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I attended UCLA School of Law from August 1990 to May 1993. I was chief articles editor of the UCLA Law Review and then moved on to clerk for a brilliant (I add: most brilliant) federal appeals court judge‚ the Hon. Danny J. Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. I then practiced complex civil litigation for more than a decade at three of America’s most prominent powerhouse law firms‚ moving over to teaching law school for nearly 20 years. Yes‚ I am a rabbi of 40-plus years who knows Judaic law and the Bible pretty respectably by now‚ but I also know American law every bit as well as the pundits you see on TV. And those pundits don’t make puns. What the Democrats and their media co-conspirators are doing to former and future President Donald Trump is beyond anything that exists in American law‚ and they are destroying our country. You see‚ here is how it works: READ MORE from Dov Fischer: A Queen‚ Two Bishops‚ Jews‚ and Muslim Madmen in Turbans Nixon screwed up but did not deserve to be thrown out of office. It was not he who cooked up the bungled Watergate break-in. He probably fumed when he learned about it. He was leading in the polls at the time by 2 million points‚ give or take Massachusetts‚ and he did not need to do anything because George McGovern was campaigning for him. No one wanted McGovern. No one. Then Nixon learned that his backers broke into the Watergate Hotel‚ yada-yada-yada. What should he have done&;#63; The leftist media know he should have called 9-1-1 and turned them in. But that is not realistic. What kind of jerk learns that his closest friends‚ on their own‚ tried to “do him a solid” but messed up‚ so he then snitches on them to the fuzz&;#63; No one does that. You cannot do that. You can call out others for failing to do that‚ but you never would do that yourself. If there had been a Fox News at the time‚ for all their flaws‚ Nixon’s side would have gotten a nightly airing‚ and he would have gotten censured but not impeached. But the Democrats smelled blood. That day was the day that the impeachment of Bill Clinton began. No one had ever heard of him‚ but that didn’t matter. Sooner or later‚ the Republicans were going to retaliatorily impeach a Democrat. Then the Dems impeached Trump‚ and then the GOP impeached Alejandro Mayorkas. It never mattered whether there were enough votes in the Senate to convict Clinton‚ Trump‚ or Mayorkas. Once it started with Nixon‚ it had to be avenged‚ and then more retaliation‚ and then more. Nixon never should have faced impeachment. Clinton dishonored himself and deserved to be sued in civil court serially by the women he abused‚ but you don’t impeach a president because he lies to a lawyer in a deposition over whether he “had sex” with a female while he falsely swears to his wife at home each night that he never touched her. It is what it is. Trump’s phone call to Volodymyr Zelensky was perfectly reasonable. Of all the politicized impeachments‚ the only one that is legit is the present one to throw out Mayorkas. And the Democrats dismissed it before it could begin. Let the word go forth from this time and place (my column at The American Spectator) that the Trump lawfare obscenities will unleash lawfare against the Bidens after January 2025 or whenever his time ends. If Joe is reelected and dies in office‚ they still will go after Hunter and all the other Bidens. Then the Democrats will go after the next Republican president like Ron DeSantis or whoever‚ and then the GOP will imprison the next Democrat after. Welcome to the Banana Republic. Make sure not to slip on the peels in Aisle 8 while the criminal attorneys file slips on appeal in Courtroom 8. Each Trump case is bogus. A case of property loan fraud where all the lenders say they have no gripes and gladly would lend to him again‚ but the leftist prejudiced Democrat judge hits him and his team with $557 million in judgments‚ beginning with $355 million plus another $100 million interest&;#63; Really&;#63; Again‚ read the first paragraph here. I know stuff. Yes‚ I am for Trump‚ but I have devoted too many years of my life to establishing a respected name in the law to compromise it as some Trump attorneys did‚ to their shame‚ after Jan. 6. Yet I always taught my 2‚000-plus law students that‚ exactly like the law of gravity‚ the law is the law. I believe‚ correctly or wrongly‚ that Trump privately went too far with Stormy Daniels‚ though not “Star Trek” distance (“where no man has gone before”). As a rabbi‚ I know that is a terrible sin. But our lives do not end with a terrible sin. I know that also. Any competent rav (Orthodox rabbi) will focus not on the sin but on the road to redemption. Otherwise‚ a sinner may decide to continue his sinning the rest of his life because his soul already is lost. But‚ no‚ it is not lost. A person can redeem himself. In some cases‚ not all‚ that even can make him holier. All because you labored for 40 years on the Sabbath does not mean that you cannot turn it around with G-d by remembering and observing His Shabbat Day for the rest of your life. Has Trump redeemed himself&;#63; I don’t know. But I do know he never did and never would get involved with any woman other