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    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.

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      “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

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        Cheetoh Benito or Mango Mussolini or Il Douche

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          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.

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      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?

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        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.

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          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.

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              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.

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        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.

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

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      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

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      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.