This week we have seen an unprecedented attack on our Judiciary. If we don’t speak up, and stand with those who have spoken truth to power, we will lose our justice system, and with it our nation’s democratic government.
As Rachel said last night, this is not the warning that it might happen, this is the moment it IS happening. Trump and Barr are bending the justice system to their benefit, interfering with the justice process, and with these actions destroying our nation.
I wrote the following to my local papers; perhaps you’ll find it helpful as you hopefully raise your voice. Trump can attack a person, or several people, but he will have much more trouble attacking the voice of the nation, because when everyone speaks up, it’s no longer a protest, it’s a movement.
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President Trump just attacked every adult citizen of the United States. He tweeted that the lead juror in the Roger Stone case had a bias. For the president to accuse this juror in any way is an assault on our rule of law, and an assault on every one of us who have or will have to serve on a jury. Jurors are citizens fulfilling their civic duty, to preside over our trial system. They are filtered by the court’s process to be “an impartial jury of the defendant’s peers”. They deserve respect and privacy and honor for their service. Trumps actions place this juror in danger, and threaten us all. Trumps attacks on witnesses and whistle blowers are attacks on all of us and our nation, for these people are simply doing the right thing, in accordance with our laws and judicial system.
Let it be known that I support their actions and stand with them. I am grateful for Ambassador Yovanovitch’s service, for Lt. Col. Vindman’s reporting to his supervisors and his testimony, and for all those who have acted on conscience when faced with the decision to be complicit or denounce wrong doing. I take the attack on the lead Juror personally, and I hope you will to. If we don’t speak up and support our judicial system now, we will lose it. Without Justice, we will not have a country.