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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Someone should look up the maximum sentence for what he's been charged with. The current biggest hold-ups are not being able to make someone appear in multiple trials in different places simultaneously, and avoiding the appearance that the court is trying to interfere with an election.

You don't want the court to not care about the appearance of interfering with elections, or else you'll have the GoP trying to get Democrat politicians on dubious charges that they'll definitely not be guilty of but will definitely bury them in scandal and prevent them from campaigning effectively.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, these Trump trial judges are bending over backwards to avoid any grounds for mistrial. In one sense they are doing the right thing inside the legal framework, but look at the downsides.

The public is watching how a rich and powerful man can game the system, even as a criminal defendant the system is working for him. Every incarcerated person can see the reality: they were treated with default brutality, but Trump is treated as royalty.

And even worse, they are allowing Trump to delay every verdict until after the election. If he wins the election he pardons himself, this is a horrible precedent for our democracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I could not possibly have said it better than this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain his conduct during the proceedings themselves would have landed me or anyone else in jail by now. (And/Or with a fine that required us to do more than lift up our couch cushions.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

(And/Or with a fine that required us to do more than lift up our couch cushions.)

That's a problem with the amount of fine being set by law and despite likely not being as wealthy as claimed, Trump still has enough money that $10k isn't going to hurt him.

Jailing him for contempt has all the same logistical problems imprisoning him is going to, but at a smaller, less secure facility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Right, right.

2 Justice systems.