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Michael, I would like you to address the similar situation with Derek Chauvin's trial. We can all debate his guilt but objectively looking at the trial, he did not get a fair trial.

1. He was refused a change of venue,

2. The judge refused to sequester the jury (even OJ Simpson's jury for sequestered for 265 days),

3. The jury was using social media during the trial

4. One jury member Brandon Mitchell lied to get on the jury about not being at a protest even though his pics later revealed he was at BLM protest with BLM shirt/hat and a "Get Off Our Necks" shirt on.

5. Another juror making her decisions based on a photo which she claimed to show Chauvin with his hands in his pocket as if nobody could stop him - despite this being corrected during the trial that he DID NOT have his hand in his pocket and his black gloves in front of black pants make it look like that but if one looks even for a couple second, they can see his hand isn't in his pocket. This Juror based this on something that not only never happened, but something that even a very cursory review of the video makes clear that it never happened. Source of her interview:

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/derek-chauvin-trial-alternate-juror-lisa-christensen/89-97b74eb1-c875-4ed5-93ad-5c72620b9f18

Exhibit 17:

https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/originals/393864/393864_btiq3vjs1x6fk4x.jpeg

6. Politicians like Maxine Waters were literally threatening if they didn't get a guilty verdict

7. Year long of riots while not changing the venue

8. Politicians including the president stating already making up their minds on guilty verdict before the trial?

9. The judge refused to declare it a mistrial even after all this bs?

All this isn't even referring to the evidence of the trial. We are talking about whether he got a fair trial or not.

If we don't stand up for fair trials for those whom we hate, then we are basically a banana republic.

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OMG, I did not know that all 3 women on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court voted to release. And why did I not know? Because the bias/corrupt liberal-left media chose not to report this absolutely critical fact. Thank goodness I read you and others on Substack. I would be so ill informed if I did not have this resource.

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Keep in mind that among the leaders who advocated and/or voted for the anti-crime legislation of the 1980's and 1990's were people like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and most of the black elected officials of the time.

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Gen'Xer here. I feel like I am in some bad star trek episode where my lefty friends all of a sudden have goatee beards and are attending Bob Jones 'university'... WTF!?!?!

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"So the fact that women were the ones who handed down this decision would seem to pose a problem for Tamblyn & Co. Don’t expect that to even be acknowledged, though. Grappling with contradictions is not necessary per the construct of contemporary left-liberalism."

I'll take a guess - the contradiction is illusory because these women are yoked by a patriarchal court system. Also the law is racist and sexist.

You were one of the few public figures to take Biden seriously as a candidate early on, and you recognized his popular appeal to normalcy while also acknowledging his shift to the cultural left. An event that went almost entirely unacknowledged in 2019 was when he decried the Anita Hill incident as damned by "a bunch of white guys." That was about the composition of the panel. But he didn't stop there: he went on to say, "It’s an English jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture. It’s got to change."

The law itself is white and male! (And English!) And it will indeed change. Unfortunately I'm very pessimistic about this and think in ten years we'll read back on articles like this and wonder how on earth we let this system slip away.

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My tin foil hat does wonder if the Cosby “metoo” had anything to do with him criticizing Obama and the black community culture? We all know what democrats are capable of (Kavanaugh?)

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I would encourage you all to watch Razorfist's latest video on Bill Cosby. He points out several instances of shenanigans during the Cosby trial which should never have been allowed in any "sane" trial:

https://youtu.be/lJvijmbWOvk

Razorfist said on Jun 17, 2019 that it would be overturned on appeal. He was right.

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Michael, a while back, you asked for what we'd like to see covered. I had an idea but held off because I didn't want you risking your neck over a suggestion of mine. But your announced plans were bolder than my idea, so now I'll offer my idea...

Cover the SF shoplifting epidemic. I find that really interesting. I don't know if it's overblown or what, but there have been a lot of changes and store closings. And now there's been a raid of a Neiman-Marcus store. Anyway, just a thought.

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What also makes America great is that the more you can afford a team of good lawyers, the more justice you get.

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The illiberal left is so impatient, with so much certainty, on the right side of history, doing god’s work (minus God), that they forgive themselves for their wild inconsistencies.

I just reread Francis Fukuyama‘s “the end of history”, essay, it was not about this topic but I think he coined the perfect phrase for this illiberal woke moment. They think they’re right, they are certain and they forgive themselves when they gloss over inconvenient details. The old, hard won lessons like free-speech and due process, those old guard rails can be ignored because they have escaped history: they can be trusted they know what to do. The inverse is also true, if you allow those inconvenient details to be debated you fuel the fire of intolerant bigots as evidenced by Trump’s election .The end of history, we know what to do trust us.

I have much sympathy for their upset: Cosby, 60 women, that’s enough for me, he did it. But I prefer due process, the number one lesson of history, governments oppress their people.

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