by Brett Rowland Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump are working to clear out pending criminal cases before he takes office in January. Federal prosecutors have already moved to end two criminal cases against Trump – the election interference case in Washington D.C. and the classified documents case in Florida. That leaves the hush money case in New York and the election interference charges in Georgia. This week, Trump’s defense team asked New York Judge Juan Merchan to dismiss his conviction. In an 80-page dismissal motion, Trump’s team said prosecutors should never have filed charges. The motion cited President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, in which the president said his son was unfairly targeted for political reasons. Trump has repeatedly said the criminal cases against him were coordinated by his political opponents. His attorneys have continued those assertions in court motions. “This case should never have been brought, particularly during a period when DA Bragg’s failure to protect this City from pervasive violent crime frightens, threatens, and harms New Yorkers on a daily basis,” Trump’s defense attorneys wrote. “And this case would never have been brought were it not for President Trump’s political views, the transformative national movement…
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Commentary: Lawfare Didn’t Begin with Trump
The newest buzzword in politics is “Lawfare,” the effort to cripple political opponents through legal initiatives, preferably by bringing criminal cases. Today’s favorite target is former President Trump, who has been indicted in various state and federal jurisdictions for some ninety-one felonies.
Amazingly, Wikipedia’s current “Lawfare” entry goes into great detail concerning the term’s origins and current application – defining Lawfare as “the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter an individual’s usage of their legal rights” without any mention whatsoever of its current use against Trump.
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