The verdict in New York v. Donald Trump didn’t come as a surprise. Shock was a typical response unless you could work inside the Eric Holder Justice Department.
Normalizing a two-tiered justice system has been a priority of the left for more than a decade. As an attorney inside the Voting Section in the notorious Civil Rights Division run by Tom Perez, I witnessed justice for thee but not for me as early as 2009. Early in the Barack Obama administration, we were told explicitly to stop enforcing federal laws that required voter roll maintenance of the dead and ineligible.
Progressives didn’t like that part of the law, and they said so. The laws the left doesn’t like are erased by bureaucratic hostility. Let’s call that democracy dying in darkness by a bureaucrat’s fiat.
Then I saw my voting rights case against the racialist New Black Panther Party for stalking a polling place dismissed, in part, as the DOJ Inspector General found, because of a pervasive unwillingness to prosecute those sorts of lawbreakers with laws designed originally to help racial minorities. This was 2009, and unequal justice was just getting started. What seemed like a fluke, 15 years later, is a governing philosophy.
So Trump was in the dock as the guilty verdicts from the Manhattan jurors were read. Unequal justice now includes forum selection. Beware the New York or District of Columbia jury if you are a conservative.
What we are facing is more than good old-fashioned bias and prejudice. It .
