#Trump has a huge posse today, including #KashPatel; #GerryKassar, a #conservative party leader in NY; #BernieKerik, fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; #AlanDershowitz, lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & #BorisEpshteyn, legal adviser who was #indicted in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.
This doesn't sound like "restorative justice" - or any kind of #justice.
It sounds like #NYU is seeking to humiliate & disempower its student body by treating them as if they were naughty 6-year-olds caught playing doctor behind the wood shed.
Cross-examination of #MichaelCohen resumes, an opportunity for the defense to poke holes in his testimony & perhaps trip up or provoke the state’s key witness. The questioning of Cohen, #Trump’s fmr fixer, is the beginning of the end of Trump’s #criminal trial, which began April 15 & might conclude before Memorial Day weekend at this pace.
Before entering the courtroom, #Trump potentially violated the #GagOrder forbidding him from talking about prosecutors in the case, other than Bragg. He made what sounded like a reference to Matthew #Colangelo, one of the prosecutors, saying, "a lead person from the #DOJ is running the trial," & baselessly adding, "So #Biden's office is running this trial." Colangelo USED TO work at the Dept of #Justice, & Trump has used similar language to describe him in the past.
#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
These same tweets were among the potential instances of #obstruction of #justice that were reviewed by Robert #Mueller, the special counsel who at the time was investigating the #Trump campaign’s possible ties to #Russia.
At this point in the narrative in 2018, #MichaelCohen was looking for reassurance that Trump was going to take care of him. He would soon lose that sense of security, as the #TrumpOrganization stopped paying some of Cohen’s #legal bills.
L’épouse de l’ancien président français est auditionnée, jeudi 2 mai, dans le cadre de l’enquête sur l’opération «Sauver Sarko», une manipulation médiatique et judiciaire menée en marge de l’affaire des financements libyens.
Le numéro 78/4 des #AnnalesHSS est disponible en ligne (et bientôt dans vos boîtes aux lettres). Au sommaire, 2 dossiers et un train de comptes rendus :
👉 Histoire contemporaines et méthodes interdisciplinaires
👉 Captivité et esclavage
👉 Recensions: race et esclavage
Comment la #formalisation peut-elle enrichir notre compréhension de processus historiques? À partir du cas de l'#épuration dans le monde du #spectacle, l'historienne Karine Le Bail et le mathématicien Julien Randon-Furling déploient, pas à pas, une analyse collaborative d'un mode de #justice spécifique.
👉 L’épuration professionnelle du monde du spectacle à la Libération. #Histoire et sciences #mathématiques
La création d’un délit d’outrage en ligne aux contours très flous, les amendes forfaitaires délictuelles qui vont se ramasser à la pelle et les députés qui devront dire, le 10 avril, s’ils sont toujours du côté de la liberté. C’est le sommaire de ce Pol’Express numéro 73.
"James and Jennifer Crumbley, whose son murdered four classmates and shot seven other people at Oxford High School [Michigan] in 2021, were each sentenced Tuesday to between 10 and 15 years in prison."
NPR reports that some experts think the case "might set a precedent for charging parents with serious crimes because of actions taken by their child."
Les millions du trafic de stupéfiants des cités marseillaises blanchis par des entreprises de la très bourgeoise Aix-en-Provence... Blast plonge dans un dossier judiciaire vertigineux qui détaille et raconte la pénétration du narcocapitalisme dans l’économie…
The Trial, by Franz Kafka.
You are a young man with an important bank job, but one day you are told you are accused of a generic crime, and you must navigate an opaque justice system never knowing what you are accused of, along the way discovering the many who work in or can influence the system to your benefit or detriment, but you are unable to tell if anyone is telling the truth about the system.
Warning: misogyny
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈
FYI, the lottery is a regressive tax disproportionately paid by the people who can least afford it, and little of the proceeds actually go to community funding.
We should fund community services by taxing the rich, not by conning working people into thinking they'll become rich.
@andrew@law 🤔 I think I just read one of the billionaires guilty of insider trading which netted millions may get off with no jail time.
I guess this is more proof of how we have equal justice in America #courts#justice
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess.
You are a near future Beethoven-loving teen hoodlum doing some horrorshow ultraviolence on the local villagers until upstanding citizens show up with their own sort of un-personing thumbscrews to try out on yourself. Warning: extreme misogyny and violence.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
An MNC is the target of a civil claim for its role in #climateChange. It is #Holcim (which bought Lafarge in 2015, just after the bribes to the terrorist organisation "Islamic State").
The Cantonal Court of Zug has ruled "that the court costs and lawyers' fees will be borne by the State."
#TheSaison / The Arab Hunting Season [Amal Oraby, أمل عرابي]
Since the start of the war, every few days right-wing elements identify an Arab of the day, usually well-known figures in their fields, place them in the public spotlight due to a few carefully plucked words, and label them as enemies. The goal is clear: instilling fear and a reminder of whom the masters of this house are.
