Injustice Systems

MalevolentPixy · February 27, 2019, 10:04pm

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chgoliz · February 27, 2019, 10:49pm

I don’t even know what to say.

Wanderfound · February 28, 2019, 12:20am

nimelennar · February 28, 2019, 2:46pm

nimelennar · February 28, 2019, 5:07pm

nimelennar · February 28, 2019, 6:46pm

Apparently, two Supreme Court justices (Thomas and Gorsuch) believe that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a criminal defendant’s right to assistance of counsel doesn’t include a requirement that that counsel be effective.

From SCOTUSblog:

But the most notable aspect of Thomas’ dissent was the final part (joined only by Gorsuch), in which he questioned the Supreme Court’s entire ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisprudence, on original-intent grounds. The Sixth Amendment “as originally understood and ratified meant only that a defendant had a right to employ counsel, or to use volunteered services of counsel,” Thomas stated. Yet the Supreme Court has expanded that concept to include a right to effective counsel — a reading that “little available evidence” supports “as an original matter.” Therefore, Thomas concluded, the “Court should tread carefully before extending our precedents in this area.”

tinoesroho · February 28, 2019, 6:53pm

Both of these “originalists” are cordially invited to go fuck themselves.

Judges are supposed to enact justice, not act as blind, stupid arbiters of the letter of law. The principle of justice matters.

Buuuuuuuuut one of them is also the dude who sided with a company for firing a dude who that company had put in a life and death situation where it was the dude or the goods.

Eat the rich.

Wanderfound · March 1, 2019, 4:00am

Barely any more coherent than Ricky Ray Rector.

MarjaE · March 2, 2019, 10:25pm

MalevolentPixy · March 3, 2019, 8:36am

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chgoliz · March 3, 2019, 6:16pm

Wisconsin_Platt · March 3, 2019, 6:32pm

Thanks, Liz. This is a good read. As a transplant I knew the name and 30,000 ft overview of the case. But…Damn.

I’ll finish reading later. Too keyed up to get that worked up right now.

chgoliz · March 3, 2019, 6:48pm

Yeah, it will NOT help your current mood, that’s for sure.

Just remember, Lori Lightfoot and a number of other electees and runoff electees earned their votes due to standing up to our police corruption. People are using the ballot box to fight back. The arc is bending, finally.

Wanderfound · March 7, 2019, 12:26am

Wanderfound · March 7, 2019, 3:28am

(“folds” = typo for “folks”)

tekna · March 7, 2019, 6:07am

tekna · March 7, 2019, 7:31am

Note, this is a different case from the recent one where a man was killed sleeping with a gun in his lap in his car at a Vallejo Taco Bell.

ChickieD · March 7, 2019, 1:07pm

He doesn’t speak much, but when Thomas does, he is always a giant dick.

chgoliz · March 8, 2019, 3:26pm

Something to point to when someone claims that gun control laws somehow means more shootings (it means the opposite):

Wanderfound · March 9, 2019, 3:13am