How Democrats wage war on the rule of law and weaponize it against Trump

Since 2021, the left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways. One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court. In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protesters assembled at the very doors of the court chambers. He threatened two of the justices, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, by name. Schumer yelled to the volatile crowd that the justices’ views would make them “reap the whirlwind,” and the two would not know what “hit” them. In the ensuing months, protesters mobbed some of the conservative justices’ homes — likely committing felonies.The sympathetic Biden Justice Department chose not to follow the law, and so did nothing — although eventually a would-be assassin turned up. Former President Joe Biden himself bragged that he would try to ignore the Supreme Court ruling banning his arbitrary cancellation of billions of dollars in student loans.

 Indeed, he boasted, “The Supreme Court blocked it, but that didn’t stop me.” In response, no one on the left ever complained about endangering the “rule of law” or Biden as “a dictator.”  Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Never miss a story.For three years, four local, state and federal prosecutors warped the law to neuter Donald Trump.

 Most of the charges had never been brought against other political figures in similar circumstances. The vast majority of the 93 weaponized indictments backfired on the liberal prosecutors, who had contorted the legal system for political purposes and now face their own ethical or legal quagmires. The federal prosecutor Jack Smith belatedly reported accepting $140,000 in free legal services. Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis was removed from the Trump case and...