Tonight — ever the feckless dolt, Hinderaker pretends not to understand why the abduction to rural Louisiana, of a Columbia U. grad student with a green card (and an eight months pregnant US citizen wife) is an important issue — regardless of the ultimate merits hearing to come.

But someone he has lavished praise upon, on the far right — understands. The right to counsel… matters — in felony criminal proceedings.

In fact, there was a time, in about 2019, when she was actually serving as his… frontal lobe.

[Updated — near Midnight Eastern: Mirengoff also blows past the obvious access to counsel issue, and “makes up” a scenario where the man directly engaged in violence — to get to his protected speech suppressing result.]

This is not just a “liberals’ issue“. This is not “a bad cause“, John.

This is a question of whether a Nouveau Reich will rule us, or whether we still have the right to peacefully protest for the redress of grievances — and then the right to counsel, when detained. This should concern Hinderaker.

But it doesn’t — because at bottom, he doesn’t support our robust system of ordered liberty.

He wants an authoritarian dictatorship. An orange one.

Charming. I’m here to see to it that he won’t ever get it.

Out.