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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: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:59:18 -0400
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On 4/28/2025 12:33 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-04-27 10:48 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Maybe to you....

....and, I think, to anyone who anticipates that someday someone they 
care for may stand before such a judge.