What we really need: legislation to permit any citizen to force those who they have reason to believe engaged in facilitating sexual predation into court.
Allowing others to file suit relieves survivors of the initial burden.
When there is more than one survivor, it's more likely that actual criminal charges can be successfully prosecuted...
And it isn't just restricted to sexual predators themselves - anyone who helps facilitate or conceal sexual predation is fair game.
Bonus: if multiple individuals who have been covering for serial predators perjure themselves... that lays a pretty solid foundation for RICO.
If you want to put an end to sexual predation for profit, unraveling the networks of those who facilitate their crimes and use their positions of power to maintain the silence of victims, either through risk or reward....
there's no better model than the Texas law.
double bonus:
the act being alleged here is an actual crime according to federal statute - and I believe in all 50 states.
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If SCOTUS decides to 'remain neutral' on abortion rights, they're effectively saying fetuses have no inherent constitutional 'right to life' per the USC.
That means any attempt to outlaw it as such would then be an unconsititutional violations of fully living womens' rights.
The thing is, you can't just willy-nilly restrict the rights of one person - unless you're doing it to ensure someone else's liberty is not impeded.
The only limit to our own liberty exists when it negatively impacts another's liberty.
If SCOTUS "neutrally" deems non-viable fetuses are not guaranteed the same rights & freedoms that a fully realized human adult possesses under the constitution in ALL states,
there can be NO constitutional path to limit the rights of pregnant women to terminate that pregnancy.
The reason the FEC "dropped the ball" for several years?
Because there Was. Not. A. Quorum.
There literally were not enough commissioners to even vote on ANYTHING until May 2020 - because Trump nominated no one.
And the commission was only filled out at the END of his term.
Leaving those seats open ensured that no action would be possible, and that, by stacking the deck at the end of the administration, things could get pushed out past the SOL.
However, I propose that, indeed, the multi-year lack of a quorum is something that should TOLL SOL.
If there are not enough commissioners to make a decision - any decision - it is impossible for a crime to be "discovered" - and statute of limitations explicitly does not start ticking until the crime is discovered.
If there is no ability to prosecute, SOL can NOT expire.
Also... Dennis Hastert's mentor Dallas Ingemunson and his former boss Durston "Buck" Ohse represented the interests of Paul Ricca - aka "the Waiter" aka Paul DeLucia
aka head of the Chicago Outfit
and de-facto brains of the outfit from Capone to Giancana. madisonrecord.com/stories/510719…
Sometime during the 1930s, Ricca bought an 1100 acre farm from the former GOP state representative, C. Hoge (whose original source of wealth was in slavery on the East Coast) in the far southwest part of Kendall County (outlined below), along the Grundy and Lasalle County lines.
And, might I add, the transaction seemed to be at above-market rates for the time period... I can find that data again if needed.
At minimum, both Ohse & Ingemunson handled some of the transactions for that property - and both served as Kendall County States' Attorney.
Correction:
Hastert also suing the man he admitted to molesting when he was a teenage wrestler.
Does anyone else think $3.1M is a really, really high hush money payout for a single instance of assault? Or might there be something else Hastert was hiding? (hint: 👇)
MACSRSHJCDK - which one was it? Or another I'm not thinking of? I have a guess...
But note: "Individual A" did not let that secret out - Jeffrey Epstein did. So you'd best pay up, Denny Boy.
So drop your damn countersuit and pay the man what you owe him.
It's showtime.
p.s. I have no information that suggests there was any attempted extortion on the part of the victim; I do, however, know that a guilty mind is prone to assume someone else knows more than they do, and may cast one's attempt to gain some semblance of justice as extortion.
From pastries 1m long to semiconductors with traces only several atoms wide, Veldhoven, NL home to the world's largest, most insanely delicious appelflappen, and part of the reason for layoffs and skyrocketing car prices.
And made me wonder - wasn't there something about a new semiconductor manufacturing process that the US was preventing the Dutch from shipping to China?