These judges like Wallace are people too, with families who cannot hide behind anonymity like a high profile jury in a mob case. They've seen what Trump's Brown Shirts will do to those they don't like: anything from incessant threatening phone calls to attempted murder with a hammer. What an impossible position to be in: serve justice, or risk your family being stalk and possibly assaulted.

This is how democracy dies. It takes very brave people in power to stand up to someone like Trump.

Alt Headline: Judges would rather hand our country to fascists than to hold a fascist accountable

Holy shit. Let justice prevail. This asshole needs to be a convicted felon. Judges are getting scared to do their jobs.

I'm in the medical industry. I put blinders on every day. I don't care what brought you here or why you're handcuffed to the bed.

Yes, I'm proud to say I've worked in a prison ward and been swung at and almost stabbed a few times.

I still show up to do my job.

Putting out a hit list and having a cult of followers that intimidate you and disobey you to this degree is fucked up. Judges should be impartial, of course. That also should allow them the right to reign in a flagrant bullshitter and bully when they see one.

It's odd to say that Engoron is afraid to rule against Trump when he already ruled he's guilty of fraud. I'd also love to see him fined a billion dollars or to spend time in jail for contempt of court but Trump and his team are baiting him to take more extreme action to argue bias on appeal. Keeping his orders beyond reasonable is probably the right move to protect his verdict moving forward. Same goes for Chutkin. She's probably more reluctant to help Trump open a door to appeal than afraid to have him spend a night in jail or whatever.

Congressional republicans really hung the entire country out to dry when they chose to cross that line with him. That's what it all comes back to. These questions should never be riding on individual judges; it's why the legislative branch was defined as its own thing and not just another arm of the president. But they signaled to everyone that his actions were just fine within the framework of the gov.

I mean the whole point of this country was to NOT have power consolidated in one office, and these clowns are just going full-steam ahead on sending us back there again, and dumping all of their resources into convincing the public it's a good thing. Some days I just don't know what kind of backward mirror world we fell into.

No excuses, you take the risk of being targeted with each case. What they're actually afraid of is to burn their God on the pyre. Just look at Cannon, she is clearly trying to avoid a Judas moment.

We USians gave that shithead Trump access to the largest spying network in the world and are surprised that Trump might be extorting and blackmailing judges.

he's basically a sovereign citizen

I think they're afraid of appeals. Whatever they do, they want to make it stick

At what point does this removed just not get killed

This is, conceptually, a really important discussion. This author treats this important discussion like an early 2000s Myspace page.

As fodder in the spin wars, her ruling has a little something for everyone. Trump supporters can rightly note that Wallace rejected arguments (like mine!) that their guy is ineligible for the presidency; Trump critics can respond that, after trying the issue, she found Trump indeed engaged in the insurrection, even though he was not among the rioters at the Capitol that day.

This is just truly awful writing for such an important piece of potential American history.

I've never heard of that site before, but that was a well-written piece and a good read. Thanks for sharing it.

Pity they couldn’t court martial him. He was CiC when he fomented insurrection. That would really blow the conservative mind, with their military worship they wouldn’t know what to do. Attack the military for throwing trump in Leavenworth?