• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    Honestly? With the absolute thought crime aspect and the way the plea deal was handled, I don’t blame him one bit. There’s no public interest in locking up Hunter Biden.

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      There’s no public interest in locking a lot of people up, yet they still do.

      Rules should be applied equally, regardless of who you or your parents are.

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      Yeah, I don’t see any public interest involved at all when it comes to the issue of presidents using their power to get their relatives off jail time. I don’t think it undermines the sense of justice and equality that all citizens are supposed to have if the “first among equal citizens” can get their crackhead middle ages son off of already lenient legal consequences for actions that others are serving hard time for. Not at all a conspicuous legal hole that undermines the concept of the rule of law, and definitely not open to abuse.

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        That was part of the problem. The judge bowed to political pressure and rejected a completely normal plea deal to throw the book at the guy instead.

        If you ask me the pardon power isn’t used nearly enough.

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          Judges do that all the time. Hunter Biden was the 50+ year old son of one of the most powerful people in the country. Not some 22 year old street kid from a poor district.

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              Actually judges can and should call foul on plea deals that are poorly worded so as to allow future violations of tax law.

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                A violation is a violation. A plea deal can’t make a future act not a crime. That’s completely nonsense.

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                  Exactly, which is why the judge objected to plea deal. Are you following now?

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      There’s no public interest in locking up Hunter Biden.

      Nonsense. Theres a massive public interest in a privileged member of the political elite being held to the same legal standards and to the same due process as you and me.

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        That’s not the same legal standards. Tax charges that the IRS bends over backwards not to use and gun charges that are literally thought crime and also very rarely used.

        This was the witch hunt the GOP cries wolf about. The original thing they were looking for was Ukrainian money deals.

        For anyone else the IRS would have had a payment plan and the gun charges would have been a plea deal. But we go from politically motivated investigation to politically motivated judge rejecting the plea deal

        What about this is the same due process we would have?