• spriteblood
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    21 year ago

    Updated headline:
    Does violate gag order, justice system to do nothing about it because rules don’t apply to the wealthy

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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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.

      The sheer unprecedentedness of this case and the others involving trump are gonna go snails pace simply because of how freaked out the judges will be over making sure every i and t have been dotted and crossed.

      • @CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        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.