...

so much concern over "the rule of law"

emotions ripping at the soul of the "honest" progressive

psyche "the rule of law".....served the American public for

years and years except for both clintons / al shartop /

schumer sc threats adam ----- / and too many more to add .

i just HAVE to come up with a abbreviated version of GD mother etc 2 faced lying hypocrites....I Know....REINSPEAK..or ma

JPW-ITIS />

#16 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-16 11:14 AM | Reply

Any future revolution will occur outside of America's borders, not within.
The reason is that America no longer stands for anything worth standing for or fighting for.
It is now looked upon as an amoral and avaricious troll with the world's largest military, trying to intimidate the world from under an old and crumbling bridge.

Why bother fighting for the rebirth of a political system and social order that led to the current situation in the first place?

#17 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-04-16 11:23 AM | Reply

The Patriot Act was officially the death of democracy, imo.

Report: FBI Problems Led to Wrongful Terror Arrest ABC News January 6, 2006, 3:15 PM

"Portland attorney Brandon Mayfield was incorrectly identified by the FBI as a suspect in the attacks because of incorrect fingerprint data. Mayfield was arrested on May 6, 2004, and secretly held as a material witness for two weeks. He was released when the Spanish National Police eventually matched the fingerprints to an Algerian national.

A review by Glenn Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general, found several problems with the actions of FBI employees, as well as systemic problems at the FBI lab in Quantico, Va.

Specifically, the unusual similarity between Mayfield's fingerprint and the fingerprint on a bag of detonators found in Madrid confused several fingerprint experts. FBI laboratory examiners identified Mayfield's fingerprint as matching a print found on a bag of detonators connected to the Madrid commuter train attack, which killed 191 people and injured almost 1,500. A court-appointed fingerprint expert also misidentified the prints.

The Spanish National Police had provided digital photographs of the prints on the detonator bag from Madrid and sent the pictures to the FBI lab, where they were entered into the bureau's computer. When no exact matches were found, a second search was performed, prompting the computer to return a list of 20 candidates whose known prints had features in common with the ones found on the detonator bag.

"We concluded that the examiners committed errors in the examination procedure, and that the misidentification could have been prevented through a more rigorous application of several principles of latent fingerprint identification," the report said.

The inspector general report also looked into whether Mayfield's conversion to Islam was a factor in the FBI's focus on Mayfield. Mayfield, a practicing Muslim, also piqued the investigators' interest because he was an attorney for a convicted terrorism suspect.

The report noted, "One of the examiners candidly admitted that if the person identified had been someone without these characteristics, like the 'Maytag Repairman,' the laboratory might have revisited the identification with more skepticism and caught the error." The Justice Department review states that Mayfield's religion and representation of a convicted terrorist contributed to the examiners failing to reconsider the fingerprint misidentification but said there was no evidence his religion played a role in the FBI prolonging the investigation.

Mayfield's attorney, however, was not satisfied with the report's conclusion."

#18 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-04-16 02:55 PM | Reply

"Rather than admit its mistake, because of Mr. Mayfield's Muslim faith, the U.S. government was willing to subject Mr. Mayfield to the death penalty," said Mayfield's attorney, Gerry Spence, in a statement. Mayfield, through his attorney, also said the audit confirms "he was the victim of religious profiling." Mayfield has sued the government over his detention.

The case has been controversial not only because of the faulty fingerprint data but also because the FBI used secret warrants to collect information about Mayfield. The FBI obtained Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants in the case and intercepted electronic communications and conducted covert searches of his property with a court order.

The inspector general's audit found that the controversial Patriot Act was not abused in the case; certain provisions of the act allowed government investigators to widely share information they had collected about Mayfield. The review noted, "We did not find any evidence that the FBI misused any of the provisions of the Patriot Act in conducting its investigation."

In a statement, the FBI said, "We appreciate the work of the Office of the Inspector General in providing additional insights and perspective into how the FBI can strengthen the process of fingerprint identification. Of particular importance, the OIG report confirmed there was no misconduct by the FBI or misuse of the USA Patriot Act. We are confident that the OIG's findings and recommendations, combined with corrective measures already implemented, will significantly enhance our ability to perform our duties to the public."

The report also confirmed that the Justice Department used highly secretive National Security Letters to collect information on Mayfield. Much of that information has not been disclosed publicly because much of the 273 page report remains classified.

