This is how justice actually works. Meanwhile, the US is comparable to a banana republic where you can count on lying and injustice, also a mockery of real justice, being the things that work.
This is how justice actually works. Meanwhile, the US is comparable to a banana republic where you can count on lying and injustice, also a mockery of real justice, being the things that work.
Depends on what you mean by justice. In the US, the law is now merely a tool used to give privileges to the in-group at the cost of the out-group. For the in-group it protects them from harm but never constrains their actions. For the out-group the law never protects them from harm, but constrains them.
In the US, federal prosecutions are ordered by the in-group via public social media posts, rather than by professionals dedicated to the law deciding if there's enough evidence to support a case. Currently, federal prosecutions will never be pursued against the in-group, no matter the evidence.
I'd like the US to return to it's prior stance on what the law means and how it can be used.
This era we'd like to return to, when did it end?
Gradually. The current unholy mess of money being able to legally buy politicians didn’t happen in one specific day or rule.
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So "political opponents" are just untouchable entities then that exist completely outside the law?
It depends whether the jailing and imprisonment is arbitrary or for cause. Any attempt of mounting an insurrection, however harebrained, 100% qualifies as valid reason for a lifetime sentence.
That’s silly criteria, the tyrant will find a cause. “Give me the man and I will give you the case against him." It’s just not a good idea to arrest your political rivals. Trump didn’t arrest Hillary Clinton.
Did Hillary Clinton mount an insurrection? No, she did not. Well, Trump did, and it's legally unforgivable.
Fwiw, Hillary Clinton did sabotage the Democratic party, burning the chances of Bernie Sanders, but that's very different from trying to overthrow an election by force.