than his wife while in office. I trust him there. John F. Kennedy was not that pristine while in office‚ though the media covered for him. LBJ walked around on airplanes with his private male organ exposed‚ for the media to see his‚ uh‚ johnson. Nixon‚ Ford‚ Carter‚ Reagan‚ the Bushes‚ and Obama were clean in this way. Clinton soiled the White House no less than he did Monica’s dress. Trump should not be on trial for hush money. The “hush money” matter should not be actionable‚ and if it were‚ the limitations statute has passed. So Alvin Bragg ties it to a federal elections statute‚ claiming Trump made election payments while criminally hiding them from the public. We all know why the payments were secret. Just go to a few filthy R-rated movies that get great New York Times reviews‚ and watch hush money payments turned into blackmail. Yawn. Trump paid secretly to hide the story from his wife‚ just as Clinton tried to lie his way through a deposition taken under oath to hide from Hillary his involuntary harem. Democrats do not convict for that. Rather‚ they follow the news and reassess whether their own hush money payments are being transmitted securely. They make sure to keep those payments under $10‚000 to avoid the Eliot Spitzer thing. They avoid becoming spectacles like Wilbur Mills. Trump’s payments were obscene but not criminal. The statute expired. The federal elections law is irrelevant. But the Democrats conspired to have a Soros-funded D.A. bring this nonsense in a deep blue Manhattan courtroom where a deep blue jury resides. It is for this reason that Trump needs to wait for the appellate process. I am not sure he will get justice in New York’s mid-level appellate courts or in the top rung. He ultimately may need to bring a habeas corpus to the U.S. Supreme Court. I am reminded of the landmark First Amendment case of New York Times v. Sullivan‚ 376 U.S. 254 (1964). Sullivan was an Alabaman‚ and he filed for defamation in Alabama. The Times did not have a chance in the world. The trial resulted in them being found guilty. Also the first appeal. Also the state Supreme Court. Finally‚ they got to the U.S. Supreme Court‚ and they won. They did not deserve to win outright‚ but they also did not deserve more than a minor penalty‚ but the point is that the Supreme Court exists to ensure justice when there has been manifest local prejudice all the way up. It probably will be only then and there that Trump will emerge with the Right to Bragg. To receive Rav Fischer’s Weekly Extensive Torah Commentaries or to attend any or all of Rav Fischer’s weekly 60-minute live Zoom classes on the Weekly Torah Portion‚ the Biblical Prophets‚ the Mishnah‚ Rambam Mishneh Torah‚ or Advanced Judaic Texts‚ send an email to: shulstuff@yioc.org His 10-part exciting and fact-based series of one-hour classes on the Jewish Underground liberation movement (Irgun‚ Lechi‚ and Haganah) and the Rise of Modern Israel can be found here. 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Last week‚ Uri Berliner reported inconvenient facts. Now he no longer works at NPR. Such is the fate of truth-tellers employed by propaganda outfits. After a quarter-century as a reporter and editor with the government-funded radio operation‚ Berliner resigned on Wednesday. “I am resigning from NPR‚ a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years‚” he emailed NPR honcho Katherine Maher. “I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.” Maher suspended Berliner without pay last Thursday for not clearing his article and allegedly sharing proprietary information regarding listener demographics (i.e.‚ very white‚ very‚ very left-wing). The political leanings of NPR’s audience‚ and the radio network’s leftward shift over time‚ do not surprise any listener who does not subscribe to the left-of-the-dial’s prevailing ideological ethos. Berliner stressed how the slant led NPR to fixate on ideologically seductive narratives that lacked the one common denominator of all good news stories: truth. He pointed to NPR’s obsession with the theory that Donald Trump conspired with the Kremlin to win the presidency — and its reliance on as partisan a character as Adam Schiff for more than two dozen interviews to propel that notion — as one example of a dubious story pursued because it flattered the political outlook of virtually everyone employed in a journalistic capacity by NPR. Undoubtedly‚ this particular pitfall of bias arises. The prosaic manifestation of NPR’s bias occurs in a story selection utterly alien to a woman delivering the mail‚ a man atop a tractor‚ and the vast majority of the African American and Hispanic demographic that NPR so desperately covets. In the past month or so‚ Fresh Air aired such progressive lectures disguised as news as “How Cars Became a Gendered Technology‚” “Climate-Driven Migration in the U.S.