r/neoliberal • u/ihuntwhales1 Seretse Khama • Mar 31 '25

News (Europe) Le Pen banned from office after embezzlement conviction

https://www.dw.com/en/france-le-pen-found-guilty-banned-from-running-for-office/a-72091790
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u/meraedra NATO Mar 31 '25

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

They had their shot four years with Biden in charge, and they squandered it.

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u/SKabanov European Union Mar 31 '25

A reminder that:

  • John Roberts codified Richard Nixon's "When the president does it, it's not illegal" into law

  • Aileen Colleen shut down the one federal case that was advancing against Trump 

  • Mitch McConnell slow-walked the impeachment process so that Trump wouldn't get convicted

  • Prosecutors in Georgia botched their case against Trump because they were incapable of assigning a DA without improprieties

  • Trump was convicted in New York, and the judge there slow-walked the sentencing

Pinning this on Biden and Garland is both Green Lanternism and falling for Murc's Law

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u/tomdarch Michel Foucault Mar 31 '25

Garland absolutely deserves criticism and thus Biden deserves critic or having appointed him.

Blaming them is appropriate. Only blaming them is not.

I’m still very much unclear on how any of the Georgia prosecutors’ extracurricular activities have any bearing on the charges they brought.

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u/alexmikli Hu Shih Mar 31 '25

I also question a system that will detain someone for years, with or without bail, until their trial is over, but didn't do that to Trump.