Imagine for a moment that Donald Trump attempted to grant clemency to mass murderers motivated by racial hatred. Yet here we have the left openly cheering for these people to get a second chance at life, spitting on the graves of their victims.

It should be noted that the Wall Street Journal just issued a damning report with countless sources who indicate President Biden has been mentally incompetent from day one, essentially serving as a puppet to his handlers.

Whoever is forcing Biden's hand on this matter - whether it's Garland, the 'Squad,' or some fresh-faced college progressive interns - it is definitively evil.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) excoriated the idea of commuting the sentences of those on death row during remarks on the Senate floor earlier this week.

"Let’s be clear what commuting these sentences would mean," he said. "It would mean that the laws passed by Congress and applied by our judges and juries have no value."

"It would mean that progressive politics is more important to the President than the lives taken by these murderers," added McConnell. "It would mean that society’s most forceful condemnation of white supremacy and antisemitism must give way to legal mumbo jumbo."

According to polling from Gallup in October 2024, approximately 53 percent of Americans still support the death penalty. //

OrneryCoot
2 hours ago
I thought that I realized just how utterly evil, despicable, and without morals Biden and his fellow Democrats were. I, apparently, was wrong.

While it is highly unusual for a judge to remand into immediate custody for a nonviolent offender like Grillo, Lamberth has been portrayed as a heavy-handed judge in the January 6 cases. Prominent January 6 journalist Julie Kelly has described Lamberth as "one of the cruelest judges," as well as a monster, evil and heartless. Her criticism of him is based on his harsh treatment of defendants, his political statements about January 6 and Donald Trump during court proceedings, and a lack of judicial temperament. //

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These prosecutors and Judge Lamberth are monsters. Evil, heartless, and cruel. Once again, this fossil Reagan-appointed judge sentences a trespasser to jail time and a lengthy probation to cover the next presidential election.

Political prisoners. Any comment , @MittRomney?
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Capitol trespasses are routinely dispensed with non-criminal plea deals that do not result in incarceration.

DO NOT complain about Putin if you are supporting this authoritarian gulaging.

Great work, @EpochJoe64.

https://m.theepochtimes.com/60-days-jail-3-years-probation-for-north-carolina-man-who-did-fist-bumps-took-selfies-at-the-us-capitol_4336850.html
9:40 PM · Mar 14, 2022 //

DaveM anon-h4d3
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There is a remedy but it requires cojones- which continues to be in extremely short supply among elected Congressional Republicans. That that remedy includes impeachment and removal from the bench followed by criminal prosecution for deprivation of rights under color of authority.
You will never get conviction in DC but lets let this Judge experience personally what it routinely dished out to others.

The Biden administration has indicted at least 37 individuals on charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act. In just over three years, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has accounted for more than a quarter of all FACE Act charges in the law's 30-year history. Notably, this includes the frequent use of a novel sentence enhancement, signaling a weaponization in the application of this law under the current administration.

The FACE Act itself is a prime example of federal overreach and an infringement on First Amendment rights. While the federal law applies both to conduct committed at abortion clinics and at pro-life facilities like pregnancy centers, enforcement has historically shown a focus on protecting access to abortion services. Thus, it has morphed into a tool for the selective persecution of pro-life advocates.

President-elect Donald Trump has a golden opportunity to correct this imbalance. In addition to his commendable promise to address the injustices faced by those involved in the January 6 protests, whom he rightly calls political prisoners, he should extend this mercy to these pro-life activists. Pardoning the twelve individuals currently imprisoned under the FACE Act would not only right a wrong but also send a strong message against the misuse of power by the Biden DOJ.

The repeal of the FACE Act is equally imperative. This law has no place in a society that values free speech, assembly, and the right to protest without fear of reprisal. It's an outdated piece of legislation that no longer serves its intended purpose in a post-Roe v. Wade America, where states are reclaiming their authority over abortion laws.

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Daniel Penny has been found NOT guilty of all charges.

Glory to God for justice
11:32 AM · Dec 9, 2024

piscorman
2 hours ago
About Social Science, my physics teacher used to say, "If they have to call it science, it isn't." The same thing applies to Social Justice.

