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Damn this fucking prosecutor WHO MADE SUCH A DEAL
lawandcrime.com/crime/judge-al…
Notice how the headline blames the judge. The judge is wrong to accept the deal, but judges usually accept deals. The deal was made by prosecutors.
This is a recurring mistake made by the media probably because prosecutors do press releases and judges don't. They take the release at face value and don't pay attention to how the prosecutors shift blame to the judge.
Remember that truck driver in CO who got 120 plus years for an accident? Well, that was because some prosecutor charged him with 27 crimes for one accident. The judge was constrained by minimum sentences. It was the prosecutor, not the judge, who piled on 27 sentences.
And in the stories, the prosecutor expressed shock and how this was excessive and should be addressed with a pardon, etc. But the excessive quality was put in place by the prosecutor's decision to charge 27 felonies

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Mar 3
Our Constitution has many defects, the worst of them being how very undemocratic its amplification of small states is. For that reason, the method of reforming or replacing the US constitution guarantees that a Constitutional Convention would only make things worse.
Each state sends an equal number of people to the ConCon and Republicans control most state assemblies that would be choosing the representatives. We would lose many constitutional protections and gain theorcraccy.
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It's true that racism plays a role in the world's overwhelming response to Ukraine's plight while disregarding Yemen, the Rohingya, and umpteen other catastrophes around the world. Absolutely.

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After WW2, there was hope that we were done with European wars. Of course, there were the Balkan Wars, but they were in a way, civil wars. Intra-familial disputes about the division of Yugoslavia. And of course, they ended up a proxy Russo-Euro conflict in the end.
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don't you think she read Jennie's FB posts?
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She hired a detective to investigate her colleagues but never read Jennie's posts?

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jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
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