• PorradaVFR@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    While there may well be grounds for Willis to incur professional consequences I still fail to see how her actions would impact the criminal proceedings about which I’ve heard no evidence her romantic decisions affected at all. The prosecutor may have been inexperienced…ok, did he do his job? Yes, AFAIK.

    As with Cannon, he gets leeway everywhere you look. Leeway NOT afforded to others. It’s infuriating.

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      9 months ago

      Yes it shouldn’t be able to derail the case in a just world, I just meant in practice that’s what is happening since it gives him yet another thing to appeal over. He filed an appeal with the Georgia court of appeals to again ask for all charges to be dismissed or for her to be removed from the case as well (which would create an extraordinary delay well past the election). Hopefully the Georgia court of appeals will just quickly knock it down and not delay the trial any more over it. There’s a danger that could happen though. If the Georgia state government goes after her as the case is ongoing who knows. And I agree, he is getting leeway everywhere, treated with kids gloves, appointing his own judges, it’s ridiculous. Even if the supreme court rules against presidential immunity, in practice he and all the judges that have helped him have made a mockery of the rule of law.

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        9 months ago

        Agreed. It’s galling how he’s been able to time and again exploit the system up to and including SCOTUS. Such a disappointment how ineffective it turns out our system of justice is in the face of corruption.