Imagine that doing your duty could not only mean losing your career, but also becoming a pariah, getting death threats, having your children harassed, and needing armed protection. This increasingly is the reality for many Americans. In fact, intimidation in the legal system, says an ex-Wisconsin judge, is hampering Republicansâ ability to get election-oriented justice.
In particular, states James Troupis (shown), pressure from the Left is stopping lawyers and judges from accepting and hearing vote-fraud cases.
No, Troupis didnât put it as starkly as I did in my first sentence, as he alludes mainly to career and reputational destruction. But we do ââhave to acknowledge that the court system has been deeply intimidated by the left, just as the lawyers have been intimidated,â Troupis told the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday,â reported National Fileâs Frank Salvato on Monday. âAnd thatâs a sad, sad state of affairs.â
âTroupis was just one of the witnesses who appeared before the committee to testify on irregularities and fraud they witnessed in several locations during the November 3, 2020, General Election,â Salvato continues. Below is a video of some of his testimony.
"Three million people properly voted in the state of Wisconsin. More than 200,000 identified during this recount did not. But those votes got counted. Our statute says they should not have been. That in our view is a taint on our election in Wisconsin." — Attorney James Troupis pic.twitter.com/6Me9aTfo1B
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) December 16, 2020
Despite the rampant vote fraud tarnishing the November 3 election, Troupis said that premier law firms have declined to defend the president because they fear leftist retaliation. So while the attorney said heâs âhonoredâ to represent Trump, he also said that heâs not ânaĂŻve.â
âOne of the reasons I was called [by Trump] is because virtually every major law firm in this country and in this city refused to represent the President,â Troupis explained. âNot because of the lack of merit of his claims â weâve certainly demonstrated that thereâs merit â but because of the cancel culture, because of the environment that has been created by the Left that has intimidated lawyers, so that they canât be here.â
âTheyâre not here from the giant law firms, precisely because they were ordered by their management committees and others that, âYou cannot take those cases,ââ he continued. âAnd the reason you cannot take those cases is because our clients, or the Democrat Party, or the incoming administration, will remember that and they will hold it against you.â (video below)
This phenomenon cuts far and wide, too. Thus is no one even âchallenging the blatant intimidation of attorneys who represented Trump,â laments lawyer, ex-judge, and journalist Patricia G. Barnes at her blog. âAmong other things, a group called The Lincoln Project called on clients to stop working with big firms that represented Trump and shared the phone number[s] and email addresses of Trump/GOP attorneys. Moreover, there currently are calls to boycott Trump attorneys and to challenge their law licenses.â
And pointing out that lawyers whoâve represented Trump have been âunmercifully harassed,â Salvato tells us that âTrump campaign senior legal adviser, Jenna Ellis, said sheâs received âhundredsâ of threats since taking up the election cases.â
Moreover, the âAmerican Bar Association (ABA) has done nothing to stand up for civility rules that are at the heart of attorney code of ethics,â adds Barnes. âThe ABA did not respond Wednesday when asked for comment.â
Tragically, most conservatives and apolitical Americans donât grasp the Leftâs true nature. But as renowned history professor Victor Davis Hanson put it in September, civilization âis on the brink.â If leftists âcome to full power,â he warned, theyâre âgonnaâ want to hunt out and eradicate their opponents. Thatâs what cultural revolutions always do.â
This is already happening in a Cold Culture War fashion. Leftists have been moving for the last decades from sector to sector â academia, media, entertainment, and more recently big business â purging âdissidents.â This is why aspiring conservative professors perhaps canât get tenure, conservative actors may be blackballed, overt conservatives may not be hired in media, and conservative passions may even cost one a job (e.g., Brendan Eich, Mozilla).
Rank-and-file conservatives sometimes sense this, too, which explains the âhidden Trump voteâ: people who dared not voice their support for the president for fear of persecution.
This phenomenon is why while leftists will crow about GOP election challenges âconsistently being rejected by courtsâ â claiming that the judicial actions reveal the casesâ vacuity â whatâs often perhaps the real explanation would trouble even many liberals were they wise enough to recognize it.
Fear.
As Troupis lamented, many judges are simply afraid to do the right thing. How many GOP cases have been rejected merely because courts feared the pariah status I spoke of in my opening sentence? Oh, the judges may not always be consciously acting on fear. But it does provide another great incentive to rationalize away Truth (a fault ever plaguing man).
Was this, for example, at least part of the reason the Supreme Court declined to hear the Trump-supported Texas case?
Moreover, since this fear is felt far and wide, does it explain Attorney General Bill Barrâs failure to bring charges against Deep State criminals (e.g., his recent decision to not appoint a Hunter Biden special counsel)?
For Iâve long believed that Barr and other establishment types know what Victor Davis Hanson does: Thereâs no need to fear conservatives. They donât control the culture â and they play by the rules and play nice.
The Left plays for keeps.
You try to prosecute leftists, and youâll rue the day as soon as they gain enough power. How many Barr types are principled enough to risk dying in jail for the cause?
As writer Christopher Roach put it in his September piece âThe Third Worlding of America,â as âin Venezuela or Iraq, politics and life [in the U.S.] are becoming âwinner takes all.ââ
Itâs a dark road leading to a place in which it doesnât matter if youâre right, only if youâre in power.