Great quote here on why this trial matters so much…and reveals so much about where we are at now as a nation:
“The conviction of the former president in a Manhattan courtroom was preordained. With the inexorable verdict, the ideals of a fair trial and an impartial jury faded into a figment of our Founders’ imaginations. They knew that the worst oppression is done by the color of law. They feared it and tried to prevent it. So, they, too, have lost.”
The Founders greatest fear was not that criminals would break the law, but rather that the law would become the facile tool of criminals and tyrants.
It took 236 years, but that fear has now come to fruition. A sad day and I’m not sure this is a Rubicon we can ever uncross.
“The conviction of the former president in a Manhattan courtroom was preordained. With the inexorable verdict, the ideals of a fair trial and an impartial jury faded into a figment of our Founders’ imaginations. They knew that the worst oppression is done by the color of law. They feared it and tried to prevent it. So, they, too, have lost.”
The Founders greatest fear was not that criminals would break the law, but rather that the law would become the facile tool of criminals and tyrants.
It took 236 years, but that fear has now come to fruition. A sad day and I’m not sure this is a Rubicon we can ever uncross.
