Donald Trump Poisoned The Country But Most Importantly Perhaps He Poisoned The Federal Judiciary

Donald Trump is a poi­son that has fil­tered down­stream, poi­son­ing the water for all future gen­er­a­tions. Those of you who argued that America is improv­ing, I direct you to Dr. Martin Luther King’s state­ments warn­ing against what he char­ac­ter­ized then as the “tran­quil drug of gradualism.”
We have wit­nessed what Donald Trump and his acolytes did after he lost the 2020 elec­tions; still, Trump and his cronies are walk­ing around as if noth­ing happened.
In fact, Trump recent­ly said in a speech in Washington DC on Tuesday, July 26^th, that he would purge the gov­ern­ment of peo­ple who would uphold their oaths to the con­sti­tu­tion should he be reelect­ed to the pres­i­den­cy in 2024.
Donald Trump is walk­ing around free because, con­trary to what they tell you, there are two sep­a­rate jus­tice sys­tems in America.
In the mean­time, inno­cent peo­ple of col­or are being gunned down in their cars and on the streets for a bro­ken tail­light by police, who are empow­ered as a form of Gestapo by the Supreme court.
Trump has already stacked the judi­cia­ry with right-wing reac­tionar­ies and has moles oper­at­ing at every lev­el of the state and fed­er­al systems.

Trump and his coup plan­ners would have long been in prison in a coun­try of laws. Americans arro­gant­ly refer to oth­er coun­tries as banana republics; who is the banana repub­lic now?
When we talk about cor­rup­tion and poi­son, Americans once revered and respect­ed the jus­tice sys­tem. I believe the sys­tem is rea­son­ably okay, except that many play­ers are bad peo­ple. Hence, peo­ple of col­or have far less rea­son to be hope­ful about receiv­ing jus­tice from the sys­tem that has nev­er worked for them than their white counterparts.
As bad as the sys­tem has been, it is now clear that it has got­ten expo­nen­tial­ly worse after four years of the most cor­rupt pres­i­den­cy in the nation’s history.
It is no easy feat to be char­ac­ter­ized as the most cor­rupt pres­i­den­cy, America has had some real­ly bad pres­i­den­cies, yet Donald Trump found a way to be the worst.

And so, the courts are now pop­u­lat­ed with hyper-par­ti­sans who do not care that they are per­ceived as par­ti­sans. Samuel Alito and Clarence Tom-ass cer­tain­ly do not care.
Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amey Coney-Barrett cer­tain­ly do not care that they are seen as bla­tant liars who point­ed­ly told Senators at their con­fir­ma­tion hear­ings that Roe Versus Wade was set­tled law (prece­dent on prece­dent); their words.
They then over­turned that almost half a cen­tu­ry old prece­dent on prece­dent and did not care what any­one thought of them or the court they were destroying.
It may be impos­si­ble to find a pres­i­dent who has appoint­ed more judges to the Federal judi­cia­ry than Donald Trump has in a sin­gle term.
When con­sid­er­ing those judges, we must con­sid­er that Trump lost the pop­u­lar vote to Hillary Clinton, is a sin­gle-term pres­i­dent, twice impeached, who orches­trat­ed a coup against his own coun­try after los­ing the elec­tions.
Now a Trump-appoint­ed judge is mak­ing a fur­ther mock­ery of the jus­tice sys­tem in Steve Bannon’s con­tempt of Congress con­vic­tion case. A fed­er­al judge on Wednesday declined a request to acquit Donald Trump’s for­mer pres­i­den­tial advis­er Steve Bannon on two con­tempt charges for defy­ing a sub­poe­na from a con­gres­sion­al com­mit­tee inves­ti­gat­ing the 2021 Capitol attack, but he left open the door to con­sid­er dis­miss­ing the charges instead.

A jury on Friday found Bannon, 68, guilty of two mis­de­meanor counts for refus­ing to pro­vide tes­ti­mo­ny or doc­u­ments to the House of Representatives select com­mit­tee as it scru­ti­nizes the Jan. 6, 2021, ram­page by Trump’s supporters.
In Wednesday’s rul­ing, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said Bannon’s last-ditch request for the court to acquit him of the charges lacked mer­it. “The court con­cludes that the evi­dence pre­sent­ed in the government’s case was suf­fi­cient to sus­tain a con­vic­tion,” Nichols wrote. However, the judge said he still wants both par­ties to pro­vide addi­tion­al legal briefs before he can rule on Bannon’s sec­ond request that Nichols dis­miss the charges.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.