• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The Democratic governor has publicly questioned whether the state has the authority to regulate federal law enforcement

    My guy - you’re just the governor; not a judge. You don’t have to do the fascists’ job for them.

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      The quote:

      “We have a bill — we’re looking at the constitutionality of it,” Newsom said. “It appears we don’t have the legal authority for federal agents, but we do for other law enforcement authorities. There’s some amendments being made in the bill and our legal team’s looking at it.”

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          Because he wants to run for president and basically doesn’t want to alienate anyone except the super die hard Trump supporters he couldn’t win anyway. For everything else he’s spineless and a career politician

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            Cool, because everything he says isolates the progressive base that he is going to need to win. Newsome will get absolutely pummeled in any national elections

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              The last few elections have taught them that they don’t need to win over the progressives. They need to capture that centrist/center-right majority that are looking for a reason to ditch the Republican Party. I expect they’ll lean into that in the mid-terms and in 2028.

              [I wish I could end this with /s.]

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                Yet they and all their blue MAGA fanatics attack every leftist who criticizes them and/or refuses to support them cause “you not supporting us will cause us to lose and the fascists to win!!!” ignoring that libs are also vile fascist trash.

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                It’s like the lesson they learned was to run a white guy to win over the misogynistic racist voting block.

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          Because he wants to make explicitly clear that he is a good guy who plays by the rules, ignoring the fact that the bad guys are currently writing the rules so the good guys will allways loose.

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        18 hours ago

        I hear diy law enforcement is now ok. Just modify the bill to let any concerned citizen file suit. Let the gestapo deal with millions of pesky lawsuits

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            Delayed justice is no justice. That’s the strategy being used by Trump for ages. What Newsom should do is to enforce a bunch of state laws anyway, let the courts pile up, keep delaying them, become president, and dismiss those lawsuits.

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              Justice is always delayed, that’s what separated the rule of law from mob justice. Jurisprudence means the careful dissection of the evidence to build a case worth proceeding with. The law is very specific about these things. Just because you don’t exist under the rule of law anymore doesn’t make that not true.

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                And nothing stops evil people from abusing the system. They do a bunch of crimes and use the advantage from said crimes to gain leverage over their case, like paying for good lawyers, bribing the jury, or even owning the entire justice system. Like, for them, criminal cases are investments.

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                  Yup. Laws are for the poors. Doesn’t mean we can’t demand better, especially when heinous crimes are exposed. Shame the fuck out of those fuckers.

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              I never said don’t try anything. I’m just saying this particular tactic is highly unlikely to do anything but overwork a few court clerks.