{"id":2410949,"date":"2025-03-07T09:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-battle-against-weaponized-justice-heats-up\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:40:51","slug":"the-battle-against-weaponized-justice-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-battle-against-weaponized-justice-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle Against Weaponized Justice Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-battle-against-weaponized-justice-heats-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2410949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-cardona-as-ed-secretary-schools-got-worse-by-every-metric\/\" title=\"With Cardona As Ed Secretary, Schools Got Worse By Every Metric\">critically important decline<\/a> in Americans&#8217; trust in federal law enforcement and\u200d the judicial system, particularly under the Biden-Harris administration. A recent Gallup poll highlights that confidence in the U.S. judicial system has \u2062dropped \u200cto a \u200brecord\u200c low of 35%, \u200dwith only 41% approving of the FBI&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p>The piece emphasizes claims from supporters of Donald \u200dTrump,\u2063 suggesting that \u2062his legal battles are politically motivated attacks rather than legitimate legal actions.\u2064 Trump is portrayed as a victim of &#8220;weaponized\u200c justice&#8221; used by his political opponents to undermine his \u200bstanding. The article cites multiple legal challenges faced by Trump,\u2064 including four indictments and impeachment \u2064proceedings, expressing a belief that these \u200cactions \u200dare \u2064a coordinated effort to eliminate him from \u2062the\u2062 political arena.<\/p>\n<p>Testimonies from members of a House Judiciary\u200b Subcommittee reveal attempts to propose legislative reforms \u2063aimed\u200d at \u2064curbing what\u2064 they term &#8220;lawfare&#8221; \u2062by state prosecutors. Lawmakers highlight the need for a justice system \u200dinsulated from political influence\u200b and personal vendettas, asserting that the current state \u2062of affairs undermines public faith in justice.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the committee contest\u2064 the characterization of the prosecutions against\u200d Trump as politically motivated,\u200c arguing that they are simply upholding the rule of law.\u2062 The article \u2062presents a partisan perspective on \u200bthe issue,\u2062 showcasing the divisions\u200d within\u2063 Congress regarding reforms and the portrayal of\u2062 Trump\u2063 and his legal\u2064 troubles. it concludes with a\u200d call \u2062for a\u200b restoration of trust in\u200b the judicial system amid a backdrop \u200bof\u2063 significant political\u2062 polarization.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After four years of weaponized justice under the Biden-Harris regime, America is reaping what the left has sown. Americans&rsquo; confidence in federal law enforcement and the judicial system has hit an all-time low.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/653897\/americans-pass-judgment-courts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup poll<\/a> released in late December found faith in the U.S. judicial system and the courts fell to 35 percent in 2024 &mdash; a record low. Just 41 percent of Americans believe the FBI is doing an &ldquo;excellent&rdquo; or &ldquo;good job&rdquo;, according to a November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bowmanmarsico\/2024\/11\/19\/performance-matters-public-views-on-government-departments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup poll<\/a>. That&rsquo;s down from 53 percent the year before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats blame the man they love to hate, President Donald Trump. Those with eyes and ears know that Trump, the poster child subject of the modern-day political witch hunt, has done more to expose the mockery that the swamp, the Deep State, and his opponents on the left have made of the sacred tenet of blind justice than just about anyone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump overcame the most vindictive weaponization of the justice system against an American leader in our nation&rsquo;s history,&rdquo; Daniel Epstein, vice president of <a href=\"https:\/\/aflegal.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">America First Legal,<\/a> founded by top Trump advisor Stephen Miller, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/legislative-reforms-end-lawfare-state-and-local-prosecutors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government<\/a>&nbsp;at a <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/legislative-reforms-end-lawfare-state-and-local-prosecutors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hearing<\/a> this week on Capitol Hill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and former federal prosecutor, is pushing legislative reforms to end the rampant lawfare by state and local prosecutors &mdash; as shockingly evidenced in the left&rsquo;s coordinated efforts to take Trump out of the 2024 political equation. Of course they failed, but they left a stain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Epstein put it in perspective, by the numbers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Two impeachment[s] &hellip;, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/03\/jack-smiths-latest-indictment-is-legally-flawed-and-politically-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">four indictments<\/a>, one <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/27\/ny-judges-scrutinize-troubling-450-million-penalty-in-trump-fraud-case-no-one-lost-any-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$400 million judgment<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/28\/trumps-mugshot-is-a-symbol-of-the-rights-struggle-against-tyranny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one mugshot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/03\/04\/states-cant-remove-trump-from-ballot-supreme-court-says-00144673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three states<\/a> attempting to disqualify him from their ballots, two Democratic-nominated political opponents and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-willing-release-reports-his-assassination-attempts-could-suspicious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two assassination attempts<\/a> later, Democrats would finally claim their scalp when they obtained a conviction against President Trump in a New York state court weeks before the American people overwhelmingly re-elected him,&rdquo; Epstein said in his testimony before the panel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the American people saw through the &ldquo;coordinated hit job&rdquo; on Trump, whose conviction on a twisted interpretation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-blasts-bragg-over-trump-indictment-says-da-should-be-put-in-jail\/\" title=\"Rand Paul blasts Bragg over ... indictment, says &#039;DA should be put in jail&#039;\">federal campaign finance violation<\/a> came in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/30\/kangaroo-court-convicts-trump-following-soviet-show-trial-in-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Manhattan kangaroo court<\/a> presided over by a judge who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/30\/rigged-biden-donor-judge-whose-daughter-raised-millions-to-defeat-trump-oversaw-soviet-show-trial-conviction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donated<\/a> to Joe Biden&rsquo;s campaign and whose <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/30\/rigged-biden-donor-judge-whose-daughter-raised-millions-to-defeat-trump-oversaw-soviet-show-trial-conviction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">daughter<\/a> worked for the firm representing the Biden and Kamala Harris campaigns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Political Whims&rsquo; and &lsquo;Personal Vendettas&rsquo;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>From