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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal
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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:48:17 -0400
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On 4/27/2025 5:27 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-04-27 4:26 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> On Apr 27, 2025 at 12:48:23 PM PDT, "Rhino" 
>> <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-04-27 1:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>   On Apr 27, 2025 at 9:46:55 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>   On 4/27/2025 9:33 AM, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Toss her in jail and throw away the key.  When judges pick and 
>>>>>> choose
>>>>>>     the laws they will follow while dictating laws for everyone 
>>>>>> else, we
>>>>>>     are officially in a Constitutional crisis.
>>>>>
>>>>>   But would you want a system giving judges no discretion whatsoever?
>>>>   With regard to judges choosing which laws they will follow and 
>>>> which they
>>>>   won't?
>>>>   Absolutely, I'd want to take 100% of that 'discretion' away from 
>>>> them. They
>>>>   shouldn't have it in the first place.
>>> As long as police don't face the requirement to enforce every law in the
>>> book! With the millions of laws at the local, state/province, and
>>> national levels, we'd ALL be in jail or broke from fines in very short
>>> order.
>>>
>>> Just imagine everyone who went 1 mph over the speed limit or who
>>> jay-walked getting a ticket or even jail time if they are a repeat 
>>> offender!
>>
>> Just so long as the cops themselves are held to the same standard.
>>
>>
> A friend of a friend was travelling in the USA and got stopped by the 
> highway patrol for doing 56 in a 55 mph zone. He got a ticket for it. 
> Ironically, Steve was a police officer at the time although obviously 
> off-duty and out of uniform. I asked him about "professional courtesy", 
> where LEOs give each other breaks for small indiscretions but he didn't 
> answer directly. I got the impression it would never have occurred to 
> him to ask. Mind you, this must have been 40 years ago.
> 
> By contrast, one of our Supreme Court justices got into a bit of a 
> scuffle with a local while down in Scottsdale a year or two back. (I'm 
> not saying it was anim and I'm not saying that it wasn't....) He 
> insisted he had done no wrong but the optics were not deemed good for 
> him or the Supreme Court so he soon resigned from the court!
> 
> If Judge Dugan had similar standards, she'd have resigned long ago 
> rather than using her job to aid her "activism".

In a hypothetical, note that "optics" of a drunken brawl are somewhat 
more unseemly than those of a refugee abettor.