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The Good Rule of Law and the Tolerated Bad Results
Merrick Garland Will Be Defeated by Trump
The rule of law means one thing. The practice, quite another. That is why you hear so much about the laws that passed and the reverence for them.
But no top white politician will be held accountable — Trump, Gaetz, or the other enablers who conspired in the coup. We do treat them differently. They may not be above, but they act that way because enforcement is radically different.
Black Americans probably know this better than whites. They might know the outcomes are radically racially different. This historic law, that historic amendment, thee sacred constitution. How many more civil rights bills do we need if they still get hassled and blocked? So many ideals and supposed “corrections” are frequently called upon. Because if the federal government had to actually carry all these grandiose laws out, we wouldn’t be living in this America. We would be living in the one that was promised in the Declaration and the Constitution, a full democracy.
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Pick any day of the week and some government politician will be pronouncing with ideological zeal something great about America’s laws and Acts on either “side” of the aisle. Here’s one great quote from AG Merrick Garland just uttered when swearing in new citizens at Ellis…
