Lawyers and volunteers were everything

In my last post I talked about hitting the ground running. Here's why I think that is possible.  The last election Trump was defeated by a very poorly organized GOP. Republicans were locked out of counts in critical battleground states. There was no army of lawyers, no army of volunteers in 2020. Republicans got played so badly that it was inevitable that if Let's Go Brandon didn't win, they could have easily manufactured a win under those tilted-playing-field conditions. This is why so many Republicans reasonably think the 2020 election was stolen by the Democrats.

Remember Hillary Clinton telling Let's Go Brandon not to concede on election night? That's very telling. Why didn't that happen this time? The GOP, while not fully there yet, was so much better prepared with lawyers and volunteers. The Democrats could not organize any sort of shadowy light night rally for Kamala Harris, they knew they had to concede. The popular vote better reflected the reality of regular people, because there was far less possibility of cheating.

Yet despite all the claims by the media that cheating has never happened, it's still going on - out in the open even:

I am saying, we are living in a developed and powerful country on earth where we have to mention the keyword “valid” next to absentee ballot. How do I now believe they are valid? Who says they are valid (see the video below)? I thought the idea of ballot stuffing and other things… https://t.co/VFGoKtDBig

— NC Man (@NCMan2020) November 16, 2024

Trump's team was so organized they couldn't steal the presidency. There were many in the media predicting (or perhaps propagandizing) a Harris victory blowout. Then they were expecting a long week of counting in the swing states. Now Trump is clearly a lot more popular after four years of Brandon/Harris failures as a contrast, but it's not all his popularity that helped him win. The GOP's laser focus on the cheating was a huge boost that led to an election night win for Trump. It's clear Democrats moved the focus to congress because they had to do so. That team of lawyers the GOP assembled should be actively pursuing these other cheats on behalf of the GOP right now.

The main point though, is to point out that president Trump is coming into this term far better prepared than he was in 2016.  That being the case, hitting the ground running is far more likely this time around. He was prepared for election night, and it won him the election.  He has a team assembling much faster than in 2016. Day One should be great.

Lawyer calls out his own interpretation of impeachment

Viva Frei calls out another YouTube lawyer today, and it's himself. Then he instructively walks through Alan Dershowitz's argument before the senate that impeachment does, in fact, require a criminal act.

Trump lawyer makes some great points on Comey

Via USA Today:

"Undocumented" Immigrant Fighting to be a lawyer

It had to be California where this would happen.  How does an undocumented person go through the entire  education system without this getting flagged somewhere?

SAN FRANCISCO — A majority of California Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant Wednesday to grant a law license to Sergio Garcia, who graduated law school and passed the state's bar exam but has been living illegally in the United States for 20 years.

A federal law passed by Congress in 1996 bars immigrants in the country illegally from receiving "professional licenses" from government agencies or with the use of public funds unless state lawmakers specifically vote otherwise.

"Congress wanted political accountability," Justice Ming Chin said in expressing doubt the court could grant Garcia his license without a specific law enacted by the state Legislature.

Justice Goodwin Liu said it was "commonsensical" that Congress meant to include lawyer licenses in the law.

This case could force to the front burner not only the illegal immigration issue but also issues like states' rights.

 

Kudos to Garcia for seeking to better himself, but part of that process should have been to naturalize himself. 

Obama is smarter than, well, everyone.

It's not you, it's me.  Me, me, me!

President Obama won't listen to his lawyers. He's too smart for that.  He knows more than them because he taught law.  In fact, he knows more than anyone as it turns out.  The president also won't listen to his generals either.

NYT Headline spin on Obama

Here's a quick example of the New York Times spins the story to make President Obama look good.  In fact, in this case they are only spinning the headline in President Obama's favor. But it becomes clear after you read the first paragraph.

Lawyers Lawyers Lawyers - In Power

Lawyers, lawyers everywhere and in power in government.  How many lawyers?

Republican attorneys in Congress and the Senate?

16 Senators (40% of the Republican Senators)
47 Representatives (26.5% of Republican Congressmen). 

63 Republican attorneys or 29% of Republican representatives.

Democrat attorneys in Congress and the Senate?

24 Senators (40% of Democrat Senators)
93 Representatives (36.3% of Democrat Congressman)

120 Democrat attorneys or 37.5% of Democrat representatives

Overall that's 183 out of 535 representatives (34.2%).

The overall percentage of the US population that are lawyers? In 2007 according to the American Bar Association there were 1.1 million lawyers.  That's about 0.4% of the population. 

Representative-wise the lawyers are over-represented in Congress and the Senate.  Throw the bums out?  There's a reason the Constitution was not 1100 pages.  I'm just saying.