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[taking a page from #Trump’s script] #LePen's right-hand man, #RN president Jordan #Bardella, said: "Today it is not only Marine Le Pen who was unjustly convicted: It was French #democracy that was killed".
[She embezzled. That’s a #crime. When you commit a crime, & it’s proven in a court of #law, you face penalties. Period. Just like Trump committed his proven crimes. But the #US let him run anyway, so he faced no repercussions by winning. The US system failed where #France’s system held.]
![Heather Cox Richardson rule of Law
3/30/25
[Invasion by “illegals”]
That wildly exaggerated vision has enabled Republicans to justify throwing overboard the due process on which American rights are based. On Friday, Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) told booing constituents: “You violated the rules, you are not entitled to due process.” In fact, in the United States, the due process of law is what establishes whether someone has violated the “rules,” otherwise known as the law.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/257/354/330/281/743/original/ccf0f4c2f1c3b611.jpeg "Heather Cox Richardson rule of Law
3/30/25
[Invasion by “illegals”]
That wildly exaggerated vision has enabled Republicans to justify throwing overboard the due process on which American rights are based. On Friday, Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) told booing constituents: “You violated the rules, you are not entitled to due process.” In fact, in the United States, the due process of law is what establishes whether someone has violated the “rules,” otherwise known as the law.")
