Today’s civic lesson is a bit about how the American justice system is supposed to work. If you do a crime and you are proven guilty of doing that crime; you should have to go to jail or prison as a punishment, depending on the severity of the said crime. I would think, as an American citizen and certainly, as the President or a past president of the United States of America, if you do a crime that involves potentially putting this nation in jeopardy of an attack from a foreign nation, there should be no question about jail time. You should have to go to jail.
Here’s the latest of misbehaving former president Donald Trump.
Donald Trump was hit with a 37-count indictment from the special counsel’s office Friday, June 9. The indictment alleges that Donald Trump, the 44th President of the United States, willfully retained documents containing the nation’s most sensitive secrets, including nuclear programs, after he left office, showed some of them on at least two occasions, and then tried to obstruct the investigation into their whereabouts.
Federal prosecutors unsealed the indictment Friday against the former President and his aide Walt Nauta in connection with his handling of government documents. The court papers allege that the classified documents included “defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”
Boxes of those documents were allegedly stored in various locations around Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, including a ballroom stage and a bathroom, according to federal prosecutors.
The federal government also alleged that Trump directed an obstruction into the investigation, instructing attorneys and aides to move the boxes and block attempts from the federal government from retrieving them. According to the indictment, Trump allegedly told his attorneys after he got a subpoena to return the documents, “I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t.”
He also asked, “What happens if we just don’t respond at all?”
I don’t know if Donald Trump thinks he’s above the law or if he thinks “white privilege” will let him slip through the cracks of the justice system once again, but this time I don’t think so. This latest indictment is major and serious as far as I am concerned. Donald Trump needs to pay for his actions. I know that in America the justice system says you are innocent until proven guilty, however in the case of one Donald Trump, he has done so many illegal things and taken actions to disrespect our nation and the law of the land, he could not get one more “free” get out of jail pass. It’s time for him to pay for his crimes. Trump is slated to be arraigned on Tuesday in a Florida federal court.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and criticized the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney general’s office for conducting a political “witch hunt.”
The 49-page indictment includes, several transcripts, surveillance footage, notes from at least one of his lawyers, audio recordings, and other evidence that federal prosecutors claim Trump knowingly kept top-secret documents and endangered national security.
The other big story of this past week revolves around The Supreme Court. It’s another example of going through the steps, going through the legal process, and having the highest court in the land make a decision. It’s the American way.
According to a report written by John Kruzel of Reuters News Agency, Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s three liberals in a 5-4 ruling on Thursday that declared that a Republican-drawn electoral map in Alabama weakened the clout of Black voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act. The court’s conservatives, in two prior rulings since 2013, had rolled back protections under that 1965 law. Election law expert Ned Foley of Ohio State University Moritz College of Law called the ruling “a hugely important development for both the Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court more broadly.”
The decision requires Alabama to draw a second U.S. House of Representatives district where Black voters comprise a majority or close to it. In the invalidated map, six House districts in Alabama were white-majority – and just one Black majority – despite Black people comprising 27% of the state’s population.
“It was not just a win for Alabama; it was a win for democracy itself,” Representative Terri Sewell, the lone Black House Democrat from Alabama, told reporters.
Our civics lesson today is that sometimes, justice does work in favor of the people, all the people. The only problem is this is not the end of this story. It’s already been said that Republicans will try again, with another strategy, to turn back the hands of time to the old Jim Crow days. Stay woke people. Stay woke.
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