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I Wonder if the Tools of Justice Work Equally Well in Both Directions … Politically Speaking
It definitely won’t, mind you, but this could lead to some interesting discovery:
Louisiana Supreme Court rules BLM organizer can be sued by people injured during riot
Oh, the irony:
…the lawsuit is predicated on other current legal precedents set by the governmental Jan 6 committee…
Not that the investigative types make any habits of following the leads I provide, but I’d sure like to see the electronic communications between organizers like this from the various cities involved and certain powerful and/or connected individuals in the DC area on and about the dates of the most publicized rioting. But that’s just me…
Carry on.
Published in General
Don’t take me too seriously on that…we know they can track down anyone who farted within a mile of Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 but they still haven’t located the guy who used his cell phone while purposely leaving video footage of himself planting two (now forgotten) pipe bombs in the area on Jan. 6. If you wonder why, then you just aren’t paying attention.
I don’t hold out much hope for the cop’s lawsuit against the BLM thug-whisperer. It is definitely uphill. Barring some language urging the violence that occurred or some other definitive action, it is a tough case.
No real hope at all…just thinking out loud how nice it would be if the process(es) would expose more of the rot.
As a former and now-retired ( insert smiley-face here!) member of the Louisiana Bar whose practice was located in Baton Rouge I will venture an opinion on this interesting scenario. First, when I saw the post with the headline mentioning the Louisiana Supreme Court, which is situated in New Orleans, I first thought the suit might have been filed in Orleans Parish (County to all you non-Napoleonic Code folks) in which, considering the demographics of that Parish, the plaintiff’s chances of winning a verdict against anyone even remotely associated with BLM, Antifa, the Democrat Party, and the generally deeply corrupt City Government in that city would be precisely zero (or less, if there is such a number). However, upon opening up the link, I recalled the suit as being filed in East Baton Rouge Parish. Thus, I must revise my estimate of the plaintiff’s chances as somewhere between 1% and 2%.
By the way, contrary to the message of a post I saw recently, one does not, repeat not, need to have a law degree to express these, or any other, opinions. Reading the New Orleans and Baton Rouge newspapers and news sites will more than suffice.
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Just the fact that the chances of this lawsuit going anywhere is between one and 2% according to a very wise and long-term member of the Louisiana bar, goes to show how corrupt it our legal system is today. I can only say that I am very very sad.
Even if the current chances of success on a particular case are slim, it is useful to remind the gander that the rules they seek to apply to the goose could be turned against the gander. In the national government we finally got rid of the awful “special counsel” statute that Democrats always used against Republicans they didn’t like only after a few Democrats started getting
persecutedinvestigated under that statute.It’s almost as if progressives have always been the only ones who can get things done, but conservatives applying the law equally moves progressives back into their pen .
Maybe we should do that more. Now to get the status quo Rs on board.
Jim George:
Thus, I must revise my estimate of the plaintiff’s chances as somewhere between 1% and 2%.
One can always hope. Couldn’t the information gained in discovery lead to other suits in other jurisdictions?
Hm. I wonder if they can also change the death toll after the fact based upon the emotional distress the rioting caused. Any business owner that ended up with depression or PTSD after the riots or committed suicide should probably be able to sue as well.