Was there always corruption in the justice system?
You bet!!!
Black people have felt the brunt of the corruption within the criminal justice system, which has never been a system that works for them and still doesn’t today.
The remainder of Americans who are not under the spell of Donald Trump’s disinformation campaign will soon find out how a corrupt justice system destroys lives and kills dreams.
Legal experts have long argued there was absolutely no need for a special master to evaluate the documents taken from Donald Trump’s Mara Lago estate weeks ago. Yet one Judge hearing the unusual request from Trump hinted that she [would] consider granting one, much to the chagrin of the Department of Justice, which already had a filter team doing precisely what the special master will be tasked with doing. Usually, a special master would be granted to a lawyer whose offices were searched by law enforcement to filter and isolate privileged documents between that lawyer and their clients.
Legal experts and historians have argued that there is no precedent for a former president to be granted a special master; he is not a lawyer.
Trump’s disregard and contempt for the rule of law exposes a serious fault in the criminal justice system.‘It was not designed to hold rich, old, white men accountable for their crimes.
Donald Trump appointed more judges to the federal bench in his single contentious twice impeached term than most presidents do in two. Donald Trump and Mitch Mcconnell knew exactly what they were doing. It was always a part of the plan to corrupt the federal judiciary, and we have seen what his three appointees to the supreme court have done to Roe V Wade and other decisions.
District Judge Aileen Cannon gave Donald Trump an unprecedented victory on Monday when she acquiesced to Trump’s unusual demand that a special master is appointed to review the FBI’s documents from Trump’s estate in Florida last month.
Aileen Cannon was born in Cali, Colombia, she is of Hispanic descent, and her mother is reportedly a Cuban refugee.
This should tell you all you need to know, Aileen Cannon is not just another Cuban Hispanic Republican sycophant, she is an out of control loose cannon.
The DOJ can appeal this egregious and wrong-headed decision, but that may not make a difference even if an appellate court overturned that decision.
Trump would simply appeal that decision to the supreme court, where he has at least five votes on lock to do his bidding.
This democracy is royally screwed.
.Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.