Manhattan District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/13\/paralegal-testimony-alvin-braggs-office-tampered-with-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alvin Bragg<\/a> and New York Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/27\/prosecute-the-architects-of-trump-lawfare-for-election-interference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letitia James<\/a> to Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/13\/garland-seeks-to-trample-americans-due-process-rights-to-get-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fani Willis<\/a>, all of whom campaigned on their hatred for Trump, political animus reigned at the center of the four indictments against the Republican president. Four days before Willis indicted Trump and 18 others on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2023-08-15\/trump-indictment-georgia-rico-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charges reserved for mobsters and gang members,<\/a> she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-fani-willis-cash-georgia-indictment-1820926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched<\/a> her re-election campaign website. Willis raised loads of cash off of her sham &ldquo;election interference&rdquo; prosecution that has fallen apart under the weight of her lust, greed, incompetence and naked partisanship. Willis says she has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/02\/24\/nx-s1-5302917\/fani-willis-president-trump-georgia-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no regrets.<\/a> Why should she? The Trump-hating, corruption-loving voters of Fulton County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/atlanta\/2024\/11\/06\/fani-willis-fulton-district-attorney-election-result\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rewarded her with another term<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is no way for our government to operate. This is no way for our system of justice to be operated, if we&rsquo;re going to preserve this republic,&rdquo; Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., a member of the subcommittee said on the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/what-congress-can-do-to-curb-lawfare--64733480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;The Federalist Radio Hour&rdquo; podcast<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Roy said every American should be able to count on &ldquo;a justice system that is divorced from the political whims of elected officeholders, political parties and personal vendettas.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In their political pursuit of President Trump, however, we saw state and local prosecutors abuse professional norms in favor of achieving indictments against their target,&rdquo; Roy said in his opening statements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government isn&rsquo;t simply taking testimony and shining light on prosecutorial abuses. It aims to pass laws in concert with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/11\/bondi-quickly-moves-to-restore-integrity-accountability-in-justice-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">efforts of the Trump administration<\/a> to kill the cancer of weaponization of the federal government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week, the focus was on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billtrack50.com\/billdetail\/1852565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No More Political Prosecutions Act.<\/a> Introduced by Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., the bill would allow presidents, former presidents, and vice presidents, among others, to move state civil and criminal cases to federal courts. The proposal also codifies official-act presidential immunity recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in its <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/01\/scotus-immunity-ruling-further-delays-trump-trial-in-jack-smiths-d-c-lawfare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">landmark ruling<\/a> last year. Proponents say it&rsquo;s not a get-out-of-jail free card, but legislation that helps restore protection for federal officers from state prosecutions, standing law for two centuries before its erosion in the 1970s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats on the committee, of course, hate the bill, as they hate the accusations dogging their party for leading the power-centric lawfare that has done so much to compromise faith in justice served.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The majority calls it lawfare when Donald Trump is held to the rule of law and given every right of due process,&rdquo; Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., jibed at Tuesday&rsquo;s hearing. Raskin, who seems to have a skewed understanding of due process, accused the president of trampling on the &ldquo;rights of prosecutors.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;The Rule of Law&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Mostly, Dems on the subcommittee turned the hearing into another showcase of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Ranking member Mary Gay Scanlon, a Pennsylvania Democrat who who looks and sounds like an aging <a href=\"https:\/\/bradybunch.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jan_Brady\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jan Brady<\/a> with a psychotic &ldquo;Marcia, Marcia, Marcia&rdquo; complex, used her opening statement to sling zingers at Trump, Elon Musk and the administration&rsquo;s efforts to trim the bloated federal bureaucracy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Instead of acting as a co-equal branch of government as designed by our founding document, this House majority is content to abdicate Congress&rsquo; authority to make and fund laws to a would-be dictator and his billionaire tech bro,&rdquo; Scanlon sneered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This bill is another attempt to refashion the rule of law to flatter a narcissist and felon-in-chief,&rdquo; the Democrat jeered as if auditioning to replace Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Scanlon called the bill an &ldquo;infringement on state sovereignty.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s always delightful when the party of socialized medicine and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">federally protected preborn baby murder blusters<\/a> about states&rsquo; rights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harris said Democrats have attempted to slow down reform bills at every turn, trying to bury them in amendments in a losing effort. He said they do so at the peril of a republic facing an alarming lack of confidence in the idea of &ldquo;justice for all.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Without law and order, without a nonpartisan Department of Justice, the American people can&rsquo;t have confidence in our whole judicial system,&rdquo; Harris said in the podcast interview. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to restore confidence and trust with the American people in all of our branches of government.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"... Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top ... Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidence in U.S. justice system hits record low at 35%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2410950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-2.58.28-AM-1024x528.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51730,45577,51731,51729],"class_list":["post-2410949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-civilliberties","tag-justicereform","tag-legalbattles","tag-weaponizedjustice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-2.58.28-AM-1024x528.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410953,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410949\/revisions\/2410953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}