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How to conduct an impeachment trial in record time (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is phenomenally bad strategy from the government. All of this information can be obtained from:

public sources like FlightAware, X, and Truth Social; and
from eyewitness prisoners who went on the flights and came back to Texas. That's right. At least one guy was refused admission by El Salvador, because he's actually Nicaraguan and not Venezuelan at all. And there were eight women prisoners who were also refused. They all got back on the plane and they're now back in Texas, within federal court jurisdiction.

I don't see how state secrets privilege can keep the public evidence, the video promo, and the eyewitness testimony out of court. This can only serve to weaken the power of the privilege without providing any concrete benefit to the government.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's like when you look at a piece of wood on your deck and you think: "do I need to replace that whole plank, or is it just fine?" So you stick a knife in to see how solid the wood is, does the knife immediately stop or does it plunge right through.

So we shall see just how rotten things are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, we won't. Has anything changed?