Et tu? redux

[Swordsmyth]

Fox News’ Judge Napolitano Says Trump Jr-Russia Meeting Merits Criminal Investigation (Video)

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fox-news-judge-napolitano-says-trump-jr-russia-202307669.html




This is madness "something of value" does not mean information, and if he believes it does why is he not calling for Hitlery to be investigated for dealing with the Ukies?

[goldenequity]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuwGTQaYhU

[nikcers]

et tu?

http://i.imgur.com/Kse29sk.jpg

[Swordsmyth]

Dershowitz Blasts Hypocrisy Of "Liberals" Looking To Adapt Corruption Laws To "Get Trump"


My critics have argued for an extraordinarily broad definition of corruption capable of being expanded to fit nearly everything Trump has done — from firing FBI Director James Comey, to asking him to consider dropping the investigation of General Michael Flynn, to his son’s meeting with Russian surrogates.

This is the way the New York Times put it in its story about the court’s narrowing the meaning of corruption in the context of federal criminal law: “There was a time when political corruption might have been described — as a former Supreme Court justice once said of pornography — as something you knew when you saw it." In other words, it was in the eye of the beholder rather than in a precise statutory definition.

That dangerous time — dangerous because it substituted the rule of individual prosecutors for the rule of law — came to a gradual end over the past several years as the Supreme Court repeatedly cabined the definition of corruption under federal statutes. It ruled that not all political actions that smell or look like corruption can be prosecuted criminally without Congress specifically making such conduct criminal by precisely worded legislation.

This salutary approach to defining overbroad words like corruption was applauded by many civil libertarians and liberals, and especially by criminal defense attorneys who had seen up close how expandable terms like corruption could be, and were being abused by ambitious prosecutors determined to add notches to their belts by convicting dishonest politicians.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/07/17/Dershowitz_0.JPG

But, Dershowitz goes on to point out that, in the Trump era, "civil libertarians, liberals and even defense attorneys" that once applauded the narrowing of broad terms like "corruption," are now effectively longing for a one-time exception in order to "get Trump."



Now many of these same civil libertarians, liberals and even defense attorneys have forgotten how dangerous those bad old days were, and are demanding that President Trump and his family members should be prosecuted for corruption under the most expansive definition of corruption, despite recent court rulings narrowing that open-ended term.

“Just this one time, please. Just let us get Trump.” That is what the fair-weather liberals, civil libertarians, and criminal defense lawyers seem to be saying. “Then, we will return to our principles.”


But that’s not the way the law works. There are no exceptions — no “just this one time.” The law operates on precedent. Today’s exception may become tomorrow’s rule. And even if it doesn’t, it creates a precedent for more exceptions.

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-17/dershowitz-blasts-hypocrisy-liberals-looking-adapt-corruption-laws-get-trump

[Swordsmyth]

Now Christie wields the knife.

Christie: Getting Russian oppo research 'probably' illegalhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/christie-getting-russian-oppo-research-probably-illegal-205306729--politics.html