Rittenhouse Prosecutors Seek to Criminalize Constitutional Self-Defense

There is social justice, and then there’s courtroom justice. As the ongoing Kyle Rittenhouse trial illustrates, never the twain shall meet.

Rittenhouse was indicted by mob-compliant Wisconsin prosecutors for murdering two men and attempting to murder two others when he was attacked three nights into the radical left’s rioting in Kenosha on August 25, 2020. As this is written, the trial, which began last week, has taken a remarkable turn: Despite a stunningly weak case presented by the state — one that could perhaps have been thrown out by the judge as woefully insufficient when the prosecutors rested on Tuesday — Rittenhouse has elected to testify. Despite the obvious risk in this, he has fared well thus far. Prosecutors flailed on cross-examination, became argumentative, and were repeatedly chastised in the jury’s presence by the understandably exasperated trial judge, Bruce Schroeder.