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Another attack on American democracy that ultra-partisan Democrat prosecutor Fanni Willis is doing in Georgia is trying to criminalize the contesting of a questionable election. This has been accepted part of American democracy since our founding and now Willis wants to distort the law to criminalize it. Even in Georgia, there is one of Willis' fellow leftwing black Democrat women who ran for governor just a few short years ago and makes similar charges that Trump did about her own election, but with a whole lot less basis. This is one of the clear double standards the left is dividing our judicial system with.

Indeed, democracy abroad abounds with open challenges of election results. Earlier this year, the German state of Berlin had a new election that changed the result after the first election was successfully challenged in the Constitutional Court. The city of London in the UK reran an election in the Tower Hamlets district after a successful challenge due to election fraud there. The entire parliamentary election in Ukraine was re-run after the first election was successfully challenged in the Constitutional Court in the Orange Revolution case. I had the privelege to meet the two Ukrainian lawyers who won that case when I hired them to train political party lawyers in Moldova.

Commented: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 10:59 am By: Steven P. Rader

Stan, if you are referring to the phone call Raffensberger recorded from Trump that the Democrats make such a big deal over, if you listen to the whole thing instead of the snippet they push, he is making a point to Raffensberger about why he needs a full recount as the hurdle he has to get over is fairly small. There is nothing at all criminal about pushing for a full recount. Heck a LOT of Democrats have done that and then claimed to find new boxes of ballots in closets, trunks of cars, and whereever that just happen to be mostly Democrat. That has happened in several races for Senate, governor, or Congress. Never any criminal investigations but they have stolen a number of public offices that way.

I have never known of Republicans in recounts to claim finding "missing" ballot boxes. They have just wanted a second look to see if things were counted correctly. In Georgia, there were some really questionable activities in the election night count, especially the mail in ballot count for Fulton County, where they ran off the election observers. What was recorded on a security camera that they apparently did not know was filming was appalling to say the least.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 10:34 am By: Steven P. Rader

Those who are sadly destroying the American judicial system are the Democrats who are using it for power politics to try to destroy their political enemies. The things they now want to call crimes were not considered crimes in the past but they now make up their own interpretation of laws.

The Gore camp did a lot more to try to manipulate an election in 2000, than what the Democrats are claiming on Trump, but there was not even a hint of prosecution then. Some of the shananigans they were involved in to try to change the result in Florida, required the US Supreme Court to step in and shut the Gore Democrats down.

The Gore Democrats did not stop there. They tried to get members of the Electoral College to change their votes to Gore. Having myself been a member of that Electoral College from North Carolina, I well remember that. Somehow, they got my email address and that of other Electors and flooded our inboxes with emails asking us to break the law and not vote for Bush. They even got some phone numbers and harassed us by telephone. These were open solicitations asking us as Electors to break the law. Nothing was ever prosecuted or even investigated from that.

In Georgia, what President Trump was asking Raffensberger for was a full recount of ballots instead of the limited recount Raffensberger called for. That is what Trump is being prosecuted for. The Gore people were breaking the law in Florida in the course of an actual full recount, and they were soliciting presidential Electors to break the law. None of that was even investigated.

This is a new world in American politics of using courts to punish political enemies. Some are calling it lawfare, a take on "warfare". It is a disgusting perversion of our legal system.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 10:14 am By: Steven P. Rader

Hmm, I guess that’s a no. The country is divided Stan. Nobody will be removed. One side wins a little, then the other side wins a little. Learn to compromise or pass from this earth a bitter old man.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 9:20 am By: Big Bob

No Stan. None of that is happening. You Ok buddy?

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 9:02 am By: Big Bob

Big Bob: The Non Patriot Left, your group, has already destroyed our "Rule of Law", by whoring it out, compliments of the worst American Citizens, possibly ever. It will be up to the best of US Republicans to reinstall a Constitutional Republic, and remove the Non Patriot Left's stench and stain..

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 9:08 am By: Stan Deatherage

KANGAROO COURT. Where DEMOCRACY goes to die.

Twisting and distorted the law and strongarming other people they indict to parrot their narrative is abuse of prosecutorial power for election interferance. These political hack prosecutors need to be indicted and jailed for the rest of their lives for their attacks on American democracy. These are indeed "trumped up" charges.

And who can forget that this crooked prosecutor in Georgia is the daughter of a leader of the racist terrorist group, the Black Panthers.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 7:51 am By: Conservative Voter

RH: If these Leftist fools want to be treated where "No one is above the law" Trump style, they will all be in prison at some point.

How may years will former President Biden spend in prison; will Hunter ever get out.

Killary will definitely be in for Life. And Obama has some questions to answer about some recent events.

And what about Comey the Crook? How many years will Comey get? We could have some fun with this. Start building the federal prisons.

Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Meadows granted immunity, flips on Trump.

Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 7:01 pm By: Big Bob

Meadows granted immunity, flips on Trump.

Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 6:44 pm By: Big Bob

Big Bob: Do you realize that Steve Rader has been an attorney for many decades, and well understands the machinations of politics from the constitutional base point to the point of dealing with real people, their needs, but not to the detriment of this Representative Republic?

To announce that what Steve Rader writes, which I have the distinct honor to publish on this expansive platform, by you sophistic words, "None of what you posted is actually true," is an extreme dismissal of a subject that you proved you do not understand.

If you can just pull yourself away from bathing yourself in the banality of what constitutes a Leftist, and learn to argue an issue on its face, you might gain at least the respect of those that understand a multiplicity issues at their core here on Eastern NC NOW.

I might not agree, in total, with every bit of advice and wisdom I have been afforded by Steve, but, it is a rare discussion with Steve that I do not pull out far more than an acorn of pure truth, and at this point in my existence, I am not easily impressed, and am wise to learn from truly wise words where ever I can find them.

Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 2:30 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You are clueless, Bob. One of the things that pressures defendants in criminal cases is the enormously high cost of criminal defense, which can ruin people financially from a major case. Sure Trump cannot be pressured on that because he is very wealthy, but neither can the poor because the taxpayers are paying for their appointed lawyers. It is the MIDDLE CLASS defendants that feels this pressure. They have neither the money of the wealthy nor the free lawyers of the poor.

It is the middle class targets of this partisan prosecutor who are vulnerable to this pressure. If they do not dance to her tune, they face financial ruin and potential heavy jail time. It not about truth, it is about conforming to her narrative. When this is going on in a political prosecution, as it is, then democracy in our country is hanging by a thread.

Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 11:26 am By: Steven P. Rader