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I'm sorry, but I am finding it hard to believe this is proper. The jury has twice now said they are deadlocked. That's a hung jury on that count.
The judge is effectively dismissing it (but can he?) so they can consider C2.
I can't find a single case supporting this approach.
Nicole
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Manslaughter charge against Penny is officially DISMISSED, over defense objection. Dismissed by the court, not the DA. Jury will be told this right now.
3:50 PM · Dec 6, 2024. //

As of now, this entire thing seems to be rigged against Penny, with the judge and prosecution working hand-in-glove, and that's a travesty for him and whatever public trust was left in the justice system. These judges and prosecutors are out of control.

Penny's last hope is that the jury deadlocks on the second charge as well and that justice prevails here despite the machinations of the "justice system." Deliberations will continue on Monday, which means an entire weekend of possible pressure being applied. How convenient for the judge and prosecution, right?

The very idea that a blanket preemptive pardon would be handed out is an anathema to the very idea of justice because it would occur before any charges were made. And it would prevent any charges from ever being leveled. As such, the idea of preemptive clemency simply gives one carte blanche to act in any manner he/she sees fit while in office, provided they have the expectation of pardon. //

I don't see how this leads to anything but a pathway to the abuse of political power. //

If you cannot ever have a trial, then a guy like Mayorkas can treat the entire country like his own little fiefdom and forever change the United States culturally, socially, and legally. All on his own. And with a blanket and preemptive pardon, presidential cabinet members, NGOs, and partisan bureaucrats have the freedom to make policy that we didn't vote for and probably never would.

What the progressives could gain, if Markey were to get his Christmas wish, is a short-term insurance policy against prosecution for guys like Mayorkas, or John Brennan, or Mark Milley, but it will set a precedent for long-term abuse by presidents in the future. Trump could employ the same tactics, and while the progs would scream and shout, there wouldn't be much they could do about it legally, not to mention the fact that they were the ones who started rolling that snowball down the hill in the first place. //

Now, for Trump, if he were to find himself in the position where he could not prosecute certain individuals for treason or malfeasance, perhaps he could at least have them investigated. The products of such interrogatories might not lead to any charges because of the pardons, but at least such "fact-finding endeavors" might illuminate what abuses (if any) actually occurred so that we could avoid more in the future. This information would be made public to the electorate, and from that, what happens happens.

Tearing down institutions and traditions tears apart a society, a country. Sure, things can evolve over time, but to rip stuff out by the roots all at once is very reckless. Issuing preemptive pardons before any charges are even leveled prevents justice because we never have an opportunity to find out if it was ever being served in the first place. Did Mayorkas break the border all of his own volition just because he felt like it? Was he instructed to do it? If so, by whom? Who does he report to? Oh...the president. //

Billy Wallace
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Pardoning everyone in your administration will be the new normal if Biden does it

if Biden does it, Trump most certainly will in January 2029, and why wouldn't he? I would

it will just become standard operating procedure, as will issuing an executive order declaring any and all records and documents in your possession to be declassified personal records

During a Monday night panel on Fox News’ Hannity, investigative journalist John Solomon, editor of Just the News, and Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett discussed the ongoing risks facing Hunter and the Biden family. //

Solomon said, “You can’t bring criminal charges against Hunter Biden, but there’s nothing that prevents the Trump Justice Department from filing a fraud case and seeking civil remedy and taking money from him and other members of the family on allegations that they reported false information. They committed fraud. Those are things that are still on the table. A pardon doesn’t protect you from civil actions.”

“He no longer will be able to deny or say ‘I don’t want to testify in any proceedings because I invoke my Fifth Amendment right against incrimination.’ The president took that away from him, so he’s going to have to testify if he’s compelled.”. //

The panel unanimously agreed that the pardon was more than just a selfless gesture from a loving father. Its broad immunity, covering the period from January 2014 to December 2024, revealed its true intent. As I mentioned yesterday, 2014 marked the beginning of Hunter’s tenure on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. This was the year the family’s influence-peddling operation ramped up, and the flow of money began.

It wasn't publicly revealed until July that Cassidy had been suing the Georgia Department of Corrections to receive a "sex change" operation as part of his "gender-affirming care" routine, which already includes taxpayer-funded hormone treatments. That's because the lawsuit he filed was under the name "Jane Doe." Yes, the guy with multiple forgery convictions is a man who wants to "become" a woman."

