Friend of mine lives within walking distance of the gas station where he was just spotted. She's on lockdown, helicopters flying overhead, schools are closed for the day, etc
"This was nothing less than an attempt to violently overthrow the government, the legally, lawfully, peacefully elected government, by individuals who were mad that their guy lost," Chutkan said during one October 2022 hearing, later adding, "it's blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day."(my emphasis)
"The people who exhorted you and encouraged you and rallied you to go and take action and to fight have not been charged," Chutkan said during Palmer's December 2021 sentencing hearing.
Those are simple statements of fact.
Trump's attorneys have indicated they may seek removal to federal court in another of his cases, in which he's charged alongside 18 co-defendants in Fulton County, Georgia, for allegedly orchestrating a "criminal enterprise" to thwart the 2020 election results in battleground state.
Judge Jones' ruling denying Meadows' motion to remove makes it absolutely clear that none of these Georgia defendants meet the "low bar" for federal protection from State prosecution for performing their federal duties. Why? Because interfering in a State election is not a federal duty.
So far as I can tell, the quoted statements were made in the context of trying or sentencing people who physically entered the Capitol on Jan 6, and/or acted with overt violence towards law enforcement. The first quote doesn't reference a defendant, I will need to dig on that one.
The second, however, was during sentencing for one Robert Palmer, "who was sentenced to more than five years in prison for using a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher to attack police."
That second quote recognizes that Palmer, who was already convicted, did not act solely because of his own will, nor did he act as part of a "headless" mob. He, and all the rest of the people who marched on and then used violence to invade the Capitol building didn't just wake up the morning of Jan 6 and decide that that was going to be their outing for the day.
This violent insurrection was fomented by others. That is simply undeniable. And, at the December 2021 date the Chutkan's statement was made, it was true that "The people who exhorted [Palmer] and encouraged [him] and rallied [him] to go and take action and to fight have not been charged."
The subtext to that statement is that "the people who exhorted" should be charged. Not convicted, not lynched, not prejudged - charged, taken to court, before a jury of their peers, and weighed on the scales of justice.
“I see the videotapes. I see the footage of the flags and the signs that people were carrying and the hats that they were wearing, and the garb,” Chutkan said. “And the people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty, in loyalty to one man, not to the Constitution, of which most of the people who come before me seem woefully ignorant; not to the ideals of this county and not to the principles of democracy. It’s blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”
Chutkan is again recognizing the facts of the matter. The people who invaded the Capitol on Jan 6 were there for Trump - whether he directed their specific actions or not (if you watch him speaking at the Ellipse, you can make your own judgment about that). Trump was President of the United States on that day. His complete failure for several hours to take any action whatsoever, as President, to stop the insurrectionists who were acting for him stands in stark and dire contrast to his, in October 2022, having seen no consequence for that inaction. This is with disregard to whether you think he's responsible for actively directing people to insurrection before it began.
He received 6 pints of blood because he was having severe gastrointestinal bleeding. That’s why he was unable to get out by himself, not because he was taking stupid unnecessary risks for thrills. He was part of a research group.
No need. Homo sapiens is near the end anyway. Doesn't matter how it ends, if we get replaced by AIs, the next "Homo geneticmodified"or get wiped out. Kind of awesome to know, right? After 250,000 years, we're among one of the last Homo sapiens. Peak Homo sapiens.
You know what that means, "Homo sapiens"? It means "wise man".
We're going to get completely ridiculed for doing that in the future. Who the fuck even calls themselves "wise man". So lame.
I absolutely disagree that humanity needs to be destroyed because a bunch of men can't stop sexually abusing those around them, but the fact that it seems easier than ever getting them to stop really goes to show how bad the problem really is.
I feel like some people simply want that this gets accepted as natural. It has become normalized and many feel triggered by even mentioning this problem.
Cash bail is giving the court a lot of money as a pledge that you will show up for your trial. If you show up, you get the money back. The point is that it’s a life-changing amount of money and losing it would be worse than the consequences of being convicted.
Non-cash bail is mostly promising to show up for your court date and not commit any more crimes in the meantime, but there can be restrictions like wearing an ankle monitor and not leaving the state.
Also, if the crime is serious enough, the judge can rule to not release at all. One of the screaming points for conservatives in the state is that rapists and murder suspects are just going to be allowed to go free, which is not true at all. There is a list of serious crimes in the statute that judges are granted heavy discretion over in regards to whether the defendant should actually be released.
ALSO, think of this as a way to combat recidivism. One of the reasons people continue to commit crimes even when they’re incarcerated because they can’t afford bail is because they lose their jobs. They end up in jail for a week or more and don’t show up to work, they lose their job that was likely hard for them to get in the first place. It’s a major part of the prison industrial complex and the Right’s war against the poor. Ending cash bail takes away a major component of that.
New Mexico mostly eliminated cash bail about seven years ago but there was still issues . I hope Illinois learned from our mistakes when they wrote their law .
Remember when Elizabeth Warren was set to run Consumer Protection under Obama? Republican Senators bitched and moaned and wouldn’t let her get nominated. So she ran for office and ended up becoming one of them. She got the ultimate revenge. Duckworth did the same thing.
what an austere dumb cheap fucking company. i went in last week and there wasn’t anywhere to get my own soda or ketchups or anything, just a plain dining room. i loved waiting 10 minutes for the 1 guy slaving away back there to get my drink with the food as well instead of having cups by the order kiosk, which WORKED FOR YEARS AND YOU STILL PROFITED HANDSOMELY YOU FUCKING CHEAP FUCKS GOD IT MAKES ME SO SICK IT NEVER ENDS
next they’re going to phase out menus, it’s just 1 button you hit it and it takes $20 from your checking and they give you berder and 10 grammes of french fries
what a fucking dogshit world. companies used to actually give a shit about UX, but now they’re making it as shitty as possible out of attrition
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