• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You just haven’t realized it until recently when it has become a hot topic and now it is easier to blame Republicans, but overlook everything else.

    They’ve been more shameless about it. As in this case, where they’re pretending that obstructing a government proceeding applies only to documents, and where you’re pretending that anything other than ignoring the statute entirely requires enshrining guilt by association into law.

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        7 months ago

        I’m not sure how or whether you gather that they are pretending that obstructing a government proceeding only applies to documents

        Because I actually read the article instead of immediately being like “buh whuubut BLM?!??!?!”

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            7 months ago

            It’s in the article that you ignored because you’d rather demonize BLM. Don’t bother me again.

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                7 months ago

                Not it isn’t

                From the article you will never read:

                His attorney argues that Congress intended the obstruction law to apply only to instances where defendants tampered with physical evidence, such as destroying or forging documents used in proceedings.

                The court is sympathetic to this bullshit argument. Since it’s not demonizing black people, you ignored it.

                Have a good pipedream

                Expecting you to quit whatabouting for Trump’s inbred violent minions is a bit of an unrealistic expectation, yes.

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                    7 months ago

                    Where do you gather that the court is sympathetic to the argument?

                    You’ve admitted they’re illegitimate already. They’re sympathetic to any argument as long as its application yields results Republicans want.

                    The justices are literally questioning the other components of the same law which clearly involves more than documents.

                    Because they want to limit the scope of the law to documents only. Why would they question the part of the law they want to keep?