This brings the inevitable problem that the sitting judge he just arrested has to go in front of another judge now. What that judge does in response to such a blatant abuse of power will low-key decide the future of the country.
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I'm going even odds the case gets dismissed or a grand jury laughs at it.
That still leaves a 50% chance that a judge has to take this case up. On its start to SCOTUS and maybe the Dred Scott decision of our time.
No, it won't. Quite the opposite, in fact: It will bring in a new order - one that is alien to the nature of America. It will be the beginning of an absolute monachy, unfettered by law, in which the whims of the king are all. What next, when America's king is a doddering fool, a rapist, and a fraud?
I don't think you get that many of us are prepared to not obey. The real question is which side the military will be on. Cops and ICE will likely be the solder's on the front line defending fascism.
I expect that it would not be so simple, nor would it be clean. If an insurgency occurs, then it will be complicated, confused, and tragic: There will be no front lines. The word "guerrilla" dates from the time of the Napoleonic Wars; its history makes for disquieting reading, but it would apply to
one possible outcome of these events. Nobody should be eager for things to fall out that way: only the mad want to be touched by such events, and only the callous want to watch from afar. If police (or, even worse, the army) fire on protestors? See more history: Northern Ireland after Bloody Sunday.
No it won't be simple, we are under no delusion that resisting fascism will be easy. Nor do I expect it to be clean, I expect violence, which is always messy, but sometimes necessary. We will all have to adapt to the changing conditions.
That's true, and I also hope that civil resistance is enough - that you don't have to adapt to violence. That process is an unhappy one, and the results are often a burden. (But then, the existence of Veterans' Administration suicide hotlines means that you probably already know that.)
Too many, but with a few willing to stand it will give courage to others, after one must understand, its always possible YOU are next, so if you're going anyway, may as well be on your own terms.
You're talking about political anarchy. That is not the anarchy Im talking about. I'm talking about the bastardized version that just means chaos and disorder.
I have a feeling we’re about to find out that the court system can, in fact, get people released with amazing speed when it’s one judge looking at the imprisonment of another judge. Just a hunch.
Sounds like the matter will be thrown to a grand jury and they'll probably throw it out pretty fast - and then neither Patel nor Bondi will apologize. Trump's justice department is scum from top to bottom.
That's a claim about DA's, not federal prosecutors and frankly, local folk (anywhere) don't like the Feds acting like they've discovered some new way your local judges are wrong.
Especially when it's going to be a Milwaukee *Division* jury, not a Milwaukee *County* jury. Jurors could be from rural/exurban counties around Milwaukee
But evidence is evidence and truth is truth. I do believe a grand jury would throw this out. There’s a reason they didn’t do it first. Now that doesn’t mean they won’t still prosecute. Remember Durham did and lost
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America????
That still leaves a 50% chance that a judge has to take this case up. On its start to SCOTUS and maybe the Dred Scott decision of our time.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250425161325/https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/04/25/fbi-investigating-allegations-that-milwaukee-judge-helped-an-immigrant-avoid-ice-arrest-dugan/83250128007/
Your country is heading very quickly toward summary justice (without justice)
If you think about it, it will be too late
(But, sure, among other things, state and local elections.)
Given Americans’ selfishness and apathy, I’m not betting on it.
https://theonion.com/judge-gives-trump-administration-3-days-to-return-her-from-el-salvador-prison/