• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Imprisoning a former president for contempt of court, even as blatant as this, is always going to be a topic of skittishness among the judges. This is an institution that typically loathes setting new precedent when it can avoid it, and imprisoning a former president, one who is running again especially, is a Rubicon that is going to intimidate even the most tough on corruption judge you can have on that bench.

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      They’re setting a precedent either way.

      Either hold decorum over the individual or abandon it.

      How Trump acts, and what he is allowed to get away with, is carte blanche for his followers paying attention.

      If you want to be wealthy, act like the wealthy, right?

      The judges either have spines or they don’t. In that same vein, we either have laws that apply equally, or we don’t have respect for the law across the board.

      This is remedial psychology.

    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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      As much as my justice boner is deflated by this statement, I’d rather have Trump convicted by a jury while having a competent attorney making smart decisions and defending him zealously. The last thing I want is his conviction to be overturned because someone took a shortcut.