Gen X Public Defender

@GenXPD
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blasting the criminal legal system in dual fighter mode šŸš€šŸš€
The number of kids’ activities that start prior to 8am these days is a crime against humanity. My kids have two totally separate activities that started before 8am this morning. My parents never had to suffer this. 😭
% of time specialist offices say they didn’t receive a referral that your primary care provider says they sent over
25%
0%
50%
33.3%
This has never happened to me
33.3%
*Old man yells at cloud meme*
33.3%
Poll ended at .
I take no position on the legal theory underlying the Trump indictment, except as follows: I suspect that no one raising the rule of lenity or constitutional protections against vagueness has ever tried getting a court to actually grant a defendant protection under such a theory.

RT @mariabustillos
PUBLISH THE CHARGES

the rest doesn't matter

I frequently find myself wanting to write, "Perhaps the Court will find that it needs to rule for the government one way or another; but it certainly can't do so based on anything said in the answer brief."

GOP politics is an endless stream of purporting to stick it to the weirdos while not realizing that, in fact, they are the weirdos.

https://apnews.com/article/drag-queens-tennessee-bill-legislation-3ed2ddd0e8231819ade5d0c8b9f4c30a

As Tennessee, others target drag shows, many wonder: Why?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — ā€œIf I hadn’t been a girl, I’d have been a drag queen.ā€ Dolly Parton has uttered those words famously and often. But if she really were a drag queen, one of Tennessee’s most famous daughters would likely be out of a job under legislation signed into law by Republican Gov.

Associated Press
I have (well controlled) Bipolar Disorder, and I think my insecurity about having a mental illness has given me a kind of reverse hypochondria. Whenever I get some symptoms, my first thought is that it’s psychosomatic/all in my head. I self-gaslight.
TLDR: Equating what is bad with what should be criminal is the road to mass incarceration
I think marijuana is kimda bad and that the social acceptability of marijuana use has gone a bit too far. However, the legalization of marijuana has not gone far enough. And when you read articles like these, it is crucial to appreciate that the implication is that people should be locked in cages for selling marijuana without a prescription. Which is way worse than people having access to marijuana.
Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.