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Sunday, February 25, 2024

News bits: Authoritarian law; TTKP elites & inconvenient truth; Etc.

The AP reports about what the rule of the thug authoritarian looks like: 
In October 2021, [Illinois Courts County Judge Robert] Adrian had found then 18-year-old Drew Clinton of Taylor, Michigan, guilty of sexual assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a May 2021 graduation party.

The state Judicial Inquiry Board filed a complaint against Adrian after the judge threw out Clinton’s conviction in January 2022, with the judge saying that the 148 days Clinton had spent in jail was punishment enough.

The complaint said Adrian had acknowledged he was supposed to impose the mandatory four-year sentence against Clinton, but that he would not send him to prison. “That is not just,” Adrian said at the sentencing hearing, according to court transcripts. “I will not do that.”  
But in Friday’s decision, the commission wrote that it found Adrian’s claim that “he reversed his guilty finding based on his reconsideration of the evidence and his conclusion that the State had failed to prove its case to be a subterfuge — respondent’s attempt to justify the reversal post hoc.”

Clinton cannot be tried again for the same crime under the Fifth Amendment. A motion to expunge Clinton’s record was denied in February 2023.
“I will not do that.” And the rapist gets off, free to do it again because it was so much fun the first time.

That is the epitome of the rule of the authoritarian thug over the rule of law. ‘I do what I want, not what the laws says’. 

That is precisely what the TTKP (Trump Tyranny & Kleptocracy Party, formerly the Republican Party) wants to do but is far more subtle about it than this goon. The TTKP know that all it needs to do is gain enough power to make what the goon Adrian do legal. By legalizing what is illegal, thugs, grifters, tyrants, rapists, racists, bigoted haters and cynical liars get what they want. And, it is all perfectly legal!

Dishonorable judge Bob
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The Hill reports about insulting, cynical TTKP idiots and liars trying to deal with the Alabama court decision that says human embryos are children:
A few hours later, Haley seemed to walk back her initial comment.

“I didn’t say that I agreed with the Alabama ruling,” Haley told CNN, but she added she still believes “an embryo is an unborn baby.” [the tried and true “I didn't say what I said” defense]
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who is being talked about as a potential running mate for former President Trump, evaded the question. “Well, I haven’t studied the issue,” Scott told reporters Thursday in South Carolina before taking a jab at Haley. 

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said he thinks an embryo is a child, but he also seemed confused as to what the decision even was. “We need more kids,” he said. “We need people to have an opportunity to have kids.” [Tuberville is completely clueless about what IVF is, but in his cynical arrogance, he blew his self-righteous smoke about it anyway]
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The Nation asks a question with an obvious answer: Clarence Thomas Broke the Law. Why Is He Not Being Prosecuted? -- The debate about whether Supreme Court justices are bound by ethics rules drew attention away from the fact that Clarence Thomas’s conduct violated federal laws

The answer: Merrick Garland is too gutless and incompetent to do his job.

TN reports that over about 20 years, multi-millionaires and billionaires Harlan Crow, Charles and David Koch, the Koch network, Wayne Huizenga, David Sokol, and Paul Novelly gave Thomas 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, eight helicopter flights, 12 VIP passes to sporting events, attendance as a guest at the exclusive Bohemian Club, travel on a private jet to and lodging at Koch network summits at resorts in California tuition for his nephew in a private school, and a $267,000 loan used to purchase a luxury recreational vehicle. Crow also purchased the home in which Thomas’s mother lived and allowed her to live there rent-free. Thomas reported none of this. All of that violated existing federal law.

Garland ignores crimes by TTKP elites because he does not want to look “political.” Garland is an idiot and a traitor.

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