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I know it won't be satisfactory, but I'm still looking for someone who understands how these legal mechanisms are supposed to work to talk me through it. I simply don't have the legal education to be making a more informed statement, and clearly neither does anyone else here.
While it's easy to shout "Oligarchy!" the details still fucking matter.
There literally isn't a reason.
Ok and I personally think that attitude is gonna help Republicans memory hole how things actually worked in the past by throwing up your hands and giving up instead of trying to find out details.
But you do you man, I'm still gonna at least try to find out things, even if the only thing it helps is having one more person remember how systems were supposed to function and continues talking about it to others.
The reason is that many people are not doing their jobs. Cut and dry end of story.
I both understand and empathize with your search for meaning here, but that is the meaning.
I understand and empathize with the perspectives in reply to this as well, I just think its defeatist thinking at a moment when feelings of defeat are rather unhelpful to any cause trying to protect people, even if very valid to feel.
I hear you, and I understand where you're coming from. But there literally isn't a legal argument for any of it. The SCOTUS has been corrupted and has invalidated their own credibility, and corrupt judges and politicians have been handing down legally indefensible rulings for years. Their justification is "fuck you. What are you gonna do about it?"
Legal systems must be consistent to be valid. Selective application of legal reasoning has exposed our courts to malfeasance. It is rotten at the core, and any justice handed down is unintended coincidence.
Basically their goal is to delay the release until Jan. 20th (inauguration), when Trump's DOJ will bury it for him. The legal system is chock full of ways to delay things, just ask for a ruling on something and BAM, automatic delay. So they filed a motion asking the release to be delayed until the federal appeals court in Atlanta makes a decision on what will happen to Trump's two co-defendants:
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Thanks so much, this is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. This still sucks but it at least makes more sense.