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[-] FPSkra@lemmy.world 477 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I spent 3 years and half a million dollars getting a law degree...and it make me feel good to know that everything I learned there doesn't actually fucking matter. All I needed to learn was that if you are appointed by an authoritarian Cheeto, the law is what you make it.

[-] VubDapple@lemmy.world 178 points 4 months ago

"The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty." - David Frum

[-] FPSkra@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

You pretty much learn this, but then you find your way into camp A that attempts to hold up this system, or Camp B where you attempt to use this system to destroy itself....Camp B is struggling right now.

[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 96 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I have a friend who had a case before Cannon and told me that she was both one of the stupidest and the meanest judges she's ever dealt with, which is saying something since she practices primarily in Florida. As a representative of the caliber of judges the Federalist Society has to offer, Cannon is pretty damning... and if we get four more years of Trump, the federal bench is going to be stacked with jurists even worse than her.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

2016-2020 - how far can I go placing terrible judges that'll do my bidding

2024 - damnit, I could have gone even further the first time.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago

We are dangerously close to an emperor has no clothes moment in regards to the rule of law. When people digest that the law is whatever it needs to be to suit the needs of the moment, they'll operate as if there is no law and they'll be right. I fear we are already past the point of no return.

All for Donald fucking Trump.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

When the supreme law of the law, the Constitution, is nullified the Great American Experiment ceases to exist - we are there. The war has already begun.

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago
[-] teft@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Cheetoh Benito or Mango Mussolini or Il Douche

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've been collecting names for the bastard for awhile. We have...

Adolf Twitler

Benedict Donald

Cheeto Benito

Cheeto In Chief

Cinnamon Hitler

Comrade Cheetolino

Con-Hair

Despot Cheeto

Diaper Don

Draft Dodger Don

The Fanta Menace

Hair Fürher

Il Douche

King Mierdas

The Manchildian Candidate

Mango Mussolini

Orange Julius Caesar

President Gold Man Sucks

Prima Donald

Pumpkin Pinochet

Tangerine Toddler

Tangerine Tyrant

Trumplethinskin

Tweeto Toupee'to

The White Pride Piper

I'm totally going to jail for this if he gets reelected.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The Fanta Menace has a certain ring to it

[-] Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Führer

ftfy. Alternatively, you can write it as

Fuehrer

Solid list though!

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Got it fixed, thank you!

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

King Mierdas gave me a giggle.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

Pumpkin Pinochet and President Gold Man Sucks were new to me. Nice collection.

Is there away to fit “Out of his element Donnie” in there?

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 months ago

I was wondering how much this Trump fuckery is going to effect legal precedent since precedent seems to matter quite a lot in the legal system. Or do you think most judges are going to straight up just say Trump gets more legal rights so precedent set by him doesn't matter?

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago

They don't give a shit about precedent. They are fascists appointed by an insurrection leader. They will make decisions that benefit Christian nationalism without regard to anything else.

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago

They're not the only Judges though. If a otherwise normal judge was given an argument in court that brought up the precedent Trump set, laws start to fall apart. I'm worried that many laws will become almost unenforceable no matter who the judge is.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

That's a goal. Laws should only be enforced if it is against a member of the out group.

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

Members of the out group are allowed to argue precedent too, and like I said not every judge is going to be a fascist, so I'm still worried many laws are going to be unenforceable against anyone.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

not every judge is going to be a fascist

For now

[-] FPSkra@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

The problem is the backboard that was a rational supreme court no longer exists.

[-] FPSkra@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

I suggest listening to the podcast Strict Scrutiny. They do a fantastic job of breaking down the way the current Supreme Court has just thrown out nearly every well established precedent. And it pretty much is based upon their own individual ideology and not based on any logical interpretation of the constitution.

[-] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Precedent is dead thanks to chevron overturned. Supreme court took a massive shit on it

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

So much for the legitimacy of our courts and laws

It's almost like Clarence Thomas is acting in the best interests of a foreign power trying to attack and ruin our country

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

the law is what you make it.

Did you thought law was somehow divine before? Laws were always made to serve those who rule since their inception.

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