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question everything

(47,465 posts)
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 12:59 PM Mar 2022

Will never happen. Still: Dear Senator Hawley, in case you missed that part of this country legal

system, each defendant is entitled to his/her day in court, regardless of how heinous the crime was. Defendants who cannot afford an attorney to represent them are served by public defenders who follow the same guidelines.

(And I am not a legal maven, far from it)




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Will never happen. Still: Dear Senator Hawley, in case you missed that part of this country legal (Original Post) question everything Mar 2022 OP
That's a bedrock legal principle of our system Mad_Machine76 Mar 2022 #1
And this is why he refers to Judge Jackson as "soft on crime," "defending sex offenders" question everything Mar 2022 #2
Every time he says or does something stupid, hateful, or traitorous Diamond_Dog Mar 2022 #3
the interrogating morons should just cut to the chase... agingdem Mar 2022 #4
I hope Hawley has his day in court cojoel Mar 2022 #5

Mad_Machine76

(24,402 posts)
1. That's a bedrock legal principle of our system
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 01:04 PM
Mar 2022

so is, innocent until proven guilty, something that he's probably not to keen on either.

question everything

(47,465 posts)
2. And this is why he refers to Judge Jackson as "soft on crime," "defending sex offenders"
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 01:11 PM
Mar 2022

I hope that at least another senator will call him on this.

Judge Jackson herself is too classy to tell him.

Diamond_Dog

(31,963 posts)
3. Every time he says or does something stupid, hateful, or traitorous
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 01:14 PM
Mar 2022

I think of the fact that Claire McCaskill lost to this utter turd. Ugh

agingdem

(7,840 posts)
4. the interrogating morons should just cut to the chase...
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 01:18 PM
Mar 2022

say it out loud ...she is a black woman...qualifications be damned...

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