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Out-of-control prosecutor Brandon Pigg (sic) charged manslaughter for co-sleeping. Dubious autopsy. Terrified mom pled guilty. Judge Brent Robinson shocked her w/ 5-yr sentence. Pigg is now going after another mom.
⁦A new front in the war on women. 1/ theappeal.org/babys-death-in…
2/ Linking many systemic criminal/political crises: Ambitious prosecutors abusing power to charge, scaring up pleas, state judges looking for headlines. Demonizing & incarcerating poor women who use alcohol or drugs.
@emilybazelon @JohnFPfaff @RachelBarkow @CBHessick @ProfMMurray
3/ ”Brindle was facing a lengthy sentence when she decided to plead guilty, her lawyer explained. He warned her that a jury trial could yield a worse outcome.”
Judge Robinson wasn’t swayed. “This is what happens when people use drugs.”
Robinson is a former prosecutor.
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Jed Shugerman
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I don’t know why Manafort was put in Rikers solitary while he faces state charges. But I do know that 12 of his 16 state charges violate NY’s double jeopardy law, and ⁦@ManhattanDA⁩ ⁦@CyrusVanceforDA⁩ has never answered for his abuse of power. slate.com/news-and-polit…
NY wisely changed its double jeopardy law to close the pardon loophole, but it applies only to new prosecutions, not ex post facto to Manafort’s.
Yes, he is probably hiding crimes. But he has civil liberties. And goodness, I thought we cared about the rule of law or something.
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Jed Shugerman
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The Empress Has No Clothes.
Like, almost literally.
I’m not trying to skirt around the word literally here...
I guess we can tell who wears the pants in this family.
(Neither, apparently... transparently.)
This tweet is clearly better than mine. I feel like I’ve been dressed down.
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Jed Shugerman
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Court Packing Catch-22:
1. Dems need at least 52 Senate seats to get 50 votes (Forget Manchin, Tester & whomever flips a red state).
2. The more court-packing talk, the harder it is to win those seats.
3. If you don't campaign on it, it's illegitimate.
Cool it with court packing.
4. Here's an even bigger problem: Want to get Trump re-elected?
Campaign on expanding the Court to 15 seats, even if you think you have a brilliant mechanism for making it fair.
How about winning an election or two before trying to overhaul the courts?
At least FDR did that.
5. If you thought I was subtweeting @PeteButtigieg, well, maybe I was. But any Dem candidate who is campaigning on court packing is pandering to the Dem base and is revealing they aren't yet ready for the big leagues. There is a base turnout strategy for 2020, but this ain't it.
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