To the Editor:
Re “Conviction Acts as Rallying Cry for Republicans” (entrance web page, June 1):
This can be an excessive amount of to ask of residents who’ve already given a lot, however it may very well be immensely highly effective if a number of jurors from former President Donald Trump’s hush cash trial publicly defined how they arrived at 34 counts of responsible to reaffirm that he acquired a good trial. For the security of the jurors, maybe there’s a manner to do that with out divulging their identities.
This received’t silence the Republican leaders rallying to the ex-president, however it could resonate with common People searching for a good and truthful voice to elucidate why the previous president is now a convicted felon.
David Baldwin
Petaluma, Calif.
To the Editor:
There have been a lot of letters and opinion items criticizing the district lawyer, Alvin Bragg, claiming that he has been too inventive weaving current legal guidelines collectively in an effort to make the case for a felony versus a misdemeanor, and that the costs would have by no means been introduced if Donald Trump had been an extraordinary citizen.
I don’t doubt that is true, and I applaud Mr. Bragg for the braveness of his conviction (pun meant) and creativity. The jurors didn’t appear to have any downside together with his case.
And along with the three important ongoing instances in Washington, D.C., Georgia and Florida, there are a number of lesser-known civil lawsuits pending in opposition to him.
It is a sample of dishonesty and illegality from a person in search of to carry the best workplace within the land. It demonstrates a scarcity of an ethical compass and confirms that he’s a fraud. It startles me that individuals assist and belief him.
Invoice Barrett
Torrey, Utah
To the Editor:
Re “The Trump Trial’s Nice Anticlimax,” by Michelle Goldberg (column, Could 22):
Ms. Goldberg is dissatisfied by a latest ballot that confirmed solely 16 % of People adopted Donald Trump’s trial very carefully. The trial lasted practically two months, and I’m amongst those that adopted it very carefully. Most People are busy with their jobs and different obligations; I had the time wanted for this prolonged present.
It appears to me that this present was very nicely deliberate. It had suspense (we didn’t understand how the jury would vote). It had loads of intercourse from Stormy Daniels, and it had vivid testimony about “catch and kill” offers from David Pecker. Michael Cohen’s tales of doing the bidding of Donald Trump and struggling for it describe at a person’s stage what Mr. Trump has completed to each the Republican Get together and America.
And the way about that ending: The protection referred to as solely two witnesses, considered one of whom turned out to be a Trump witness for the prosecution.
Lastly, the trial led Mr. Trump to check himself to Al Capone. What author would have put that within the script?
James Phillips
Summit, N.J.
To the Editor:
As I used to be watching protection of the Trump verdict, I used to be struck by the quantity of people that identified it could be unfair to offer a 77-year-old man a jail sentence. This then raises the query: If he’s too previous to go to jail, why isn’t he too previous to be president?
Frank Dunau
Wellesley, Mass.
A Plea for Shorter Campaigns
To the Editor:
Studying information protection of elections in Britain, South Africa, and so on., I’m struck by how they accomplish their ends in such a brief interval.
Maybe if we didn’t enable presidential campaigns to final for 2 years, a number of the toxicity of partisanship may be ameliorated. The best way we at the moment undertake these elections is extra like leisure than significant politics.
Mary Ann Sternberg
Baton Rouge, La.
Nurses’ Perspective on Gun Violence
To the Editor:
Re “How the Pandemic Reshaped American Gun Violence” (nytimes.com, Could 14):
This text studies and illustrates how gun violence has grow to be an on a regular basis facet of life for communities throughout america. Representing the primary line of protection in care settings, nurses share within the struggling that impacts sufferers and their households.
Nurses witness the carnage, wounds, tears, screams, anger and sheer lack of human life that outcome from gun violence. If we have been to frequently broadcast the accounts from nurses, the indecision and inaction that forestall significant laws to handle gun security and firearm entry would finish. Scrambling to cease the bleeding from a bullet in somebody who was at college, at work, at a grocery retailer, is routine for a lot of nurses.
We’d like options now. Limiting the provision of handguns, requiring weapons to be securely saved, instituting ready durations throughout purchases, mandating common background checks for all firearm purchases, in addition to closing loopholes for personal and gun present gross sales, are just some examples.
When will we notice that one thing is deeply fallacious? How lengthy will leaders sit idly whereas this public well being disaster continues?
Jennifer Mensik Kennedy
Eugene, Ore.
The author is president of the American Nurses Affiliation.
Recommendation for Elon Musk: Discover That means on Earth, Not in Outer Area
To the Editor:
Re “Life in SpaceX’s Firm City,” by Christopher Hooks (Opinion visitor essay, Could 26):
What a tragic, unhappy essay, so nicely completed by Mr. Hooks. The SpaceX mission is to save lots of humankind from the potential collapse of this planet by going to different planets? But, we take ourselves — the supply of our troubles on Earth — with us.
Area is not going to cleanse us of our hubris, our avarice, our destructiveness. Elon Musk thinks that by going into house he may “discover out the that means of life”? The that means is correct right here, proper now.
That means is made, not discovered. The that means is a sequence of clichés: Be variety to at least one one other. Assist each other. Look after each other. Make sure that everyone seems to be fed and housed and supported. Care for the Earth for our personal sake and the sake of all different beings.
Get the celebs out of your eyes and stay the stunning, superb, humble, deeply satisfying human life that this planet makes potential for us.
Jonathan P. Levin
Northampton, Mass.
