Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal Alien Escape ICE Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:59:18 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:59:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f6a1ef12e996dce64d7f9767f64bce9c"; logging-data="3896325"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX182KWLCg8MWngHQ3YykMFQ2YpLjQc9gb3A=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:8RZsRQ+VV6O6NY7A4d7KIXArV6I= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: 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" >>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2025-04-27 1:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>   On Apr 27, 2025 at 9:46:55 AM PDT, "moviePig" >>>>>> 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.