‚” and “Coming Out Trans at Age 67.” Their harangues‚ like all harangues‚ drive all but the true believers away. Science Friday‚ which seems a less honest name than “Climate Change Update‚” broadcast such recent segments as “Abortion-Restrictive States Leave Ob-Gyns with Tough Choices‚” “How Election Science Can Support Democracy‚” and “A New Book Puts ‘Math in Drag.’” On a science show‚ they find a way to talk about transgenderism and Jan. 6‚ 2021. Clear-eared listeners often come away wondering where the network’s science coverage begins and its political coverage ends. Hidden Brain‚ which often delves into topics of a scientific nature‚ undermines NPR’s notion of the necessity to saturate a program with politics to make it interesting. Indeed‚ that Saturday program always proves more captivating than the Friday one precisely because it exudes a fascination with scientific matters rather than uses them as a Trojan Horse to smuggle left-wing newsporn onto the airwaves. Even Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me bizarrely pushes a political agenda‚ unlike Jeopardy&;#33;‚ Press Your Luck‚ or any other game show you have ever come across. A sizable number of people would tune in to hear Bill Kurtis read the phone book‚ so the limericks act as a bonus. But the liberal B-listers‚ host Peter Sagal’s Tourette’s-like quips announcing his solidarity with progressive ideology‚ and trivia often betraying a political bent uniformly in one direction unsettles anyone who ever encountered mass media behind the Iron Curtain. More Charles Nelson Reilly‚ less Mo Rocca‚ please; more Bret Somers‚ less Paula Poundstone‚ please. A singular affectation rather than diverse accents accent NPR’s insularity. One hears testosterone-depleted voices announce “really leaning into” this streaming show or finding that comedian quite “problematic.” Before you ever heard “cisgender‚” “white privilege‚” or “diversity‚ equity‚ inclusion‚ belonging” (yes‚ the “belonging” is increasingly obligatory)‚ someone listening to NPR heard them first. They communicate not to the mass of potential listeners. They communicate instead: we belong to a club. That club wants your tax dollars and pledge-drive commitment. The club does not want your opinions — as guests‚ reporters‚ editors‚ or callers. Uri Berliner’s revelation that NPR’s D.C. newsroom contained 87 registered Democrats but not a single Republican screams as much. That bit of truth-telling exposing NPR’s rigid‚ Izvestia-like conformity stands as his offense for the so-nicknamed Chairman Maher. To those outside NPR’s political cult‚ Berliner errs in his delusion that he labored for “a great American institution” rather than Agitprop Radio‚ whose very existence acts as a non sequitur in a free country. READ MORE: It’s Bigger Than NPR’s Katherine Maher The post Defund NPR Yesterday appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Here’s a collection of items that wind their way from Hollywood to the real purveyors of make-believe: 1. Alan Ritchson can go to hell‚ and he can take Reacher with him. I’ve been a real fan of Amazon Prime’s streaming show Reacher for both of its two seasons. Alan Ritchson‚ the hulking behemoth who plays lead character Jack Reacher‚ is a pretty good fit — he says little‚ deadpans his role‚ and is very believable in perpetrating acts of righteous brutality. Richard Burton he isn’t‚ but the role doesn’t call for Richard Burton. The problem is that Ritchson thinks the notoriety Reacher has given him — and it’s led to a role in the new Guy Ritchie World War II action romp The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare — somehow makes him relevant as a political commentator. So he decided that he would throw a verbal hand grenade at cops by saying this: Cops get away with murder all the time‚ and the fact that we can’t really hold them accountable for their improprieties is disturbing to me. We should completely reform the way that we do it. I mean‚ you shouldn’t have to spend more time getting an education as a hairstylist than as a cop who’s armed with a deadly weapon. We should make it very hard for people to make mistakes or abuse power in our institutions. That from an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. Can’t hold cops accountable&;#63; Really&;#63; Tell that to Derek Chauvin‚ the Minneapolis police officer who is in prison and who was nearly stabbed to death a few months ago after being railroaded by a jury full of people intimidated by a mob of folks who believe all the same crap Ritchson believes‚ because Chauvin had the misfortune of trying to restrain George Floyd as the latter expired from a fentanyl overdose. Is that the murder Ritchson thinks cops get away with&;#63; Or is he talking about the Chicago cops who killed Dexter Reed after he shot one of them&;#63; Was that murder‚ or was it self-defense&;#63; Nobody cares what this face-man who gets paid to pretend he’s somebody else in front of a camera thinks. And it’s so tiring to constantly have to listen to “celebrities‚” most of whom are unqualified nincompoops when it comes to their personal lives‚ pontificate about politics and current events. The makers of‚ and investors in‚ Ungentlemanly Warfare ought to sue Ritchson in the event the movie lays an egg at the box office‚ which is a decent possibility. It’s time for Hollywood’s obnoxious leftists‚ from producers to actors on down‚ to start facing consequences for alienating the audiences. So far those consequences have come courtesy of bad box office figures‚ but that clearly isn’t enough for any of them to learn anything. Maybe it’s time for trial lawyers to get