August 29, 2023
The Left is 'willfully blind' to President Trump’s rights
By Matthew G. Andersson
A senior law professor at New York University Law, Professor Burt Neuborne, who is also the founding director of NYU’s Brennan Center, and perhaps ironically a former national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, penned a Guest Essay (“There’s a Good Chance Trump Will Be Found ‘Willfully Blind’), which is a fascinating example of falsification and post hoc fallacy: he aggressively advances with astonishing mistruths that President Trump is already guilty based solely on accusations; makes from that particular false assumption, a false conclusion that the former president has limited legal remedies, and finally tries to sell the general reader on a legal theory that serves the Plaintiff (the “government”) in its case against the Defendant: that President Trump will be found “willfully blind” by using false statements (questioning an election) to create an unlawful benefit (overturning it).
Neuborne then proceeds to directly misrepresent both fact and law by arguing that because the 2020 election is obviously settled and without controversy, it therefore converts a normal and appropriate appeal into a crime which creates a “categorical exception” to protected speech.
He includes in his use of precedent, the 1949 case of Giboney v. Empire Storage and Ice Co. from which he quotes: “it rarely has been suggested that the constitutional freedom for speech and press extends its immunity to speech or writing used as an integral part of conduct in violation of a valid criminal statute.” This is especially interesting because in Trump v. Biden, the violation of statute by the DNC is precisely what the Wisconsin Chief Justice pointed out as a core point of law in her Dissent. The court majority refused to consult relevant statute law that controls election procedure.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_left_is_willfully_blind_to_president_trumps_rights.html
