
The political fallout was explosive. Corporate media, Democrats, and BlueSky’s blue-checks were apoplectic, practically foaming at the mouth. In situ, silver-haired boomer protestors, supported by canes and walkers, popped up outside Dugan’s courthouse:
Progressive commenters saw the arrests as nothing less than an assault on the judiciary:
Speaking of Representative Raskin, the former chair of the J6 committee and one of the House impeachment prosecutors during Trump 1.0 called the arrests a “dangerous new front” in Trump’s war against judges:
Democrat media consultant David Doak, apparently having already forgotten four years of enthusiastic lawfare against the former president, and the rule of turnabout being fair play, announced the United States is
now officially a police state:
But some progressive legal experts were slightly more cautious. MSNBC’s legal expert, for example, wondered whether this was the “best way to handle” what are admittedly bad-looking facts for the judge. He said, “It doesn't look great for the judge, no matter how you slice it. But was this kind of escalatory action the best course of action, to actually go and arrest her, take her to court, and federally charge her? That's a big step.”
CLIP: progressive legal expert Ken Dilanian says at first blush, it looks bad (0:36).
In short, MSNBC’s expert Dilania called for ‘prosecutorial restraint.’ In other words, maybe judges
should be above the law after all,
if they’re on our team.
We tried to warn them. But they couldn’t conceive of Trump winning the election.
As Trump marks his first 100 days in office, the arrests of public officials begins. Get the real story here.
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