Friday, July 5, 2024

Supreme Court’s weakening of public corruption safeguards sparks alarm

 https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4754860-supreme-court-decision-bribery-law-corruption/

Ethics and legal experts warn that the Supreme Court has struck a serious blow to prosecutors’ ability to crack down on the abuse of power and public corruption.

And that’s ringing alarm bells when Donald Trump, who was convicted in May by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and who was hit with a $355 million penalty in a civil fraud trial in February, is leading in the presidential race.

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  1. The 34 counts is a great example of how corrupt the prosecution system already is.
    Trump committed one sin and got hit with 34 charges so it would look like he was a serial criminal.
    It's like me eating 1 pizza and you accusing me of eating 12 unhealthy meals. No I ate one in 12 parts but it was one.
    And this is standard in prosecutions in the US. You commit 1 crime, get charge with 12 different things and the assumption is that you'll see the list and think "Dang, I better do a plea bargain or I'm in big trouble." It's intimidation.

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    1. You start saying the system is against Trump then you say this is a standard prosecution. If it is standard it can't be biased! Why not just say you don't like any system which holds Trump accountable for his many crimes

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    2. The system is biased against the defendants because it gives the prosecutors too much power. That the biased system was used against Trump is further bias.

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