I don’t get it. What is the point of creating laws that specifically exempt some public servants from basic bribery laws?
So they can take more bribes, obviously.
Please tell me that's not a thing
It seems very much to be a thing.
I actually heard a (Republican, naturally) lawyer on NPR yesterday morning call the U.S. justice system the best one in the world.
If that's true, the world is seriously fucked.
It's all about perspective. Do you profit of prison labor? Do you get paid for defending pieces of shit? America sounds fuckin awesome for those people.
Considering this guy was a lawyer defending Republican politicians, there's no question about the latter.
That said, he wasn't 100% optimistic about Trump's legal woes, so at least he's a little worried.
We have more people locked up per capita than anywhere else; if that’s not a success measure I don’t know what is!
Excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a bit.
They're right when looking at the specs. Took british common law then added a bunch of inalienable rights.
We fucked up the implementation.
So I'm sure politicians like MTG, who are going after the Fulton County DA over a few trips they say are evidence of a big kickback scheme, are going to be all over this Federal Judge whose wife is directly benefiting from his rulings. Right?
Oh, never mind, this judge has the magic (R) after his name, which makes him immune to consequences like that. How silly of me.
and what do you do? Oh you're a judge? I'm so sorry, how embarrassing for you. Still, could be worse, you could be a Supreme Court Justice
In any event, my wife’s practice is to donate honoraria to charity.
So where did the money go?
Yech. All these people look like demons.
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