• John Richard@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The Supreme Court hasn’t had much legitimacy for much longer than you realize. They’ve been taking away consumer and workers rights for decades. You just haven’t realized it until recently when it has become a hot topic and now it is easier to blame Republicans, but overlook everything else.

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      3 months ago

      You just haven’t realized it until recently when it has become a hot topic and now it is easier to blame Republicans, but overlook everything else.

      They’ve been more shameless about it. As in this case, where they’re pretending that obstructing a government proceeding applies only to documents, and where you’re pretending that anything other than ignoring the statute entirely requires enshrining guilt by association into law.

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        3 months ago

        I’m not sure how or whether you gather that they are pretending that obstructing a government proceeding only applies to documents, but that isn’t what I gathered at all. I made two major points…

        1. That if they didn’t question the law, then it would likely apply to Jamaal Bowman and other protests (many of those by Democrat activists)
        2. That doing so was dangerous as it sets a basis for charging everyone with the same crime regardless of evidence of their actual intended purpose.
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          3 months ago

          I’m not sure how or whether you gather that they are pretending that obstructing a government proceeding only applies to documents

          Because I actually read the article instead of immediately being like “buh whuubut BLM?!??!?!”

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              3 months ago

              It’s in the article that you ignored because you’d rather demonize BLM. Don’t bother me again.

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                  3 months ago

                  Not it isn’t

                  From the article you will never read:

                  His attorney argues that Congress intended the obstruction law to apply only to instances where defendants tampered with physical evidence, such as destroying or forging documents used in proceedings.

                  The court is sympathetic to this bullshit argument. Since it’s not demonizing black people, you ignored it.

                  Have a good pipedream

                  Expecting you to quit whatabouting for Trump’s inbred violent minions is a bit of an unrealistic expectation, yes.

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                    3 months ago

                    Where do you gather that the court is sympathetic to the argument? The justices are literally questioning the other components of the same law which clearly involves more than documents. The justices do not indicate that they believe it only pertains to destroying/tampering with documents, and I have no clue how you could gather that from the article.