This has been a bad week for the American justice system, at least if you think it should be about, you know, justice.
Big developments in three separate legal cases intersected within 36 hours. The f.
This has been a bad week for the American justice system, at least if you think it should be about, you know, justice.
Big developments in three separate legal cases intersected within 36 hours. The first, of course, is the Hunter Biden plea deal fiasco; the second is the Special Counsel’s ever-expanding witchhunt against Donald Trump; the third is the Justice Department’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried.
It is not wrong to look at these cases as partisan issues, because, well, they are.
Hunter Biden is the president’s son and obviously getting a sweet deal from his dad’s employees. Donald Trump is President Biden’s political enemy and likely opponent in 2024, assuming Biden is still alive and kicking. And Sam Bankman-Fried poured $90 million into the Democrats’ coffers, including a ton into the campaign to get Biden elected.
Biden. Biden. Biden. It’s as if our legal system exists mainly to serve Joe Biden.
First, consider SBF’s case. Mr. Bankman-Fried, who dropped $90 million into the laps of Democrats over the past few years, just had charges dropped related to – you guessed it – campaign finance allegations. He stole money from his clients to give to Democrats, and the Justice Department has decided that this is going to be swept under the rug.
Surprise! No discovery. No campaign finance charges are to be touted in the media during a trial. Just gone. This will benefit SBF not much – he still has other charges – but it sure helps the Democrats who no longer have to answer for the scandal.
Now, Hunter Biden. The fiasco that unfolded on Wednesday had but one origin: the Justice Department wanted to give Hunter blanket immunity while pretending not to, and the judge saw through it. They concocted a strategy that was, even the Justice Department admitted, unique in legal history: cut a deal to provide immunity from prosecution for all crimes while resolving the “investigation” in almost none of them.
It was the equivalent of a blanket pardon from the president while looking like a plea deal.
