How rogue judges have gone to war with Trump, the Constitution and America
“Show me the man, I’ll find you the crime!” So said Lavrenty Beria, the notorious chief of the secret police under the Soviet Union’s long-time and epically ruthless leader, Josef Stalin.
What that meant, of course, was that any person regarded as a genuine threat to the communist dictatorship would be tried in a kangaroo court on serious but totally made-up crimes. As the Encyclopedia Britannica puts it: “In high-profile, carefully scripted purge trials, perceived political opponents of the government were convicted of heinous offenses that they had not committed.”
In today’s America, the parallels are both eerie and inescapable.