That's where things get even crazier. The same DOJ that charged Cassidy in April for trying to bomb the DOJ, filed an amicus brief in support of Cassidy's lawsuit to receive a taxpayer-funded "sex change" surgery" in January. So the DOJ was investigating Cassidy as a man (eventually charging him as one in court documents) while another sector of the DOJ was filing an amicus brief claiming Cassidy is a woman who should receive "gender-affirming care" in prison. You can't make this stuff up.

Now, Cassidy is set to receive the operation after the "Gender Dysphoria Committee" recommended it. //

In this case, the DOJ charged a man with federal crimes while the activists within the agency were fighting to treat him as a "woman" complete with a taxpayer-funded "sex change" surgery. Normal people see this type of stuff, and they are sick of it. They don't want to pay for "gender-affirming care" for violent criminals (or anyone for that matter).

This story is yet another reason why the DOJ needs a complete overhaul, and I don't just mean firing a few agency heads. The rank-and-file are just as guilty of perpetuating these woke policies. Hopefully, Pam Bondi understands what she's walking into and that she's ready to do what it takes.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized the pair of "partisan Democrat district judges" after they announced plans to "unretire" after "the American people voted to fire Democrats last month."

"Looking to history, only two judges have ever unretired after a presidential election. One Democrat in 2004 and one Republican in 2009. But now, in just a matter of weeks, Democrats have already met that all-time record. It's hard to conclude that this is anything other than open partisanship," McConnell said in remarks delivered on the Senate floor.

The circumstances in these two cases are remarkably similar. Two men confronted on a subway train, a confined space, by an unpredictable, potentially violent individual. One witness in the Penny case stated that, while she did not see a weapon on Jordan Neely, she said, "But I truly felt that he was most likely armed."

The outcomes in these cases, however, are very different. Jordan Williams killed Devictor Quedraogo on June 13, 2023. It took a little more than two weeks for a Grand Jury to decline to indict him on the manslaughter and weapon possession charges. Daniel Penny's fate is now in the hands of a jury. Besides the outcomes, there is also another difference. Jordan Williams is black; Daniel Penny is white.

These are both cases of self-defense, and one might also argue, being a good Samaritan, looking out for fellow subway passengers. Daniel Penny has not been charged with any hate crimes, yet his life hangs in the balance. If there is a racial component in the Penny case, it has been created by the prosecutor herself. Manhattan prosecutor Dafna Yoran claims that Penny "didn't recognize that Jordan Neely was a person" and merely "saw him as a person that needed to be eliminated." Yet Yoran allowed witnesses to describe Penny as "the white man" and even a "murderer." Really? So, is it okay to dehumanize some people but not others? Penny's defense team rightly objected to the language and asked for a mistrial but was denied

Retiring West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a former Democrat who turned independent in May in hopes of saving his career in what has become a solidly red state, has a suggestion for Joe Biden: pardon Donald Trump.

After all, the president just pardoned his son Hunter for tax and gun crimes after telling the world for months that he would do no such thing. Pardoning Trump would be the only to make this look less like the corrupt maneuver that it so clearly is, Manchin told CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday:

Joe Biden granted his son Hunter Biden a sweeping pardon on Sunday covering any possible crimes between Jan. 1, 2014, and right up through Dec. 1, 2024. This despite lying and saying he would not do such a thing. It shows you just how much Joe Biden's word means. His action is truly unprecedented in its breadth. But that may not be all -- there may be more coming from Joe Biden between now and Jan. 20. //

The pardon wasn't just for the things to which Hunter had pled guilty, which Joe claimed involved "selective prosecution." That was a nonsense claim to begin with. If anything, the "selectivity" was in not prosecuting him for years for all the behavior that was revealed on the laptop. It meant there would be no prosecution for any federal crime including the alleged foreign influence questions that could touch Joe Biden. Notice the pardon started from Jan. 1, 2014. Hunter joined the Burisma board that year. It also covers all the time that Joe Biden was occupying the Oval Office up until Dec. 1 and Biden meeting or talking with Hunter's business associates. //

But what Biden has done is made it impossible to criticize any pardon that President-elect Donald Trump might give, when Biden is willing to go this low with his son and lie about it. This is true, especially if Biden pardons himself. Not that the MSM wouldn't go after Trump anyway for pardoning J6ers or any other pardon. Of course they will, and they'll talk about how it's destroying all the norms -- that Biden already imploded.

