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Mar 10, 2023Liked by Yassine Meskhout

Qualified immunity has to go. I’m less sure about prosecutorial or judicial immunity. I’m pretty sure criminal immunity doesn’t protect you from being disbarred or impeached. I think I’d rather see a lot more of those two things than prosecutions.

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Mar 10, 2023Liked by Yassine Meskhout

Yep, the incentives here just seem to not actually prevent this kind of lying / concealment. The risks of being caught are low, and even if caught the consequences again seem tiny. Maybe you throw some cases, but others (maybe even this one) will still proceed and there will just be an argument on "if you squint and look from this angle it's not exculpatory at all". Balance that vs the fact that these violations can pump up your numbers in the majority of cases where you aren't caught and...

I agree it's a problem.

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Hopefully the treatment of the J6 defendants will finally make conservatives stop bootlicking cops and prosecutors. But I have a feeling after these trials, they'll go right back to talking about the "thin blue line".

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Mar 10, 2023Liked by Yassine Meskhout

I’m pretty law-abiding anyhow, but I’ve also kept my nose clean because absolutely fuck getting fisted by the combined powers of the long arm of the law.

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Mar 9, 2023Liked by Yassine Meskhout

Funny, soon as I read the headline, I wondered whether you were aware of the filing in the Nordean case.

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