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Classic Murc's law. If conservatives wanted to use 1/6 rioters discovering how awful prison is to advocate for comprehensive reform rather than to just advocate for selective impunity, they would just...do that, and nothing liberals say can make them do the former
First, you think that many fewer people should be in prison and sentences should generally be less harsh, THEN you argue that a judge should not act like a Fox News grandpa during a criminal trial, make up your minds!
Strange that during a presidential debate Trump chose to winkingly praise this summary execution rather than seize the opportunity to argue for criminal justice reform and defendant's rights
To state the obvious, “the sentencing guidelines for most crimes should be less punitive” is a criminal justice reform argument. “The sentencing guidelines should not apply to these particular defendants” is not. Guess which version 99% of 1/6 apologists are going with

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I assume that he was able to bring single-payer to Kansas as a minority backbencher though
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