involved. Either way‚ count me out of season three of Reacher. Unless Ritchson is canned and replaced with somebody I don’t find repellently moronic‚ I’ve got better things to do with my time. 2. Joy Reid Is Right About Trump’s New York Trial Boy‚ that’s a weird little subhead‚ isn’t it&;#63; But this is a rare case in which I can say Joy Reid isn’t completely full of crap. What‚ you ask‚ could Joy Reid possibly be right about&;#63; Well‚ there’s this: Joy Reid: “Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural‚ multiracial democracy that he’s trying to dismantle … Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.” pic.twitter.com/FlHQoat11m — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 16‚ 2024 That is spot on. Absolutely 100 percent correct. It is completely true that the people perpetrating the worst abuses of the legal system in the history of the country‚ persecuting a former president of the United States in courts controlled 100 percent by a corrupt‚ lawless‚ unethical‚ and morally bankrupt political cabal are “her DEIs.” Alvin Bragg‚ Letitia James‚ and Fani Willis are all black. They’re all cogs in the Hard Left machine. They’ve all got immense ethical deficiencies in the overall performance of their offices. And they’re all doing the bidding of the Biden White House — meaning that‚ at least officially‚ they’re a collection of step-n-fetch-its for a guy whose best pals in the Senate were Robert Byrd and James Eastland. That applies to the judge in Bragg’s case against Trump‚ a leftist Latino political activist named Juan Merchan‚ who is so mean-spirited and hostile toward Trump that he’s attempting to deny him the right to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation or even to attend the oral arguments at the Supreme Court over Trump’s contention that presidential immunity attaches to another kangaroo-court prosecution‚ that in the Jan. 6 trial in Washington. Merchan is actively seeking to keep Trump off the campaign trail for two months in the middle of this presidential election‚ an abuse nobody would have conceived of before 2024. So yeah‚ Reid is right. This is what DEI gets you. It gets you a bunch of meritless‚ unethical thugs who are slaves to a bankrupt ideology and a crooked‚ mostly white elite who want to destroy America as founded not because of the DEI creed that this is somehow a country founded on racism but because they can get more power for themselves if they can clear away the checks and balances our Founders built into our Constitution. Call this metaphor racist if you want‚ but these are the flying monkeys sent out by the Wizard of Oz — the old white man behind the curtain (whether that old white man is Joe Biden or George Soros doesn’t really matter‚ does it&;#63;) — to terrorize the hinterland. And that’s what they’re doing‚ because if they can do this to Donald Trump in New York and Atlanta and D.C.‚ don’t think for one second they can’t do it to you. A sane country would inflict so much punishment on New York for this disgusting travesty that the state’s governor‚ Kathy Hochul‚ would pardon Trump in both James’ and Bragg’s cases just to get the ordeal over with. But we’re not a sane country. We’re more of a banana republic. And we have Joy Reid’s DEI’s — and their evil white masters — to thank for it. 3. Oh‚ by the Way … at NPR… This is who’s running that place now: EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the &;quot;the number one challenge&;quot; in her fight against disinformation is &;quot;the First Amendment in the United States‚&;quot; which makes it &;quot;a little bit tricky&;quot; to censor &;quot;bad information&;quot; and &;quot;the influence peddlers&;quot; who spread it. NPR's censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO — Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) April 17‚ 2024 I don’t know why I’m forced to support this assault on the constitutional republic I have a right to as an American. Katherine Maher on my payroll is a personal affront to me. At the end of the day‚ a regime that would inflict her on me and those like me is an illegitimate regime. It fixes elections‚ it openly denies basic civil rights‚ and it recoils from objective truth like a vampire from the sun. We keep discussing consequences in this space‚ and this is another example. Somebody can step in and fire this woman‚ or NPR can lose its federal funding‚ or something worse than that will ultimately happen. But you can’t force the American people to pay to be insulted by people like this forever. This bough will break. I can’t tell you how‚ but it will. 4. Speaking of Consequences‚ When Do They Come for the Climate Nuts&;#63; Amid all of the bovine scatology you continue to hear about how the planet is burning up thanks to your SUV and that ribeye steak you ate last night comes this: More evidence emerges that Antarctica has undergone rapid glacier and sea ice expansion in recent centuries‚ in line with the long-term and recent Antarctic cooling trend. West Antarctica’s mean annual surface temperatures cooled by more than -1.8°C (-0.93°C per decade) from 1999-2018 (Zhang et al.