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To: GIdget2004

Let me guess, the public wasn’t interested enough in the case? Was there no prosecutor willing to take the case?

Our justice system is starting to look like a joke.


7 posted on 08/29/2017 12:18:42 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: VaeVictis
Our justice system is starting to look like a joke.

STARTING?!?!?!

14 posted on 08/29/2017 12:25:30 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu"))
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Looks like conservatives are going to have to cease relying on the Rule of Law, and move to the Rule of Lucille, instead...


18 posted on 08/29/2017 12:31:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: VaeVictis
Let me guess, the public wasn’t interested enough in the case? Was there no prosecutor willing to take the case?

It was a civil case and not a criminal case so there was no prosecutor. And the judges reason for tossing the case was basically absence of malice: "But if political journalism is to achieve its constitutionally endorsed role of challenging the powerful, legal redress by a public figure must be limited to those cases where the public figure has a plausible factual basis for complaining that the mistake was made maliciously, that is, with knowledge it was false or with reckless disregard of its falsity. Here, plaintiff's complaint, even when supplemented by facts developed at an evidentiary hearing convened by the Court, fails to make that showing."

27 posted on 08/29/2017 12:45:08 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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[Our justice system is starting to look like a joke.]

I think we’re beyond “starting” and into “banana republic”.

Doesn’t seem to make much difference if Bill, W or Obama appointed many of them. They’re all leftist dweebs.


56 posted on 08/29/2017 3:00:59 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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