It’s incredible: the judiciary and most of our elected representatives are more concerned with the appearance of political motives in prosecution than with the actual crimes and their incredibly corrosive impact on the country. The myopia is baffling.
The NY appeals court’s solicitude toward Trump’s career of massive fraud is my least favorite news of the day. www.politico.com/news/2024/09...
A panel of judges voiced skepticism about the size and validity of the nearly half-billion-dollar judgment.
Every time a judge seems inclined to hold him accountable, there’s another judge who wants to moderate that. Are they afraid for the judiciary itself?
My guess is that there are multiple reasons. One, the judges are rightwing and/or have their heads up their ass, not understanding they should apply the law to him like a citizen, and others are afraid, thinking there’s a delicate balance in some way that they’d disrupt by taking action.
Somebody needs to write something about this—it would make a great book, actually.
No harm: no crime? Madness. I was fined for speeding on an empty road at 1 pm. Will I get a refund? And compensation for consequential losses, because my insurance costs went up? And loss of enjoyment; I had to buy a smaller car?
Law and order, but ‘law’ is written on a cocktail napkin in the trash and ‘order’ is engraved on a 50 ft. tall statue of Reagan
"We wouldn't want to weigh in and appear *biased*," says people whose job is specifically to weigh in and make decisions based on evidence.
It's a blank check for politicians (at least, the ones they like) to commit any crimes they want. Because you can use "the appearance of political motives" as an excuse for inaction in literally any situation involving a politician.
We should just declare that if you're involved in politics, you can crime.
Given what we’ve just learned about Supreme Court ethics standards, isn’t “they’re corrupt and taking some form of bribes from Trump” the Occam’s Razor explanation. Otherwise it’s “why do these highly educated independent minded public servants keep failing to see the consequences of injustice?”