But that is the most charitable version of denouncing his insipid remarks on the DC Circuit oral argument heard this past week.

He equates it all to CIVIL cases, about money damages, about which he’s had some considerable experience.

But it is CRAZY to argue — in a system of ordered liberty — that if Al Capone were to run for president, he would have been allowed to threaten Elliot Ness at his campaign rallies, or threaten any of the dozens of felony witnesses against him.

That is, we as a people have (at base) to be able to assure that criminals will be prosecuted, without the taint of witnesses clamming up against them — as a result of threats.

In sum, we the people possess a higher right to protect the integrity of felony processes (to keep our society from returning to the law of the wild — animalism), than some moron’s right to tell lies on a campaign circuit.

IDGAF that he’s running for office. Given how violent so many of his minions have shown themselves to be… he MUST be prevented from having judges and prosecutors and witnesses… killed, maimed or menaced into silence.

We the people… are entitled to order him to shut his fat mouth, on it all. We are. See… 18 USC § 1512; United States v. Mastrangelo, 693 F.2d 269, 273 (2d Cir. 1982), and In Re Quarles, 158 U.S. 532, 535 (1895).