Talkin' Politics | June 12, 2023: "I'm So Indicted..." Missouri GOP model being [5:00-10:01]

We all know the image of Lady Justice holding the scale she wears a blindfold for a reason. Not because justice is truly blind to reality, but because justice, real justice at its core, isn't about who is in the room, what their job or elected position was or is or what their income is. Real justice is about accountability. Accountability is the core of the rule of law and the rule of law is the core of the American constitutional system. Mark Twain once wrote, the administration of law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case or in cases which fall under his eye. Now, he was talking about accountability of the system itself, but that applies in both directions. It can't be lax in one case in favor of another. We're going to hear over and over again this argument that what happened with Hillary Clinton is the same thing that happened with Donald Trump and she wasn't prosecuted, but that is political fodder because the facts of the situations are remarkably different. Anybody who takes time to look at the actual facts can see that difference very clearly and very plainly, and that's why this case is so important from an accountability standpoint, because it is past a question of politics. It is a question of fact applied to the law. Accountability can be messy, accountability can test patients, but real accountability under the law requires a foundation built on facts, on evidence, and on exhaustive investigation. Jack Smith's work, the resulting indictment of a former president for the first time in the United States history, is a serious move of accountability, one of a kind, first in history, in a world based on the rule of law, an necessity not for political purposes, but to secure the very core of the rule of law and of the American constitutional system. It has been and continues to be about accountability. Now here's talking politics. Talking politics. All right, we hear for talking politics, and right now it's just me and it's Rachel. Rachel Parker is here. It's Adam Summer. Sean Diller will join us very soon. I had one of those weeks where it was just kind of like fast and furious go-go-go and had a conference this week, a continuing legal education conference to go to, I got to play a little golf. When this comes out, I'll be on my way. Most of you who listen to this in the first half of the day, I'll be on my way to St. Lewis to play golf again. I'm playing in a charity golf tournament for Wret Syndrome Foundation, the International Wret Syndrome Foundation paired with the WashU Wret Syndrome clinic that they have there. That's where our daughter Clara goes, and so it raises funds for that at the Lake of the Woods. You can just have a link in the show notes if you want to kick some dollars in. It's a great program and a great cause and it helps families who get the diagnosis of Wret Syndrome, which is a pretty major diagnosis to receive and it gives them a place to go and get all of the specialists that you have to see in one trip and anybody who's ever had to deal with that kind of stuff knows that that is massive to be able to do that. I have had to deal with that kind of shit. To be able to do a half a day where you see every doctor, you just go, boom, boom, boom. And there's an interest practitioner that has already set up the schedule for you and she and she ushers you through the process. Like Jesus and shit is the best it really is. It really is incredible. Yeah. And they're exceptional. It's just really good. It's a really good thing. It's the best way to deal with an unthinkably difficult situation. Exactly. Exactly. That link will be there if folks want to contribute to that and there's funding for families who can't afford to necessarily stay in town. There's funding for the clinic itself. There's all kinds of good stuff and it does a lot of good. So we will put that link in there and Amanda works with the charity. My wife Amanda works with the charity some and helps plan events as well. So yeah, how about you Rachel? How's the weekend? You know, and what you're sipping on, I've got actually I went coffee. I've got a iced coffee situation going here. It's unusual for you to do that that much caffeine at this time of day. It is unusual. It means that you have to do more than usual after now or just because you're so shattered that that's the only way this can happen.