• rippersnapper@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    It’s been pretty clear for sometime that in the US laws don’t apply equally to everyone.

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      2 days ago

      There were two immigrant teenagers murdered in NYC the same day as Thompson. Nobody cared in the slightest.

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        Obviously not. As we’ve already ascertained from OP, one murder of a rich is worth more than 23 murders of non-white commoners. A mere 2 non-citizen commoners isn’t going to make them blink an eye.

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        And just think of the media circus if the world didn’t like and support Luigi the more they hear about him, they tried a blitz at first and it just helped Luigis popularity… so this is the silent mode.

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            Yes I know, but (1) most lower court actions and decisions are never reviewed by SCOTUS and (2) it’s not like the lower courts were doing great and every once in a while SCOTUS overturned them. This has long, long been a been a very consistent and pervasive problem in the federal courts. It’s not as simple as “SCOTUS pulls the strings of the lower courts,” quite far from it.

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              I didn’t say they pull the strings. I said they dictate it. They set precedence. Which is huge in the interpretation of law.

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      2 days ago

      Serial killers like Ted Bundy, state charges. Even though he crossed several states. Yet this has federal charges for some reason.