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Bucks County: Diane Marseglia, Felon or Moron?

Old Bathos
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The Bucks County Commissioner who said she was knowingly violating the law as expressly laid out by the state's highest court, justified her actions on the implicit grounds that it was done in opposition to the presumptively illegal election of that notorious felon Donald Trump.

I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want...

At least I think she was talking about Trump and not the Obama administration officials who bent and broke laws to undo the 2016 election with the silly Steele Dossier. Nor was it likely she was talking about Biden's lawless actions on immigration and student loans. Or the malfeasance of federal, state, and local prosecutors ignoring crimes committed by politically favored individuals and groups. Or maybe she thinks that her fellow Democrats no longer believe the law applies to anyone, especially themselves.

The irony here is that according to the criteria of the NYC court that prosecuted persecuted Donald Trump, Ms. Marseglia is far more guilty. Both she and Mr. Trump took actions apparently intended to influence the outcome of a federal election, but Trump's payment to Stormy Daniels was legal. Marseglia's publicly, knowingly defying a court order to count defective ballots was not. Lock her up!

She no doubt is one of those who routinely refer to Trump as a "felon" (which, as NR's Andy McCarthy has noted, he is not until actually sentenced) without the slightest clue that by the same standard, her behavior is worse that his but with no risk of a political kangaroo court trial. So I gotta go with "moron" as the call on this one.

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  • Full Size Tabby@FullSizeTabby
    Old Bathos (View Post):

    [Bucks County Commissioner]: I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want…

    At least I think she was talking about Trump and not the Obama administration officials who bent and broke laws to undo the 2016 election with the silly Steele Dossier.

    Interesting possibility. "Pen and Phone Obama" made it clear that laws didn't matter to him. But then more recently, Biden has explicitly ignored rulings of the United States Supreme Court (concerning transferring college loan debt from the people who took out the loans to taxpayers who did not.

    But, since the County Commissioner who made the statement is a Democrat, it seems more likely that she is claiming the dishonest idea that Donald Trump set precedent by ignoring laws rather than the Democrats who frequently ignore law.

    Though it would be fun for someone to ask the Commissioner whether she was referring to Obama's and Biden's ignoring of court precedence and law.

  • Percival@Percival

    She not only committed a crime, she announced that she knew she was committing a crime.

    It's a brave act of civil disobedience. She needs to be locked up to complete the story. She can write Letters from the Bucks County Jail. It'll be an immediate classic.

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