US Politics

[Jimenez]

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize​

I love it.

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Also (you forgot to conveniently add BTW) that nominations closed last January

 

[silvertop]

When the prosecutors were gunning for DT, there were pages and pages of outrage at abuse by the criminal justice system for politically motivated prosecutions etc. (and not all, I accept, without some justification).

Now DT is going hell for leather to bring what he openly admits to being retaliatory prosecutions against those who went for him. This includes conspiring to sack any prosecutor (who will, quite rightly, not touch the charges with a barge pole) and replacing them with lawyers who have no criminal law experience but who are aligned to his cause and will do whatever he tells them to do.

This from a man who complained that the prosecutions against him were (wait for it) "politically motivated"

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I am not sure it is possible to get a more blatant abuse of power as this weaponizing the criminal justice system for personal causes. In this country you have to go back to the Tudor Monarchs and before.

Yet no comment on here. Perhaps my mentioning it will result in me being accused of "victim blaming"?

 

[Teddy Eagle]

When the prosecutors were gunning for DT, there were pages and pages of outrage at abuse by the criminal justice system for politically motivated prosecutions etc. (and not all, I accept, without some justification).

Now DT is going hell for leather to bring what he openly admits to being retaliatory prosecutions against those who went for him. This includes conspiring to sack any prosecutor (who will, quite rightly, not touch the charges with a barge pole) and replacing them with lawyers who have no criminal law experience but who are aligned to his cause and will do whatever he tells them to do.

This from a man who complained that the prosecutions against him were (wait for it) "politically motivated"

😗

I am not sure it is possible to get a more blatant abuse of power as this weaponizing the criminal justice system for personal causes. In this country you have to go back to the Tudor Monarchs and before.

Yet no comment on here. Perhaps my mentioning it will result in me being accused of "victim blaming"?

Would have thought the key word here is "retaliatory". They went for him now he's going for them. Whether he's right to do that is another matter but did anyone expect any other response?

 

[silvertop]

Would have thought the key word here is "retaliatory". They went for him now he's going for them. Whether he's right to do that is another matter but did anyone expect any other response?

It's the only matter. Otherwise, it is the normal operation of the criminal justice system.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

It's the only matter. Otherwise, it is the normal operation of the criminal justice system.

Isn't it the normal operation in American politics anyway? Democrats and Republicans usually go for after each other don't they?