• @gAlienLifeform
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    Yeah, I hate Joe Biden as much as anyone who knows his history on criminal justice issues should, but his mistake here was one of negligence.

    The real problem here is

    federal authorities verified that their offenses were nonviolent

    Like, how was this nonviolent? This judge participated in a scheme to kidnap children and if they or their parents resisted they’d have violence inflicted upon them, just because that violence was being done by police officers and the kidnapping was to a jail cell instead of a brothel shouldn’t change anything, but the system can’t help but give a judge the easy white collar criminal treatment

    • TheTechnician27
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      313 days ago

      It’s non-violent when the state does it. Just like “capital punishment”.

    • @AbidanYre
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, I had a very similar argument a couple days ago.

      Nonviolent is not the same as victimless and there are plenty of nonviolent criminals who belong in jail.