As President Donald Trump continues to shake things up from the White House, he is working to protect average citizens from prosecution that is “oriented more toward inflicting political pain.”
Take, for example, the case of Daniel Penny, who was prosecuted after restraining an erratic Jordan Neely. Neely is accused of acting out on a New York subway and frightening passengers. Marine veteran Penny used a chokehold to restain Neely, who passed away following the interaction. While most people believed he was a hero for potentially putting himself in harm’s way to protect those aboard the subway, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg opted for prosecution in the case. Penny was indicted but eventually acquitted by a jury, leading critics to decry the trial as an act of political theater used by Bragg to flex his power.
Upon his return to the presidency, Trump signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at injecting life into his agenda. Among those orders was a pair that would protect Americans from unnecessary prosecution, as well as investigate federal agencies acting under former President Joe Biden’s direction.
“These actions appear oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives,” read one of the orders, titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government.”
“The prior administration and allies throughout the country engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process,” it continues, calling to mind the actions of Bragg.
Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo believes the orders will help prevent frivolous prosecution of average citizens who have a lot to lose as a result of the public humiliation that comes with being raked over the coals, even if they are eventually acquitted.
“Much of the effort to end lawfare will focus, as it should, on the Democrats’ use of federal and state prosecution to cripple candidate Trump,” Yoo explained in a piece published in the New York Post. “But the Trump Justice Department must also counter the misuse of prosecutorial authority against people with far less resources and fame.”
He also said Trump’s DOJ should “investigate whether Bragg and his office considered race in making their decision to prosecute Penny for murder.”
“The scales of justice will be rebalanced,” Trump announced during his inaugural address. “The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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