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FBI Arrests MI Republican Candidate for Governor — Over Jan 6 Protest
I’ve done a little digging about this story: here’s the video on YouTube.
Michigan is having a lively Republican primary. The FBI arrested one of the contenders at his home and the local news, of course, broadcast pictures of his home showing the street number.
He was arrested for something like remaining in a public building without the King’s warrant. Hard to tell. It’s a misdemeanor.
He needs to run for federal office if he wants to use candidacy as a defense — works for Democrats. Most of the comments on the YouTube video are pretty good.
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What kind of cheese?
I worry that “the rule of law” is dying, but I think if you ask lawyers, many (particularly the younger ones) would not agree. But what they call “the rule of law” is different from what has traditionally been defined. A disturbing number of modern legal commentary considers it within “the rule of law” to treat different categories of people differently, or to require conformance to certain ideological beliefs before being able to invoke rights or duties under “the rule of law.” Several lawyers’ groups have changed (in practice, though often not in explicit word) the tradition that lawyers have ethical obligations to represent all people into a requirement that lawyers should refuse to represent people with unpopular political or social views.
“The rule of law” is turning into the rule of the powerful. But the powerful are being careful to keep a shell or mantle that sort-of looks like “the rule of law.”
Should have eaten a banana.
Social Justice is poison.
They talked to Ray Epps. He said he wasn’t an insurrectionist, and that was good enough for Adam.
How did that hammerhead ever get elected? How did he get reelected?
Other than the Civil War Republicans haven’t been effective since they were Whigs, and weren’t even effective then. Lincoln himself was a great Progressive,as were all of his successor Republican Presidents except Coolidge and, with caveats, Reagan (he was an FDR New Dealer until he learned what Communists were up to-same as Democrats are up to now—when he was head of SAG). Two of the three Progressive Presidents of the Progressive era were Republicans—three of the four if you toss in McKinley. The Republican Party has always been a Milque toast Progressive Party, however much their failed candidates have been Libertarian (Goldwater).
As if on cue:
https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/997306.pdf
Wow. Just the first couple of pages told me what I need to know. We’re going to have to chisel the blindfolds off all our justice statues.
Silly me, I went all the way through to look for a dissent.
It’s really bizarre to have fought to remove the unequal treatment of minorities from our governance so they wouldn’t be 2nd class citizens only to have it put back in under pretense of equity while really, it’s to subject the majority to second class status.
My thoughts exactly.
On January 6th, the vast majority of people who protested stayed outside of the Capitol and did not engage in violence. Does Gary want them arrested?
Of those who entered the Capitol, most appear to have wandered around the Capitol, which is at worst a simple trespass. Does Gary want them arrested, rather than ticketed?
The problem with the J6 committee is that it is not even slightly interested in investigating why the systems involved failed. The Capitol Police are not up to the standard of any major city police department, with no independent investigation of shootings. Part of my job is investigating incidents, and this outrages and disgusts me. Do they think that there will never be raucous protests at the Capitol again? Given how they are running the place, you would think they would be more concerned.
I just hope that this does not spread to other investigative bodies in the government. “NTSB officials have released their report into the plane crash. They blame the crash on the fact that the pilot was Republican and voted for Trump.”
Yes.
Yes.
I’ve asked Gary to lay off on this thread, and it looks like he has. There are many (many) places around here where you can find what he thinks about Trump, 1/6 and so forth. No need to do so here.
DC docket:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63379230/united-states-v-kelley/
Statement of facts:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.244261/gov.uscourts.dcd.244261.1.1.pdf