If it wasn’t already abundantly clear, the current administration gives zero fucks about the judiciary.
They must care about it a bit considering they want to abolish it and replace it with whatever Trump says goes.
It’s the same reason dictators love elections: they appoint the people who run them to wrap the dictators actions in a veil of fake approval and oversight. It’s just rubber stamping fascism.
Eliminating elections would not harm dictators. Elections, like all democratic institutions need to be maintained and supported to maintain a democracy.
I feel you misunderstood. North Korea has elections. Russia has elections. Syria under Assas had elections. Strangely, the dictators always won by huge margins. Many dictators have a farce of a democracy to both give the people they rule a veneer of hope of freedom and to muddy the waters on the international stage.
Stalin had elections in Soviet Russia but he made it clear he didn’t care who voted. He cared about who counted the votes. Once the democratic institutions are subverted and their independence destroyed by a leader that leader gets to choose who sits in the seats: judges, legislators, bureaucrats, officers, and especially elections officials.
You’re right about the citizens being responsible for defending the institutions. In the end, the ultimate responsibility for the health of the republic lies with the people, not the government. The US does not understand just how much we have failed to defend the republic and we are on the verge of losing it.
I understood your statement, but the underlying connotation was “elections are bad”. Elections can be fair. Unfair elections can be restored, but not easily.
Option A: have a real court that judges against you and points out all the crimes you commit.
Option B: A court that judges in your favor and makes up rules to support your actions after the fact.
Hmm, which court does a dictator want?
Baby steps.
This is just the start.
Looks like flying leaps from where I sit.
After dismissing the jurors, Summerville also permanently dismissed the Suffolk County District Attorney’s case against Martell-Lebron due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Good.
I’m gonna guess the “suspect” was just trying to get by for his family, as most “illegals” are really doing. Just trying to get by.
And after they’ve deported so many people who’ve come to the country to work hard and pay the taxes that American billionaires aren’t, when employers can’t find anyone to fill jobs, they’ll just spin up the lie of young people not wanting to work, rather than recognize the contributions of hardworking immigrants to American society.
young people not wanting to work,
Some of the lowest unemployment numbers in US History, but young people still “don’t want to work”.
I wonder how long it will be until one of these supposed “plainclothes agents” is shot. Part of the reason that cops wear uniforms is that it make it clear to the public that when they’re grabbing someone off the street it isn’t a kidnapping.
Tbf, they can still be in uniform and it can be a kidnapping.
Qualified immunity notwithstanding.
They might get away with it in a low firearm state like NY, but if they’re in Florida, and a bunch of guys try to drag away a screaming woman, they might find themselves catching bullets.
Makes me wonder how many of these kidmappings have happened in red states.
Video of the abduction. Good on the people of Boston for shouting them down in the street. Looks like some ICE goons without masks this time.
The coopting of Norse culture is sad and fucked up,
but I’d bet dollars to donuts home dude in the pagan hoodie is an all out white supremacist.Guy in the pagan hoodie was just a bystander. No?
That group of guys walking away after the car pulls away were plain clothed officers. At least thats what it looks like to me.
The guy with the short woman by his side? Are you sure?
Absolutely not, I’m a random speculating wildly over here. I thought that was the dude with the sunglasses with his back to the car. Rewatching he has different pants.
ICE alleges that Martell-Lebron is really named Juan Carlos Baez and is originally from the Dominican Republic.
Yeah, that’s almost definitely a lie.
He allegedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2000, ICE said.
And even if it wasn’t, he’s been in the country for a quarter of a century without causing any trouble beyond allegedly lying on application.
If those standards were applied to native born Americans, Washington would be a ghost town.
From the article:
Martell-Lebron was found guilty of two counts of trafficking cocaine and one count of trafficking heroin in Middlesex Superior Court in 2009, court documents show. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison after already serving a little less than two years while awaiting trial.
He got out in
20002020. So “a decade of not causing any trouble” is technically true, but only because he was already in prison.2000?
Nope, 2020, fat fingers, I’ll edit.
Makes sense
*century, not decade, presumably
Thanks, fixed it 😁
give him 90 days in gen pop.
Lock. His. Fucking. Ass. Up.
Let’s see how am ICE agent fares in gen pop.
Just rename ICE to SA at this point.
James Borghesani, a spokesperson for the Suffolk County DA, said in a statement that they were “dismayed and surprised” when Martell-Lebron was detained. He said their office asked ICE to return Martell-Lebron.
I’m sure they’ll drop him right back off at the courthouse if all the kindhearted prosecutors do is ask nicely. /s
Judge Mark Summerville should be awarded the Medal of Honor.
(I know it’s specifically for military members but in this case there should be an exemption.)
