Saturday, August 26, 2023

Beyond the Mug Shot

Today’s top news: Trump’s new attorney in the Georgia case appears to be a serious departure from the wackos Trump often associates with. Steven H. Sadow has offered free representation to abortion providers who run afoul of the states’ anti-abortion restrictions.

“If a doctor believes that it is appropriate to violate the law, at least as written, I want to be there to defend them because they need somebody in their corner and that is what I do,” he said after the Trump-packed Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Strange bedfellows indeed.

But while it’s true that the four Trump indictments effectively help to make the point that no one is above the law in America, gaining a conviction against the former Reality TV star may prove difficult if not impossible.

The complications of any potential trials disrupting the 2024 election cycle is one factor but the real issue is what group of 12 jurors can be found that is going to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?

Somewhere around a quarter of the population so rapidly supports him that they buy his lie that the 2020 election was rigged. And that is his excuse for almost everything he did that led to many of the charges he faces.

That means that we should reasonably expect three of any random 12 adults to be Trump sympathizers. It would only take one of them to hang a jury.

I hope I am wrong about this and that in the jurisdictions where he is likely to be tried, 12 fully unbiased individuals can be assembled to hear the evidence and render an honest verdict, free of politics.

And that if he is then judged innocent he can go free but if judged guilty he will be punished. Only then can we confirm that in America no one is above the law.

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