Sections of the Patriot Act are due to expire at the end of the month unless Congress renews the anti-terrorism law. The debate over the Patriot Act and the government's authority to collect information has intensified in recent weeks in light of recent disclosures that the National Security Agency collected information on people inside the United States without obtaining a court order."

#19 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-04-16 02:55 PM | Reply

While Citizens United allowed the monsters directly inside government operations and decisions, the Patriot Act allowed them to secretly torture and secretly surveil.

Both are anti-Democracy.

#20 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-04-16 04:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

While Citizens United allowed the monsters directly inside government operations and decisions, the Patriot Act allowed them to secretly torture and secretly surveil.
Both are anti-Democracy.

Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-04-16 04:10 PM | Reply | Flagged

Both parties did this. No clean hands to be found.

#21 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-16 06:50 PM | Reply

"Due process and at least an attempt at equal representation under the law was THE bedrock of our Republic.
#1 | Posted by jpw"

The rule of law was killed by the Biden administration - Trump is just using the new normal to do the same. Frankly, I wish the Democrats never brought us to this place but the fact is that they need a taste of their own medicine to teach them a lesson about redefining 'normal'. Doesn't matter if it is perverting justice, getting rid of the filibuster, stacking the supreme court, or up and down votes for judges. It always boomerangs on the liberals and their cries of glee turn to cries of sorrow.

#22 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-16 07:19 PM | Reply

---- off ------

#23 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-16 07:21 PM | Reply

Scotts, Are Human rights and rule of Law optional?

You keep talking about Democratic politicians committing crimes and normalizing chaos. Why are you so delighted by far worse crimes committed by Trump and the Republicans?

Crimes are crimes no matter who commits them.

You show your ASS every time you defend obvious criminality done by Republicans.

Tribal thinking is not conducive to a free society.

Consistent Morality, not whattaboutism, is the point.

#24 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-04-16 08:32 PM | Reply

"You keep talking about Democratic politicians committing crimes and normalizing chaos. Why are you so delighted by far worse crimes committed by Trump and the Republicans?
#24 | Posted by Effeteposer"

Because that is the only way Democrats will learn. We tried the nice way for the last 20 years as your party got more and more extreme - no more.

#25 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-16 10:46 PM | Reply

scotts likes lawlessness as long as its his party doing it.

He's in a cult.

#26 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-16 10:55 PM | Reply

"scotts likes lawlessness as long as its his party doing it.
#26 | Posted by Alexandrite"

I don't like it - but, unfortunately, it is needed to bring the Democrat party back to reality where they stop being the party that violates norms. You -------- were warned EXACTLY this would happen - and now it is happening and you cry and whine. Yet, when Biden was violating the law - you cheered. You were warned by MAGA that payback would be a bitch - but, you thought you could steal another election. You see now why MAGA does not take you -------- seriously. You only respond to force - and we are just getting started.

#27 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-16 11:32 PM | Reply

I don't like it - but...

Classic MAGA mating call.

#28 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-16 11:35 PM | Reply

Violates norms? What the ----!

Violates Norms?
Denying due process to an improperly detained and deported person sent To a foreign torture prison for life?

That's worse than ANYTHING the Dems ever even contemplated doing.

You're just a cruel and stupid Bigot. Your "Arguments" are excuses for Tyranny and Cruelty without any underlying purpose but your God Trump's will to Power.

People like you are why the Holocaust happened.

Stupid, unreflecting and OBEDIENT idiots.

Own it Scotts, You Cheerlead for Oppression and Government Abuse.

It may one day cost you everything.

#29 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-04-17 09:16 AM | Reply

I don't like it - but, unfortunately, it is needed to bring the Democrat party back to reality where they stop being the party that violates norms. You -------- were warned EXACTLY this would happen - and now it is happening and you cry and whine. Yet, when Biden was violating the law - you cheered. You were warned by MAGA that payback would be a bitch - but, you thought you could steal another election. You see now why MAGA does not take you -------- seriously. You only respond to force - and we are just getting started.

#27 | Posted by ScottS

Translation:

Democrats followed the law but did things I don't like!

So Trump can tear up the Constitution and do whatever he wants!

Waah! I have the intelligence of a 6 year old!

#30 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-17 10:54 AM | Reply

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