https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1499893915431976965
Deputy deserves life. Judge deserves the chair.
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I stand corrected the DA deserves the chair. Given the 2 cases ok with Chair-revival-chair.
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Seems the US is killing a woman next month because of a bogus confession. There is not a single word to describe the proscecutor in the end that wouldnt get me banned.
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It’s really weird how all* these innocent people getting executed are people of color.
*Except the west Memphis three, who seem to be some kind of weird exception. I guess the cops couldn’t find any black people to pin those crimes on.
Nah, you’re good if it’s directed at that asshole. Let it rip.
That’s as close to “Because fuck you, that’s why” as you’ll ever see.
This is actually good but crazy it was what they were doing in all plea deals.
That’s a Reagan judge. The Trump judges will be a real hoot in 30-40 years.
Infuriating that you can say that in the present tense.
Retire FFS.
Georgia law already provided a path for state officials to game the rules before 2020. When an appellate court judge resigned within the six months before an already scheduled election for their seat, the governor appointed someone to the seat and the election was postponed to the next cycle. The practice fits into a long nationwide tradition of incumbents tendering suspiciously timed resignations before an election to install a preferred successor and circumvent the will of voters.
But the dynamic dramatically escalated in 2020. Georgia Republicans established that judges do not even have to vacate their seats before their elections to get them canceled.
Justice Keith Blackwell was set to face Barrow in June when he announced, in the run-up to that election, that he would resign in November, five months after voters were set to decide between Barrow and him. Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger canceled the election as though there was a vacancy, and the state supreme court rejected Barrow’s lawsuit to force an election in a 6-2 ruling.
The pattern has repeated over the past few months. Chief Justice David Nahmias, who wrote the 2020 opinion authorizing this maneuver, and Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher, were meant to be on the ballot in May. Both recently announced that they would retire later this year, after the scheduled election—once again postponing elections and allowing Kemp’s appointments to rule until 2024.
Critics fear the stage has been set for things to get worse. The dissent in the 2020 case warned that nothing in state law seems to prevent judges from rescinding their resignations after the date of a canceled election, leading to a perverse situation where a judge’s promise to vacate their seat could buy them extra years on the bench. The ruling also raised the possibility that, if a justice lost an election and then resigned in the lame-duck period between the election and the end of their term, the governor’s appointment could preempt the election’s result and install a different judge than the election’s winner.
Is a declaration of an intent to resign even binding? If not, then…
Judge Asshat announces a few months before an election he’s going to lose that he intends to resign 5 months after the election.
Governor Dickhead cancels the election, announces it as a vacancy.
Election date passes, Judge Asshat says “You know, upon careful reflection with my family, I’ve decided to continue to serve.”
Chessmate, libtard?
Ah yes the patented “methodological” approach to convincing virulent racist fascists to do things they don’t want to do. Works every time!