Since the beginning of the war, the name of an Arab citizen, often a prominent figure in fields such as culture, academia, or medicine, appreciated by the professional community and the Arab public, has been making headlines every week.
Their name does not come up in the context of an article about the beautiful, diverse, and egalitarian Israel, content aimed primarily at audiences abroad for propaganda and public relations purposes. Instead, they find themselves at the center of a media storm, earning them the new title of "terrorist in a suit," "supporter of terrorism," "denier of rape," "anti-Semite," or all of the above.
The circumstances of the events and statements for which these individuals are put on public trial teach us about a recurring and organized strategy of action, which, beyond silencing and persecuting that person, is also intended to send a clear message to Palestinian citizens in Israel.
The campaign of persecution begins in the offices of fascist right-wing organizations, which maintain a target bank that includes the names of Arab researchers, academics, politicians, artists, and opinion leaders. They employ a series of "investigators," "activists," and "coordinators," whose sole purpose is to monitor the target bank, aiming to capture a few seconds of recorded footage, a statement of a few words, or a like that can be latched onto to continue the production line.
At this stage, ordinary Jewish citizens are also involved, voluntarily taking on the task of monitoring every Arab in their vicinity, lying in wait for them with a camera or a finger ready on the screenshot button. Thanks to the public atmosphere, these citizens feel that they are contributing to the home front, strengthening the Jewish nation-state, and may even be entitled to light a torch.
As soon as they manage to find a "suspicious" statement or expression, fascist right-wing organizations, along with fictitious "public organizations" and a series of Knesset members, unleash a flood of inquiries and complaints to a range of official institutions, including employers, law enforcement authorities, official oversight bodies, labor unions, and any entity somehow related to that person. The stated purpose of these letters is to complain about that statement made by the man or woman, but the hidden goal is to intimidate those institutions and exploit the war to redraw the boundaries of who is allowed to speak and what they are allowed to say.
In the days of "together we will win," official and ostensibly state institutions fall into the trap laid for them. At that moment, all principles of proper administration, democratic values, and with them, the rights of that "accused," chief among them the right to defend oneself, evaporate. In an instant, those "prestigious" institutions that boast to the world about values of inclusion and diversity react hysterically like the last talkbaker and rush to dissociate themselves from that person, their words, and their deeds, nullifying their contribution and sending them far away from the public eye.
The Perfect Storm
With the release of the first response from an official body that fell into the trap, the decisive stage of the process begins: the public lynching. On ordinary days, such a lynching would start and end on the accounts of a few nationalist right-wing influencers on social media and an item on Channel 14. However, today, senior journalists and sane opinion leaders with a reputation seek to take part in the fray, and in an act of self-purification, participate in the lynching, fully adopting the fascist narrative and refraining from investigating the facts.
Thus, the perfect storm is created, in which an Arab citizen who turns out to be Palestinian, or simply a person unwilling to accept an ongoing campaign of revenge against everything living and inanimate in Gaza, or the tens of thousands of children starving for bread just beyond the fence, is brought forward. This victim is carefully chosen from among the finest sons and daughters of Arab society because, beyond punishment, this act is intended to deter all others and reward those who pass the Israeli patriotism test.
It is no coincidence that the ever-expanding target bank mostly includes Arabs active in the realms of academia, medicine, law, and the spirit. Because in these spheres, many Arabs manage to excel despite the obstacles in their way, and even surpass their Jewish counterparts who, while running on the paved road, their Arab peers leap over the partition wall to take part in shaping the space. These fields also have the power to shape consciousness, and on the way to establishing a regime of Jewish supremacy, a clear line must be drawn between superiors and inferiors, lest any Arab be confused and think that being a successful doctor, judge, or senior researcher guarantees them equality or protection.
This campaign of persecution has been enjoying dizzying success these days, managing to make significant strides toward purging the public sphere, drawing new ghetto boundaries, and shaping the image of state institutions. This is also due to the resounding public silence from those who, just a moment ago, vehemently opposed any infringement on democracy, individual freedom, and freedom of expression, alongside a growing stream in Israeli society that sees the hunting of Arabs as a national mission and a contribution to the public good.
The next time you hear an Arab's name under the title "supporter of terrorism" or "anti-Semite," try to listen to the hidden message behind the story and ask yourself, "Whose side am I on?" Because in the end, this campaign of persecution is destined to pollute your living environment as well.
Risk tools come to still improve our chances. A study shows:
➤ Risk assessment reduces the likelihood of incarceration for relatively affluent defendants,
➤ Risk assessment increases the likelihood of incarceration for relatively poor defendants.
Sovereign citizen Gobbledygook ( lemmy.world )
Not Facebook but I hope it's okay.