Thursday, February 11, 2021

My problem with the second impeachment.

The Anglo-American system of law does not permit victims to be prosecutor, judge or jury members. 

Here, they are playing all three roles.

Watching the prosudgjurors incite themselves yesterday crystallized it for me. 

And it crystallized that we have been a post-legal society for a while, too. 

Yes, executive immunity kept it from being a federal court matter.

But this isn't any better.

It's all good, I'm sure.


6 comments:

  1. Some might say this is more about government than law. I think women and people of color know well that quite often white men in the US have been post-legal from the beginning. Especially those of the 1%. As for the second impeachment itself, there's as much chance of conviction as there is when a white cop kills a citizen of darker color. Cue a lot of Americans going: yawn.

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  2. Be sure to tell Conrad Black that as a member of the 1%, he is above the law. I'm sure he'll be amused.

    As for the second impeachment itself, there's as much chance of conviction as there is when a white cop kills a citizen of darker color


    The proportion of those killed by police officers who are 'of a darker color' does not exceed the proportion of the violent criminal population who are 'of a darker color' . That aside, people who get killed by police officers are, with few exceptions, non-compliant, belligerent, and threatening. You know that because the cases propagandists point to are usually lousy as examples of misconduct. Start with Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, George Floyd, and Eric Garner. No police officers should not go to jail because a man in cuffs, told to remain still, toppled over backwards into a metal protrusion which pierced his neck; or because they shot a man who tried to take their duty gun away, ran away, then turned around and charged them; or because they restrained a man who had taken a massive overdose of fentanyl who then died while they were waiting for the ambulance they'd called; or because they tackled a noncompliant suspect in a very ordinary way and that very unhealthy man's body had an eccentric reaction to it.

    If this were an actual social problem, you'd have a plethora of examples, and you have next to none.

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  3. Yes, executive immunity kept it from being a federal court matter.

    That the complaints against the President have been nonsense would in impartial jurisdictions have kept it from be a 'court matter' for very long.

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  4. the twelve-year-olds and the medical professionals in lingerie come to mind. But thanks for mansplaining it for us all, Art

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