It's better to remain silent....

When Roe v Wade was in effect, Mississippi law banned most abortions after the fifteenth week. The Jackson Women's Health Organization said, "No, dammit. We want to do abortions through sixteen weeks." They took the case to court.

Rather than deciding to remove restrictions such as those in Mississippi, the Supreme Court said, "You know, it is none of the Federal Government's business anyway. It is a state matter and state laws can be whatever elected representatives decide." No, the Supreme Court did not make abortion illegal. The Supreme Court said a state can make abortion illegal if it so decides. A state is also free to remove restrictions if it so chooses.

Roe v Wade could still be in effect if liberals were just willing to back off just a little bit. Instead, they went for broke on the issue and lost.

The left is about to do it again.

Many leftists gloat saying that Donald Trump "lost all of his cases contending that the 2020 election was stolen." In reality, those cases were thrown out for technical reasons having nothing to do with the evidence. No court ever heard Mr. Trump's evidence.

The latest indictment de semaine against Donald Trump is that he committed fraud by saying the the election was stolen. The prosecutor contends that even the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (‘CISA’), whose existence Trump signed into law, said there was no fraud or malfeasance during the 2020 election. That is the same agency that later accused two Iranians of hacking into a some state computer election systems and stealing voter information. Either election systems were hacked or they weren't.

There also seems to be a view among leftist government officials that while the First Amendment protects drag shows for young elementary school students, it does not protect speech critical or questioning of the government. The Biden Administration even tried to create an agency to fight what it considered foreign disinformation, with "foreign" and "disinformation" up for the government to define. Apparently, Donald Trump does not have First Amendment rights.

As with the abortion case, the left may be digging itself into a hole. Heretofore they have been able to say that all of Trumps cases were thrown out and that there is no evidence of election fraud. By bringing Trump to trial in this latest case, he will have the opportunity to present his evidence. Not only will he have a chance to prove that there was election fraud, the government may very well have to prove that there wasn't.

That is, of course, assuming that the government will allow Trump to mount a defense. If it doesn't, well then we know where things stand.