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I'm all for it. Let's have discovery, let's shine a light on this stupidity.
Exactly. Like Republicans in 2020 wouldn’t bring any election denial claims to court cause the had no actual evidence
But they did bring them to courts. There were over 60 lawsuits and only successfully proved something like 20 fraudulent ballots, in one audit, across all of them. Nearly all of them were thrown out due to a lack of evidence. Pretty sure these are the things that got Rudy disbarred.
There’s always fraudulent ballots, though, and from my understanding, they are always looked into. That stuff is unrelated to the conspiracy theory stuff his team of “lawyers” were pushing out. They would claim things in the media and then never bring them up in court.
No repercussions for lying to the public, unfortunately. But grave consequences for lying to a judge, at least in the past. Who knows why...
These folks never change their views after a court case disproves something. They just assume some sort of deep state is in bed with “big pharma” - even if acetaminophen is a low cost and not a big money maker.
Assuming the process functions normally and doesn't become political theatre.
Excellent joke, good sir!
You have a lot of faith in a jury system that has historically been terrible at evaluating scientific claims.
Discovery happens well before the jury is seated.
Yes, but the light isn't really shined for the public until the verdict.
Well... here ya go.
We will never get the justice we want through procedure, legal argument and old-guard political players.
We only get the world we want through unified efforts to restructure politics from the ground up. Fuck Texas, let them rot and wallow in dark-ages mythology. While they're spinning their wheels trying to make shit like phrenology and miasma theory work with modern systems, we can make our own communities shining beacons of reason if we work hard enough together.