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emptywheelMerrick Garland Names War Crimes Prosecutor Jack Smith to Oversee Trump Investigations
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@ryanschultz sorry, genuinely curious why a profile picture and a paragraph about one’s interests is necessary? Personally, I’ve been enjoying the easy anonymity of this site, which hasn’t seemed to limit my interactions. I have a job where I’d rather not have any identifying info about me online, and the anonymity of a blank profile and no pic makes me feel freer to express myself in comments and reblogs.
Smith has reputation for being an aggressive litigator who does not shy away from trials. “Being able to try a case is what gets defense attorneys to take you seriously. It’s what gets guilty people to plead guilty. I don’t think anybody could say that about this section now.” https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/us/politics/justice-depts-watchdog-on-graft-is-finding-its-teeth-again.html
@couts that is a resoundingly excellent observation. Thank you.
@BoozyBadger this is a really great thread. I agree with all of your points and hadn’t fully considered the negative potential of jury nullification. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts!
@QasimRashid that is incredible. The hypocrisy is overwhelming.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Mitch McConnell—who is in an interracial marriage—just voted no on codifying interracial marriage.
If this is what MAGA GOP thinks about their own spouses, imagine what they think of Black & brown people unrelated to them.
@akuersten Agreed on all fronts. Originalism, paraded as the opposite of judicial activism, is the most confused and itinerant project imaginable. Also hilarious how strict textualist originalists refuse to consider any leg. history in statutory interpretation, but write lengthy opinions analyzing the leg. history and public discourse surrounding the const’l convention. That said, seems like if this Court adopts your theory, it will be through that kind of const’l history analysis.
After losing the Senate last week because they are wholly out of touch with the American people, 37 Republican Senators just voted to criminalize interracial marriage.
It's 2022 and interracial marriage is a bridge too far for MAGA GOP.🤦🏽♂️
Keep voting them all out.
@akuersten Super interesting. I’d support this interpretation, but I wonder if the current (allegedly) originalist and strict-textualist Supreme Court also would.