A predictable thing happened recently when a woman in Texas made a violently threatening call to a federal judge: She was prosecuted for a crime because she admitted to it, and it’s illegal to violently threaten another person.
That timeworn and orderly American process — referred to in ancient times as “the rule of law” — is apparently no longer good enough for Tanya Chutkan, the Obama-appointed judge who was the target of that threat and who is overseeing one of the two billion political prosecutions of Donald Trump.
Chutkan on Monday ruled in favor of Biden administration prosecutors who requested a gag order limiting what Trump can publicly say about the trial (absurd on its own) and those involved.
The case relates to Trump’s time as president and the 2020 election, both of which are at the very core of his campaign for a second, non-consecutive term. Of course they are. They’re at the very core of Joe Biden’s campaign, too! Whenever Biden or one of his allies lisp their way through a corny talking point like, “Democrathy ith at th-take!” they’re talking about Trump and the 2020 election.
No matter how you cut it, Chutkan is voiding out the campaign of Biden’s leading opponent for the Republican nomination. And assuming the trial goes well into next year, and it will, she’s preemptively cutting off what Trump is allowed to say in the general election while Biden is turned loose on the same topic.
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