They will have no credibility in doing so, and Biden is going to cost the Democrats even more damage to their brand with his actions.

He said the Biden DOJ had gone after Democrats from New Jersey (Sen. Bob Menendez) and Texas (Rep. Henry Cuellar), as though that was an excuse. "I mean, the deep state. Nobody's ever defined it, apparently. Just means anybody who doesn't do the will of Donald Trump," Raskin said.

So, any weaponization you thought you were seeing is just all in your mind, kids. The last several years didn't happen. The Russia collusion and the lawfare against Trump never happened, nor did the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop.

But if what he's saying is right, then he has no real reason to object to Patel.

If Patel wants to exorcise the "Deep State" and it isn't there, no harm, no foul. What is he worried about?

The fact that Raskin supports Wray tells you why Wray should be gone. But further, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) explained the problem with Wray wasn't his "independence" but that he was a failure, including in complying with oversight. He called for charting a new course for transparency and accountability.

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Chris Wray has failed at fundamental duties of FBI Dir He’s showed disdain for cong oversight & hasn’t lived up to his promises It’s time 2 chart a new course 4 TRANSPARENCY +ACCOUNTABILITY at FBI

Kash Patel must prove to Congress he will reform &restore public trust in FBI
8:24 AM · Dec 1, 2024 //

NavyVet Retired Professor
6 hours ago
If you keep track, I believe you'll find a high correlation between those objecting to Kash and those on Epstein's flight list.

So, by inference, Raskin was an Epstein regular. //

GBenton
6 hours ago
Grassley's tweet is too mild. Wray presided over the persecution of Christians, parents, and political opponents. He should have to answer for that abuse of power. Kash Patel is the right guy for the job.

Furthermore, Patel had virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency.

If I could only write one more sentence for this article, it would be this: I can't think of a better endorsement for Patel to serve as FBI director than that. //

, the idea that the FBI should perpetually staff itself is exactly how it became a corrupt agency more intent on protecting "the shield" and damaging its political enemies than serving the American people. The bureau is not a fourth branch of government, free from the confines of the accountability of voters.

Trump was not elected to keep the status quo rolling, and those using Barr's 2022 quote to try to attack Patel's nomination should realize they are irrelevant. //

To put it frankly, the FBI has forfeited any right to claim sovereignty and "independence." Too much has transpired, and if any of the rank-and-file have a problem with the coming reforms, they are welcome to quit.

Further, the fact that so many left-wingers are freaking out only serves as more evidence that Patel is the right man for the job. //

No, we aren't heading for a "constitutional crisis" because the FBI is not a constitutional agency. It is a bloated, corrupt bureaucracy under the direct leadership of the president and one in desperate need of a house cleaning. It is not in question whether the bureau has abused its power to go after the political enemies of the left. That demands a reckoning, and a reckoning is coming whether the Beltway elites like it or not. //

msctex
2 hours ago
The overall Leftist Constitutional Crisis is very real, but entirely rooted in their growing realization they simply can no longer find a way to exist with it still in play.

So it is that much a Leftist Constitutional Existential Crisis. //

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2 hours ago
The confirmation process will expose the RINO droppings who will become primary targets at their next election.

Recess appointments will become the rage as PDJT predicted.

Now that Donald Trump is headed to the White House, he has to make a decision vital to the Republic's health. Over the last eight years, President Trump and his allies have been the subject of a non-stop stream of lawfare attacks designed to cripple him while he was president and later, after he peacefully turned over the reigns of power to the addled Joe Biden, to imprison him for what could have been the rest of his life. The campaign to jail him was clearly a conspiracy involving Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis.

The extent to which the civil cases against him were coordinated with the criminal cases has never, as far as I know, been explored, but it is hard to imagine that it did not exist. This use of the judicial system to attempt to impoverish and imprison political opponents is foreign to the United States and to its founding principles. The decision that Trump has to make is to either ignore the attacks calculated to ruin his life or should he be faithful to the promise he made at CPAC in March 2023, seek retribution.

