President Trump declared in his second inauguration speech that “the weapon of the Ministry of Justice is over,” and promised its scale.
A few hours later, he issued a presidential decree to stop the promise.
President Trump wrote that the Biden administration has instructed the government to investigate the involvement of all federal agencies to “work on the weapon of an unprecedented pronounced power to turn the democratic process overturned.”
Many of the initiatives to end the legal issue will, as a matter of course, will focus on the Democratic Party to neutralize Trump candidates using the federal and state prosecutors.
However, the Ministry of Trump must also oppose the abuse of prosecutor authority to people with much less resources and reputation.
The most obvious example is in New York City, when the Manhattan regional prosecutor Albin Brag is busy to exaggerate the books as an election intervention in Trump, squeezed and died of a subway violent passenger Jordan. He charged Daniel Penny, a veteran for the Marine Corps. Neylly.
Blug depicts Penny as a legal vigilante, but New York's jury was acquitted of Penny for protecting his brothers as a hero.
This week's presidential decree shows that the White House understands the threat.
President Trump's first -day presidential decree on “End of Federal Weaponization”, the Biden administration unconstitutionally exercised the law execution authority and “raises parents and opposition at the Board of Education's meeting. He accused the American for exercising his authority. [Biden’s] Action “.
To correct these wrongdoing, President Trump can freely exercise a wide range of authority to dismiss federal staff and prosecutors while knowing that the terrible authority has been used for political purposes. He can order reform of the Federal Bureau system to prevent future abuse.
However, some of the most serious constitutional infringements in the past four years have occurred in states and local levels. President Trump is unable to dismiss Brag, who does not respond to the Federal Opinion, nor cannot order the Prosecutor's Office in Manhattan.
To stop the abuse of the criminal judicial system by the progress, President Trump depends on the same legal theory that the Ministry of Justice used by the Ministry of Biden and deprived President Trump to deprive the American constitutional rights. You may need to investigate.
With the Penny's case in mind, the Judicial Public Prosecutor's Office has “damaged, oppresses, intimidates, or threatens the person who exercises constitutional rights and privileges. The forbidden federal law, 18, may find out if it violates Article 241 of the National Code.
Since freedom from racism is a central right in the Constitution, the Ministry of Trump investigates whether Brag and his office have considered races when he decides to prosecute Penny for murder. You need to.
Immediately after taking office, Mr. Brag has suspended his accusation of his arrests and low -level drug crimes and announced that he would neglect other charges such as robbery and robbery, and investigated races. The investigation should be expanded to do. “Fairness” based on race.
Judge Trump has expanded such a federal civil rights investigation beyond races, and has declared a decision on other New York officials, such as Mr. Brag and Leticia James, based on the party's political purpose. There is a possibility of investigating whether or not it was done.
Another core constitutional right is free to say and work without government interference. Both Brag and James have been candidates for elections, but after election, the constitution is forbidden to exercise power from a political point of view and give punishment and give rewards.
New York City did not choose to sue the Black Live's protest participants in a serious crime, as in many progressive cities, but has filed a lawsuit against the Republican Party. The most obvious is the lawsuit against Trump.
Other Democratic prosecutors, such as Atlanta's Fani Willis, seem to be targeting the Republican Party by releasing advanced legal violators. Meanwhile, the state and local prosecutor's initiatives trying to target organizations such as “moms for freedom” protesting destructive rockdowns due to the new colon virus infection are also the rights of speech and freedom of associations. It may be infringing.
The progress cannot complain that President Trump is abusing the Federal Civil Rights Law by starting such an investigation. If the prosecutor in the Southern State had accused blacks and civil rights movement supporters in severe racism, it would definitely be that the Ministry of Justice could investigate based on Article 241. That's it.
Former Secretary of Justice, Merrick Garland, will also have to agree. He has permitted Jack Smith Special Prosecutor to have an unprecedented claim that President Trump and his aides had objection to the 2020 election results and violated the voting law.
This is a legal theory that supports, and the court would have ultimately rejected, but the survey is based on it. Actual Racial discrimination and political enemies will be directly applicable to the purpose of the Federal Civil Rights Law.
If President Trump is used not only to protect the presidential decree from legal acts, but also to pursue abuse of criminal justice in states and local criminal judiciary, it will blow the law of the law. It will be possible to restore the trust of the people in the criminal judicial system. Like Daniel Penny's case in New York City most dramatically.
John You is a famous visiting professor at the University of Texas University Austin School Civil leadership graduate school and a senior researcher at the Civitas Research Institute.
