Opinion | Trump’s kid-glove treatment highlights an unequal justice system
Opinion | Trump’s kid-glove treatment highlights an unequal justice system
Poor and minority defendants get far different treatment.
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Lock his ass up and take away his secret service protection but let him keep posting online about the horrors of prison. The maga fucks will suddenly be up in arms for reform.
They will pretend to be at least.
No fucking shit. He's a flight risk. He's intimidating witnesses and judges. If it were a poor person just being a flight risk would land them in custody with no bail.
Perhaps, as they watch Trump maneuver, delay, avoid and outspend prosecutors, Republicans might ponder the fate of those without his resources. If they do, they might rethink their antipathy toward adequate funding of the justice system and their indifference to mass incarceration. And should Trump, who is entitled to the presumption of innocence, wind up in a prison, it might even spark new interest in reforming prisons — where conditions can be frightful.
are you fucking kidding me? these people pride themselves on not critically thinking or caring about other people
Let's be real, in the US there's only an enforcement system, not a justice system.
Meanwhile it's "two-tier" for his supporters because he finally has top face consequences for his criminal behavior.