Mugshot Watch 📸

Also: Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Matters

Mugshot Watch
It turns out Trump was right — the arrest will be on a Tuesday. Now the Left clamors for a mugshot. He should take the advice of other targeted Republicans before him — Rush Limbaugh, Rick Perry, Tom DeLay, among others—and smile just to irk the Left.

According to reporter Michael Isikoff, “Trump will not be put in handcuffs, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot — typical procedures even for white-collar defendants until a judge has weighed in on pretrial conditions.”

Speaking of Rick Perry, Mark Hemingway at The Federalist notes that we’re not exactly in uncharted territory:

In 2014, Perry was indicted on two felony charges. The first charge was abuse of official capacity, and the second was coercion of a public servant. Perry’s crime was using the veto power granted to him in the Texas Constitution.

What happened was this: Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, was convicted of drunk driving and incarcerated. Working from the Travis County DA’s office, Lehmberg managed the state public integrity unit, a legal office responsible for rooting out public corruption. After she refused to resign her position following a fair bit of criticism over the fact that a person in charge of rooting out public corruption should not be known for being convicted of a crime, Perry threatened to veto the public integrity unit’s $7.5 million budget and eventually did veto the budget.

So the Travis County DA’s office, the very same office where Lehmberg worked, convened a grand jury and indicted Perry. It wasn’t difficult; aside from the old saying that prosecutors could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, Travis County is where “the People’s Republic of Austin” is located. It’s a notoriously liberal enclave where it is easy to find a jury politically hostile to Perry, who was an otherwise popular three-term GOP governor.

Following the indictment, Perry was forced to come in and be fingerprinted, and he was even forced to take a mugshot that was publicly released. There’s little doubt that whatever the outcome of the trial, a goal here was to publicly embarrass Perry, who was gearing up to run for president in 2016. In fact, the week Perry was forced to come in for his mugshot, he was scheduled to visit New Hampshire in preparation for his anticipated presidential campaign.

So, two takeaways:

• Always smile your mugshot (I bet you forgot Perry even had one!)

• It’s not just about Trump, this is the Left’s MO — even in Texas and Florida

RELATED:

How to take an iconic mugshot (The Spectator)

Live updates on the indictment (The New York Post)

Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Matters
Today’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election presents an opportunity for the Left to reverse years of conservative victories in the state. If liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz wins, it could have significant implications for issues such as voting rights and redistricting. In The Federalist, two Wisconsinites argue that the outcome of the election will be a bellwether for the direction of Wisconsin's politics in the coming years.

RELATED: WI's Protasiewicz, Kelly face off in most expensive Supreme Court race in US history (Fox News)