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These lawyers support your point... Prominent among those challenges: Trump’s efforts to derail the case by daily public attacks—including against Justice Juan Merchan and his family. Despite the pressure, Merchan oversaw as careful and balanced a proceeding as one could imagine. He bent over backw...

I would support a return to an America where our political candidates were not convicted criminals and a majority of Americans viewed criminality as disqualifying for higher office. Then first you’ll need to support a return to fair prosecutors, courts, trials, and judges. From what I observed, thi...

She makes a point that she will not prosecute "low level crimes" which includes Carjacking, auto theft and shoplifting. She stated she does not want to fill the jail with "Black and Brown people." But what she "says" doesn't rise to the level of shooting someone dead.....

A pardon does not mean that the person is innocent, or that he didn’t do what he was convicted of, or that the jury got it wrong. In fact, (I think) a pardon is an act of mercy extended, and one of the conditions of a pardon is that the person excepts his conviction and receives a pardon from the c...

I'm not arguing that she should be pardoned. I couldn't care less. I just disagree with the notion that someone who fraudulently withdrew her own funds from a deferred comp plan and hasn't actually been pardoned for it is the same thing as Abbott pardoning a racist murderer and demonstrates that &q...

Well, of all the convicted criminals in Texas do YOU think that Daniel Perry was most deserving of a pardon? Do you think he was wrongly convicted? Do you think he has shown remorse? It's obviously a political statement. Given that left-wing governors refuse to prosecute left-wing violence and use ...

As a general rule, if you don't have left-wing politics, you'd better fear for your life if you are in a blue city (like Austin) and you find yourself stuck in a violent protest. Democratic and left-wing prosecutors have made it very clear they won't prosecute crimes like fleeing the police, carjac...

Well, a free-for-all open-carry environment will produce these kinds of things... Arbitrary, politically motivated pardon's aren't going to help an already problematic scenario, but many in the USA seem to want this kind of random picking/choosing based on loyalties and other rules of the jungle, ra...

Choose your poison I suppose. Institutional corruption is real for sure, but by and large, I think your institutional assessment is overly cynical (although commonly held on the far right and far left of the political spectrum). That being said, it seems to me that an all-powerful autocrat poses a ...

Some here believe this retired pastor is too partisan... but I'm going to keep linking him because he addresses, through the lens of Jesus and the Bible, the issues that keep coming up on this forum. This recent video very much relates to this question of autocrat vs institutionalist... Here he's co...