In Trump, SCOTUS's conservative wing worried about theoretical prosecutors bringing politically-motivated charges against the most powerful person on earth. In Glossip, they worry that prosecutors whose misconduct put a likely innocent man on death row . . . might suffer harm to their reputations.

Clarence Thomas Thinks the Real Victims Are Prosecutors Who Engage in Misconduct

Clarence Thomas is leaping through crazy hoops to try to kill Richard Glossip.

“I think you want [prosecutors] to confess Napue errors. You want them to confess Brady errors,” Clement said. “I think you want them to say straight up, if we blew it and there's a Napue violation here, we should confess it.” Uh, yes?

CGchrisgeidner.bsky.socialOct 10, 2024 12:08am

NEW: When a prosecutor says that someone is on death row based on a lie, a just system would fix that. In our system, the outcome for Richard Glossip is still uncertain. Law Dork, from SCOTUS: www.lawdork.com/p/the-glossi...

The Glossip arguments at SCOTUS were a two-hour reminder of our legal system's failings

When a prosecutor says that someone is on death row based on a lie, a just system would fix that. In our system, the outcome for Richard Glossip is still uncertain.

Better a hundred innocent men be lethally injected than two prosecutors be impugned

LHlawrencehurley.bsky.socialOct 9, 2024 10:11pm

One striking moment in the argument was how animated Justice Thomas was -- not about the potential miscarriage of justice, but at the idea that prosecutors originally involved in the case didn't get a chance to defend their conduct, almost as if THEY somehow suffered a due process violation:

Who will be the journalist brave enough to ask Pete Alonso if this is what got them this far during NLCS media availability?

The whole internet is becoming the "Dermatologists HATE him" crud we used to scroll past

Mmattyeg.bsky.socialOct 9, 2024 10:44pm

Slate: Elon’s Twitter has a real problem with people posting fake facts for revenue. Also Slate:

losing it every time I see the farxiga ad of a half full stadium aggressively chanting the name of a medication

I’m very happy that instead of watching Game 5 on Friday night, I’ll be at Kol Nidre, atoning for all of my Mets-based idolatry 🎃🟣

I have gotten into a discussion over various American teams spelling “hurricanes” in Hebrew for Jewish promotions and lol Miami spells it Hurrikanz

Sam champion was my weatherman growing up and of course for others here it was Al roker. This was a big deal growing up for sure

Apology for this non sequitur but I was just thinking, growing up you had weatherman James Spann WBMA. I had a weatherman, Rich Thomas WSFA. Like I knew the weatherman's name and would instantly recognize him. I don't think my 11yo has literally ever seen a local weatherman. Weird thing that's gone