I didn’t read the article. Let me guess… Conservatives areas live shorter, lower quality lives? Who would’ve thought the state providing actual services and support with tax dollars could increase quality of life!?!
Yeah, our Founding Fathers clearly believed that to secure the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, governments were wholly unnecessary. They split from Britain and set up their own government just for funsies.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
Congress absolutely has, per the Constitution, clear authority to regulate the SCOTUS. How's this for an exception. The Supreme Court shall have no Jurisdiction in any case where any member of the court has a conflict of interest or even the appearance of a conflict of interest and refuses to recuse themselves?
Doesn’t this leave the original lawyer open to some sort of complaint. If he told his client to perjure himself then surely this can have consequences.
The interesting bit to me here is about Woodward. He appeared to be advising certain clients in a way that was both illegal and which put the client paying the bills at an advantage.
So the trump lawyer syndicate is advising clients to perjure themselves to help the boss, and sensible independent lawyers are saying fuck that, do you really want to go to jail for decades for that shyster who doesn’t care about you and won’t even pay your bills?
Lol worst crime family ever and everyone saw this coming. Where’s my tiny violin?
A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.
The aide — described as “Trump Employee 4” in public court filings but identified elsewhere as Yuscil Taveras — held the title of director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago. He initially testified to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., that he was unaware of any effort to erase the videos, but after getting the new attorney “immediately … retracted his prior false testimony” and detailed the alleged effort to tamper with evidence related to the investigation of the handling of classified information stored at Trump’s Florida home, the new submission said.
I’m still not holding my breath until I see Trump facing actual consequences, but he sure does look to be screwed.
the point of having a justice system is other than for it to be used on “lesser” folk.
This has always been the case. See citations with fines = poor tax. Or, public defenders. Or, the SCoTUS having been saturated in corruption for decades now — if ever there were a moment it wasn’t, in fact. Or, any one of the myriad ways the justice system is anything but
It doesn’t matter if he suddenly suicides by double-tap and a 17 story swan dive. This country’s a hair’s breadth from full-on, unfettered fascism, and then our oh-so precious Democracy™ will be well & truly fucked. We should all, worldwide, be thinking of what we do at that point, not crossing fingers Drumpf gets his just desserts. (Though that would certainly be refreshing, yes.)
Poor person wrongs a poor person = whatever, let the police figure it out and maybe they’ll randomly get justice, the rich don’t care
Poor person wrongs a rich person = they’re fucked and buried by the justice system
Rich person wrongs a poor person = slap on the wrist, and only because the poor person wasted a lot of money to get there
Rich person wrongs multiple rich people = Justice actually gets served because the rich pour all of their resources to get them there (see Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes, etc.)
Hell, the rich will even put up with some other rich person’s bullshit, as long as they are useful in some other capacity. This is Trump, but Trump has outlived his usefulness, so he’s getting thrown to the wolves.
There is a second remedy: constitutional amendment. Not sure exactly who should be watching the watchers if it’s not Congress. But we can assign someone to do so.
Maybe a supermajority of district court judges should rule on issues involving SCOTUS justices.
Gorsuch is really weird. He’s always gonna be theirs but he’s gonna side with us in really weird ways sometimes. I don’t think he’ll ever be Alito levels.
Bush is only moderate now that we have fascists and terrorist as a segment of the party. I wish we could stop acting like Republicans were ever reasonable. At least in recent history.
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