In 2016, I declared I am your voice. Today I add I am your Warrior, I am your Justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your Retribution. //

Here is where we'd part company. These people tried to imprison Trump for what would have statistically been the rest of his life. They went after the January 6 protesters using a patent over-expansion of the law that the Supreme Court had to smack it down: Supreme Court Hands Down Blockbuster Ruling in Case That Will Impact Multiple J6 Defendants. Even now, Garland's prosecutors are fighting to extend misdemeanor sentences into terms lasting years behind bars because the Supreme Court repudiated them.

As recounted in our posts on Garland's thugs bringing a false and malicious prosecution against a pro-life demonstrator, these people were willing to lie to put their political enemies behind bars and to try and intimidate them. //

Just remember, the convictions are icing on the cake. The process is the punishment. A battalion of bankrupted and unemployable DOJ lawyers and FBI agents living in refrigerator cartons under bridges across the country would provide a daily lesson to what happens when you abuse your power and try to deprive other people of their freedom and livelihoods. //

Only when we've plowed the soil of the Deep State with salt can we talk about a truce. But the personal damage we inflict over the next four years, in terms of jail time, bankruptcies, and legal judgments, must so terrify that second tier of Deep Staters that no matter what another batch of Democrat operatives cook up, they will refuse to get involved. //

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With humans being human, and all, a caution against abuses from our side is warranted. Trump will not humiliate a fellow president to advance a political ball or satiate his righteously outraged supporters and he's been clear about that much. The best, and, in general, the only, truly sustainable preventive measure is the vigilence of an informed electorate, and it worked precisely as forseen by the Founders even in the face of globalist headwinds. This time. There's a bigger picture here than an eye for an eye. If we get lost in it, which I could so easily find myself doing after eight years of political jujitsu, we'll lose the better of what MAGA can do for Americans and the world. My two cents. Now I'll go back to streaming the View and watching Ellen's English mansion flood because I do get a kick out of witnessing the cosmic justice of their all-consuming and well-earned misery. A guilty pleasure, I know. (I just don't care. Well, I just don't care yet, anyway.) I believe the left calls it self-care! //

anon-o62w
7 hours ago
It's not revenge. It's not payback. It's a crime against the American People. There must be some severe ramifications to deter this tactic by either party in the future. Trumps cases were manufactured. People in power colluded. If proven..jail. Like anyone else. It's not just Trump..it's Jan 6ers, Rudy G....the list is endless. The mistake is Trump is targeted because he's Trump. Believe me, DeSantis, Vance..they will be victims next cycle if the full weight of the law is not brought down on officials who have engaged in this tactic. //

GBenton
6 hours ago
Andy McCarthy is a muppet. He got the Russia Russia thing wrong and a lot more. They all need to pay with reciprocal lawfare for one key reason he failed to address: Trump was innocent but they are actually guilty.

So it's not even lawfare, though I would be fine with reciprocal lawfare either way for reasons this post states already. But the fact is we have to restore the rule of law and prove no one is above it, least of all those who abused power. They must be made to care, as the saying goes, or we will never see the end of this.

On top of everyone mentioned in this post, the folks who engage in voter and election fraud need prison time. If we do not secure our elections we will someday no longer have a country. I do not believe the left can win national elections without illegal aliens and dead people and bogus ballots. We need voter ID, but we also need to absolutely crucify those who stole any elections within the statute of limitations, mostly figuratively speaking but I'm open to literally, too, if they are convicted because stealing elections should be regarded as akin to treason.

Abolute power corrupts absolutely - and the ability to steal elections is simply too dangerous to let be a feature of our process. Paper ballots, voter ID, and life sentences for cheaters and those who organize and fund cheating.

Then we can deal with the media who do nothing but gaslight us with Democrat propaganda. //

Marek76
8 hours ago
Forget the higher ground, justified prosecution for actual crimes is essential if we are to be a nation of laws. The DOJ needs to fear accountability if they abuse their power.

A scathing new report claims that the Biden administration's Department of Education's (ED) enforcement actions were focused at least 70 percent on Christian and career-based schools, even though they represent less than 10 percent of the students in the nation. This uncovers an unseen campaign that persisted over the administration's term and can hardly be seen as impartial.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-report-shows-70-biden-administrations-education-enforcement-targeted-christian-colleges

Musicman
13 hours ago
So much for the Constitutional Right to face your accuser. If true, this is the cherry on top that proves beyond all doubt that Merrick Garland is a partisan hack. Thank God he didn’t make it to the Supreme Court.

