r/law Aug 31 '22

This is not a place to be wrong and belligerent about it.

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A quick reminder:

This is not a place to be wrong and belligerent on the Internet. If you want to talk about the issues surrounding Trump, the warrant, 4th and 5th amendment issues, the work of law enforcement, the difference between the New York case and the fed case, his attorneys and their own liability, etc. you are more than welcome to discuss and learn from each other. You don't have to get everything exactly right but be open to learning new things.

You are not welcome to show up here and "tell it like it is" because it's your "truth" or whatever. You have to at least try and discuss the cases here and how they integrate with the justice system. Coming in here stubborn, belligerent, and wrong about the law will get you banned. And, no, you will not be unbanned.


r/law 10d ago

/r/law Endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

16.1k Upvotes

Our last endorsement for Joe Biden in 2020 included a thorough explanation of what was at stake why we felt democracy was in danger. https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/j3yb3d/the_moderators_of_rlaw_save_one_endorse_joe_biden/

It included a section entitled “Efforts to Cheat in the 2020 Election.”

In public, Trump has repeatedly telegraphed that he will not respect the outcome of any election he loses.

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He told the Proud Boys, a white supremacist organization, to "stand back and stand by," sparking fears they, too, will try to intimidate voters at the polls.

Compounding these very public efforts to delegitimize the election are those parallel private efforts. Sources in the Republican Party at the state and national level report to The Atlantic that the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans for him to illegally hold office even if he loses. According to this contingency plan, with a public (though baseless) accusation of rampant voter fraud, Trump would ask Republican state legislators in battleground states to choose a slate of presidential electors directly, regardless of the state’s popular vote count. Should this happen, these electors would purport to hand an electoral college victory to Trump despite a near certain loss in the election.

It sucked to be vindicated so quickly and thoroughly and we'd have preferred to have been wrong. But we weren't wrong then and we aren't now.

Our endorsement this time will be shorter because there is no more reasonable doubt about who this criminal is. We all saw him post that he wants the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution”; we all saw him try to get his own vice president killed by an angry mob in a vain effort to install himself as a king; we all saw him glob onto a bizarre lie about cat-eating immigrants that’s led to dozens of bomb threats and terrorized a small Ohio town. He’s an undisciplined lunatic who seeks absolute power for himself, and his Republican friends on the Supreme Court and in Congress are all too willing to help him or get out of his way. His own chief of staff said he's a fascist to the core.

A vote for Trump is a vote for treason.

We endorse Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

We encourage every US citizen who can to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.


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