Weaponizing The Judiciary: Democratic Prosecutors + Democratic Judges; Republican Prosecutors + Republican Judges: Bad Math, Very Bad Math (December 4, 2023)
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K “If there are any competent ones in the future to chronicle our present, historians may consider it a bad idea.”
J “This may be the Age of Bad Ideas.”
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K “The Democratic prosecutors have done a far more effective job teaming up with Democratic judges to prosecute Republicans. The Republicans are vicious and ruthless enough to follow suit, yet they are clearly behind the eight ball.”
J “Give them a chance. They are just slow. You know Republicans.”
K “The courts really are political war zones.”
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K “In my more than fifty years observing the judiciary, both state and federal courts, I have watched the system degenerate into a filthy cess pool of corruption and cronyism.”
J “Don’t lose faith. It can get worse.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
We live in a country with many, many, many rules and many, many, many laws, but we do not live in a country that believes in or adheres to the rule of law.
You cannot get out of bed in the morning without violating some section of title 18 of the United States Code, the federal criminal code. In fact, and as a matter of law, you cannot stay in bed in the morning without violating some section of title 18 of the United States Code, the federal criminal code. In practice, the United States is a system of men not laws because men and women opt from the panoply of laws that punish all behavior and decide who is and who is not imprisoned.
There is no law. There is only ideology.
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