NavyVet Musicman
13 hours ago
"no one cares about this anymore"?
I do. This is a deliberate and malicious swipe at the president-elect, hence an effort to divide and harm our country. It is an indicted ham sandwich, selectively packaged "evidence" that buries all exculpatory evidence.

It angers me, and it calls for a thorough investigation by a trustworthy special counsel. I nominate Sidney Powell. Let that bulldog go after those scumbags and ruin their lives, just like they have been doing to Trump and everyone close to him. //

GreenLanternMD Largo Patriot
12 hours ago
If they had anything persuasive, they would have released it before the election. //

emptypockets
11 hours ago
"full of sound and fury signifying nothing".

Incoming AG Bondi should respond, not Trump. She should begin by noting--clearly and loudly that Smith was an illegally appointed SC. Remind that many others also "mishandled classified docs" including Biden who treated them like a pack rat stashing shinies. Ones he never HAD any right to have while ALL Trump's were his to legally remove as POTUS.

Then she could add that she would be doing some deep cleaning, reviewing of records which should be carefully NOT "lost" or heads might indeed roll sooner than even she expected.

This is sore loser-itis highly inflamed. Maybe someone still loves them enough to give them an ointment for that. Not me, though.

More than 120 corporate giants have just issued a joint letter putting themselves squarely on the side of patent infringers and against America’s smaller innovative companies.

They present their case in the appealing-sounding language of “disclosure” and “transparency.” But when smaller inventors are in court trying to enforce their lawful patent rights against infringement, the main effect of a sweeping new disclosure requirement would be lengthier proceedings, more expenses, and a big advantage for deep-pocketed infringers.

The letter’s proposal, now under consideration in Congress in draft legislation known as the Litigation Transparency Act, is aimed directly at the ability of such inventors to pay legal bills and other expenses they incur when they go to court to enforce their patents. The legislation would impose a strict disclosure requirement on sources of funding for their lawsuits.

Yet such funding has nothing to do with whether infringement has taken place and, if so, what damages are due. For the sake of smaller inventors who depend heavily on intellectual property rights, this legislation needs to go back to the drawing board.

The letter-writers and Rep. Darrell Issa, the legislation’s author, claim that withholding information about financing is “unfair” and “fundamentally alters the dynamics” of legal cases.

I disagree. Rather, imposing invasive disclosure requirements would reduce or eliminate funding, and therefore, access to justice.

America’s startups and small businesses are facing unprecedented attacks on their intellectual property. Rather than taking the proper steps to legally license patent rights on their product, some wealthy corporations are simply appropriating the patented technologies they want. When caught, they call on their vast financial resources to prolong lawsuits and make them as expensive as possible. In many cases, such tactics have forced startups to surrender or, at best, settle out of court for a fraction of their losses.

Though unfair, the practice is frequently effective. It’s known as “efficient” or “predatory” infringement.

Infringers simply treat any damages they end up paying as a cost of doing business. In fact, predatory infringement is so pervasive that CEOs are willing to boast about it publicly. //

Courts have demonstrated their ability to strike an appropriate balance between transparency and safeguarding privileged information. An invasive mandatory disclosure rule would place small businesses and startups at a disadvantage by revealing their legal strategies and financial resources. Infringers could exploit this information to prolong trials, inundate opponents with motions and challenges to court filings, and launch damaging harassment campaigns against third-party investors.

A convicted felon said he was paying the legal fees of Matt Gaetz’s accuser and controlling her. //

Among the many powerful figures in Washington, D.C. opposed to the Gaetz nomination are some who are attempting to thwart it by releasing a report from the House Ethics Committee that will attempt to tie Gaetz to salacious allegations involving child sex trafficking.

The report comes years after DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims on the grounds that the two central witnesses had serious credibility issues. Yet these are the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz—the same report it is leaking to compliant reporters as part of a coordinated effort to thwart his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general. //

Yet even the DOJ was unwilling to exploit Greenberg’s unsubstantiated claims — apart from leaking them to the press to hurt Gaetz’s reputation. They announced their closure of the investigation in 2022. //

The DOJ decided that the people making the accusations against Gaetz had such massive credibility problems that they could in no way charge him with any crimes. All the House Ethics Committee has done is revive those same accusations from the same unreliable witnesses.