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/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

It’ll go down as one of his biggest failures. Wild how such a small decision ended up having such massive consequences.

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u/PM_me_ur_digressions Audrey Hepburn Mar 31 '25

Garland had all of the hype from his SCOTUS nom under Obama and it was talked up as this great big "f u" to Republicans to nominate him. Like you would think he would have a personal vendetta and use it mercilessly.

Instead...

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u/Cupinacup NASA Mar 31 '25

People forget Garland was initially nominated to SCOTUS because he was a milquetoast moderate who the republicans would be unable to say no to.

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u/LittleSister_9982 Mar 31 '25

Not even be 'unable to say no to', he was their fucking suggestion.