‚ 2023). Not just West Antarctica‚ but most of the continent also has cooled by more than 1°C in the 21st century. The glaciers covering Antarctica are bigger than ever. So there’s your stupid narrative about how the planet is warming up and the sea levels will rise to engulf … Barack Obama’s house on Martha’s Vineyard‚ for example. The link that the above excerpt came from is worth reading in full. Nothing is happening at present that is different from natural warming and cooling patterns of the Earth throughout history. What’s different is that there is an army of Marxist grifters who see climate alarmism as a profitable grift that can pay off in money and power. It’s just a new way to pillage the wealth of those people who actually create things for a living. But the question is this: given that these liars haven’t just bullshitted their way into ill-gotten swag by way of grants and funding but have done real damage to our economy and culture — there are studies out there showing that belief in climate doom is a factor in high rates of depression and suicidal ideation‚ particularly among the young — at what point should there be consequences laid onto these people&;#63; It isn’t enough for the liars to be exposed and the lies discredited‚ which isn’t quite where we are yet but it looks like that day is coming. No‚ what we need is a cost imposed for the lies. Where is the massive class-action lawsuit against the purveyors of climate alarmism for the economic and social damage they’ve done&;#63; Why aren’t museums across the world suing the funders of these radical groups who send lunatic idiots out to deface public art in the name of the Earth&;#63; It’s interesting that Katherine Maher decries the purveyors of “disinformation‚” which she defines as things the universally leftist staff at NPR disagrees with‚ and yet the most obvious disinformation artists are the people telling you that your gas stove and water heater will drown your grandchildren. Will Katherine Maher agree that they belong on the menu&;#63; Of course not. Can we at least agree to stop paying for this stupid and destructive demoralization campaign&;#63; 5. Oh‚ Apparently Not&;#33; I’d normally end with something light‚ like for example that book sales of King of the Jungle are ever-so-slowly beginning to mount (and‚ if you’ve read the serialized version‚ you might consider doing me a favor and leaving an Amazon review&;#33;)‚ or to pass along Daniel Greenfield’s excellent review of the novel: A rollicking ride that looks ripped from the headlines with plenty of corrupt politicians‚ danger and firepower. And‚ unlike real life‚ there’s a happy ending. But I won’t do that. Instead‚ I’ll pass along something weightier and far more disgusting‚ which is that no‚ we aren’t getting our government out of the idiotic climate change nonsense business in the immediate future. Instead‚ Dirty Joe Deadhorse Biden is going to use it to do … something in an effort to rig the election this fall. At least‚ that’s the suggestion one draws from this: White House officials are weighing whether to declare a national climate emergency several months out from the 2024 election‚ people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. President Joe Biden’s top advisers have returned to conversations about declaring such a national climate emergency‚ though those in discussion appear to be divided on the move‚ the sources told Bloomberg. While the move‚ the sources say‚ would stunt offshore drilling and curb greenhouse gas emissions‚ others think the move would help energize youth voters‚ particularly those with a focus on climate‚ Bloomberg reported. “President Biden has treated the climate crisis as an emergency since day one and will continue to build a clean energy future that lowers utility bills‚ creates good-paying union jobs‚ makes our economy the envy of the world and prioritizes communities that for too long have been left behind‚” White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez told the outlet while not commenting directly on the reported discussions. Yes‚ you want to roll your eyes at this and say‚ “Nah‚ no way.” You can’t do that. Let’s not forget that the people who believe the things Joe Biden’s handlers do saw the COVID lockdowns and were overjoyed‚ and immediately began wishcasting about the potential for climate lockdowns. This is on their radar‚ and their strategy is a pure base-mobilization campaign. Pander to the Hard Left at every turn and then get as many of them out to vote using every trick possible‚ and that way you don’t have to win any arguments at all in front of the public. Which you can’t do anyway when your candidate is a talentless‚ credibility deficient crook who can’t even walk like a normal man. So keep your eye on this. In a sane country declaring a “climate emergency” and inflicting gross inconvenience on your countrymen as you ask them to reelect you would signal a stupidity punishable by immediate political oblivion. But we are not quite that sane country at present. We’ve been driven mad by these people‚ and the consequences for that have not yet come. READ MORE: The Trans Reckoning Is Not Yet Here — But It’s Coming Soon Dead Thugs and Tired Narratives The post Five Quick Things: The Impending Death (By Suicide) of &;lt;i&;gt;Reacher&;lt;/i&;gt; appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.