PREVIEW: #LAWFARE: Conversation with Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution re the use of lawfare against political opponents in democracies -- the example of Bolsonaro of Brazil and Trump of the US -- and the observation that the judiciary is now
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Bachelor, speaking with Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution about |
| 0:24.2 | lawfare about selective prosecution about selective enforcement for example |
| 0:29.4 | jailing members of the Trump administration for defying Congress and not testifying and not |
| 0:36.3 | the same in the direction of during the Obama administration. |
| 0:41.4 | The puzzle is what does this mean about the Constitution, about |
| 0:45.0 | protecting Americans for equal treatment before the laws? We have of course the |
| 0:50.1 | prominent case of President, former President Trump being prosecuted for criminal |
| 0:55.8 | offenses as well as leading into civil trials which are overwhelming in |
| 1:01.5 | their punishment. |
| 1:05.0 | And Victor answers very carefully about excessive punishment and the Eighth Amendment. |
| 1:10.9 | He also speaks of why it's important for people to vote, because right now |
| 1:15.1 | what we have is, according to Victor, a very strong judiciary that every vote for a senator |
| 1:21.5 | or a president can determine the future judiciary. |
| 1:25.0 | Here's Victor Davis-Anson, the Hoover Institution reflecting on the 8th Amendment and the |
| 1:29.7 | judges. |
| 1:30.7 | In the Constitution there is. |
| 1:31.7 | I mean, if anybody who has a fair reading of the 8th |
| 1:34.5 | amendment about excessive punishment can see that this is a violation ultimately |
| 1:39.6 | we are only hope as Americans that this will cease is will go to the Supreme Court and |
| 1:45.2 | they'll strike these things down. I think it's a reminder to people that when you |
| 1:50.1 | vote you're voting for your vote for a president or you vote for senators, you're voting really for the |
| 1:56.9 | Supreme Court and the federal judiciary and the idea that you have quibbles with a particular |
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